The Fall of Cadillac — How America’s Standard Lost Its Luster!

Описание: 🚗 The Rise and Fall of Cadillac — America’s Standard of the World That Lost Its Shine

A 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz sells for $1.2 million at auction — its chrome tailfins glowing like a monument to America’s lost confidence.
Across town, brand-new Cadillacs sit unsold in fluorescent showrooms.
How did the car that once defined success become a symbol of decline?

This cinematic documentary traces Cadillac’s journey from Henry Leland’s precision engineering to Harley Earl’s chrome-plated dreams, through the oil crises, corporate missteps, and into the uncertain electric future of the LYRIQ and CELESTIQ.
It’s the story of how the Standard of the World rose, fell, and struggles to believe in itself again.

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📌 In this video, you’ll discover:
• How Henry Leland’s obsession with precision made Cadillac America’s first true luxury car
• Why Harley Earl’s design revolution turned Cadillacs into postwar art
• How the oil embargo, diesel disaster, and Cimarron destroyed the brand’s prestige
• The rebirth attempts through the CTS and V-Series
• Why Cadillac’s electric future may restore—or erase—its soul
• And how its story mirrors the rise and reckoning of American industry itself

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🕒 Chapters

0:00 — The Million-Dollar Cadillac and the Dream That Faded
1:15 — Henry Leland: Precision, Perfection, and the Birth of Cadillac
3:45 — Harley Earl and the Art of American Luxury
5:56 — The Standard of the World: Innovation and Global Supremacy
8:08 — 1973 Oil Shock: When Success Became a Liability
10:21 — Diesel Failure and the Cimarron Disaster
12:30 — The Collapse of Detroit and the Cultural Fall of Cadillac
13:30 — The CTS Era: Art and Science, a Modern Renaissance
14:36 — The Electric Future: LYRIQ, CELESTIQ, and Reinvention
16:54 — Reflections: What Cadillac’s Fall Says About America

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⚙️ Summary

For over a century, Cadillac defined American luxury — the car that presidents rode, musicians sang about, and innovators admired.
But as Detroit’s glory faded, Cadillac’s precision gave way to compromise, its innovation to imitation.
Now, as it leads General Motors’ electric transformation, the brand faces its final test:
Can America’s most storied automaker still stand for excellence, not just nostalgia?

💬 Do you believe Cadillac can reclaim its soul in the electric age?