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Rare Rides Icons: The Cadillac Eldorado, Distinctly Luxurious (Part II)

The Truth About Cars

We began our journey through 50-plus years of the Cadillac Eldorado last week. Conceived as a new high-end convertible in the years leading up to the personal luxury car, the Series 62 Eldorado “sports convertible” wore unique sheet metal to all other Cadillac models in 1953. The smallest of the three was Buick’s Roadmaster Skylark.

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GM developing Wi-Fi Direct driver assistance systems for wireless pedestrian and bicyclist detection

Green Car Congress

General Motors researchers are developing a driver assistance feature potentially capable of detecting pedestrians and bicyclists on congested streets or in poor-visibility conditions. —Nady Boules, GM Global R&D director of the Electrical and Control Systems Research Lab. Wi-Fi Direct devices work. Wi-Fi Direct basics.

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No more “Tesla Killers:” It’s becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish the “EV market” from the mainstream auto segment

Teslarati

A look at how veteran automakers Ford and General Motors fared in 2021 would show how a notable degree of focus and seriousness in electric vehicles may positively or negatively affect an automaker’s numbers in the current auto environment. sales: -42.9% #Buick : -34.8% #Cadillac : -47.8% #Chevy : -44.7% #GMC : -37.7%

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

" In other words, General Motors is going to lose its shirt until the Volt establishes itself in the marketplace. GM says it is already looking ahead to the next generation of Volt-based vehicles — it unveiled the Cadillac Converj concept in January — and says costs will come down as the technology spreads to more models.

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