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

The Truth About Cars

As we learned in our last installment , the Cadillac lineup was revised visually for 1957, and would be revised again in 1958 once quad headlamps became legal. But styling and lineup changes weren’t the only new features in 1957: Cadillac was also eager to tout its Standard of the World engineering, safety, and engine advancements!

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

The Truth About Cars

We’re back with more Cadillac Eldorado today, in our final entry on the third generation models. We spent our last installment reviewing the special and sometimes troublesome engineering that was standard on the Brougham. Now legal in all states, all Cadillacs adopted them immediately.

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

The Truth About Cars

The second generation Cadillac Eldorado was met with immediate sales success after its repositioning from a halo vehicle to a more affordable upmarket trim package in 1954. The entire Cadillac lineup was restyled and slightly modernized for the 1958 model year. & The most expensive standard four-door in 1957 was the Series 75.

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Driving Dystopia: Automakers Are Selling Your Driving Data to Insurance Companies

The Truth About Cars

While some brands were found to be entering into less egregious behavior than others, all were cited as failing to reach the most basic threshold for meeting Mozilla’s Minimum Security Standard. There have even been instances where drivers were tracked by features they hadn’t even activated — such as GM’s OnStar Smart Driver.

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UC Davis ITS study suggests hastening consumer adoption of plug-ins will require innovation on the sales side

Green Car Congress

The SSI study captures 12 different PEV models from eight vehicle manufacturers, including GM (Chevrolet Volt); Nissan (LEAF); Tesla (Model S); Ford (Focus EV, C-Max Energi and Fusion Energi); Honda (Fit EV and Accord PHEV); Toyota (Prius Plug-in and RAV4 EV); Mitsubishi (i-MiEV); and Daimler (Smart Fortwo ED).

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

Cars That Think

million; by those cockeyed standards, the SF90 is a relative bargain. A hybrid Chevrolet Corvette is expected to deliver about 662 kW (900 hp), even as its GM parent readies a 1,014-hp GMC Hummer EV. Some luxury brands, including Cadillac and Lotus, plan to do just that. second , a significant edge on this tight, 2.99-km

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Proposed Changes to Federal EV Tax Credit – Part 4: Chinese-Assembled Vehicles Will Not Be Eligible for Tax Credit

EV Adoption

According to SupChina.com , the 10 largest EV producers in China based on domestic sales are: Tesla BYD SAIC Motor SAIC Volkswagen SAIC-GM-Wuling NIO Xpeng Li Auto WM Motor Geely. Some industry observers I spoke with are dubious that either of the Kandi models will actually obtain US government safety standards approval.