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1950 Cadillac Series 62 Coupe de Ville Cadillac Coupe de Ville badging. The name "DeVille" is derived from the French de la ville or de ville meaning "of the town". [1] In French coach building parlance, a coupé de ville, from the French couper (to cut) i.e. shorten or reduce, was a short four-wheeled closed carriage with an inside seat for two and an outside seat for the driver and this ...
The Cadillac DTS (an initialism of DeVille Touring Sedan) is a full-size car that was built by the American company Cadillac from 2005 until May 2011. [6] It is a four-door sedan that comes in five- or six-seat variants. The DTS debuted at the 2005 Chicago Auto Show and was manufactured at GM's Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly factory.
1957 Cadillac Series 60S, 62, 70, 75 Fisher Fleetwood. All models were equipped with the 365 cu. in. (6.0L) V8; Series 60S Fleetwood – 133 in wheelbase; Series 62 – 129.5 in wheelbase; Eldorado – 129.5 in wheelbase Offered 4 door Sedan Seville option; Series 70 Eldorado Brougham – 126 in wheelbase; Series 75 – 149.7 in wheelbase
The term "de ville" is French for "for town" [2] and indicates that the vehicle is for use in town or for short distances. When added to the end of a body style (saloon, coupé, landaulet, etc.), "de Ville" indicated that the top over the driver's compartment could be folded away, retracted, or otherwise removed. [ 3 ]
1977 Cadillac Seville. K I: RWD: 1975: 1979: 1975 – 1979 Cadillac Seville; Used solely for the Seville. 1996 Cadillac Deville. K II: FWD: 1980: 1999: 1980 – 1997 Cadillac Seville; 1994 – 1999 Cadillac Deville; The successor to the K I platform. 1989 Chevrolet Beretta. L: FWD: 1987: 1996: 1987 – 1996 Chevrolet Beretta; 1987 – 1991 ...
The new GM full-size bodies for 1971, at 64.3 inches front shoulder room (62.1 inches on Cadillac) and 63.4 inches rear shoulder room (64.0 inches on Cadillac) set a record for interior width that would not be matched by any car until the full-size GM rear-wheel-drive models of the early to mid-1990s.
Slotted between the Sedan deVille and the Sixty Special, the Fleetwood also bridged the gap between the deVille and the D-body Fleetwood Brougham (Cadillac Brougham for 1987–1992). The second generation was introduced for 1993, replacing the Brougham as the D-body Cadillac sedan (the Fleetwood Brougham name became a trim option).
A second was based on the fastback GM B platform which ended up being shared by the Cadillac Series 61, the Buick Century and Special, the Oldsmobile 70 and the Pontiac Streamliner Torpedo. A third was a modified notchback design, derived from the fastback B-body, but described as "A-body-like", that ended up being used by the Cadillac Series ...