"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
05/27/2018 at 23:22 • Filed to: Cadillac, catera, zigs
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"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
05/27/2018 at 23:22 • Filed to: Cadillac, catera, zigs | 0
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“There is no book that tells you how to feel completely alive... but there is the Cadillac Catera owner’s manual.” WAT. These commercials are insane. By the weigh, this thing was 3900lbs and barely had 200hp. But don’t worry, you could lease one for $399/mo or at least until the interference engine grenaded itself.
A couple of other weird points:
1) WOW they spent a lot of money marketing this bucket
2) They actually went so far as to name a character on Chicago Hope (a 6 season long doctor show) “Lisa Catera” aka “Lease A Catera”. The TV spots that ran during the show would say something like “Lease A Catera for $399/mo.... who is Lease-A-Catera?”
smobgirl
> Nick Has an Exocet
05/28/2018 at 00:07 |
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If I remembering right,this came out about when I was in high school...driving a 17 year old Caddy that was somehow still running. Most of the time.
WilliamsSW
> Nick Has an Exocet
05/28/2018 at 00:13 |
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Ok but you have to compare it by the standards of the day, not today’s standards.
And when you do that... oh yeah it’s still a fat underpowered pig. Nevermind.
ranwhenparked
> Nick Has an Exocet
05/28/2018 at 00:46 |
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I look at it as Cadillac belatedly doing what they should have done in the ‘70s and just straight rebadge an upper end Opel as their small car.
Of course, Opel in the ‘90s was very different from Opel in the ‘70s, and the Omega was a very different car than the Diplomat. So, once again, Cadillac swung and missed.
HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> Nick Has an Exocet
05/28/2018 at 01:45 |
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LS swap all the things?
Svend
> Nick Has an Exocet
05/28/2018 at 03:37 |
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We had these as police cars.
Though some like these were 3.2 V6 24v, 215bhp or the 3.0 V6, 208bhp.
