Cadillac Eldorado Fastback
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Eldorado Fastback | |
Presentation year: | 1965 |
Vehicle fair: | GM-Motorama |
Class : | Sports car |
Body shape : | Coupe |
Engine: | none |
Production model: | none |
The Cadillac Eldorado XP-840 Fastback was a concept car that the Cadillac -Division of General Motors introduced the 1965th
Since 1963, the Cadillac Design Center had been designing a concept vehicle that was vaguely reminiscent of the Chevrolet Corvette of the 1960s and 1970s. The sports car had an enormously long, contoured bonnet that was pulled down to the front of the belt. The main headlights were below the belt. The flat windshield was V-shaped and reached around the sides to the B-pillars. The hip bend over the rear wheel cutouts was typical of the design of this time. The hatchback did not have a rear window, but instead had a slot in the middle where a rear view camera could be inserted, which replaced the inside mirror. The vehicle ended in a recessed, forward-sloping rear panel.
The concept vehicle, of which several models in different sizes had previously been created, had no engine. However, it was designed to accommodate a V16 engine that, if it had ever come into series production, would undoubtedly have made the car a super sports car. Ultimately, Cadillac stuck to the good old V8 engine.