Although the Cadillac Sixteen is dead, I can’t help but feel a tinge of regret that the world will not see an American made 16-cylinder engine with a displacement of 14 liters and a glorious 1000 HP.
Just once, I’d like a carmaker to be a little contrarian and take the risk and make something really innovative and different. Okay, I admit it. I wouldn’t mind seeing GM wave a 1000 HP middle finger at the do-gooders in Congress. It’s the same part of me that was overjoyed when Hardees started making thick burgers….
I must be a dinosaur, but I have to admit feeling that it’s a shame to see the Sixteen go.
Why should American carmakers be forced to produce cars that meet a government mandate for fuel economy?
I don’t like the whole idea of the government setting standards for fuel economy. Why not just let carmakers build cars that they think they can sell?
I have a sneaking suspicion that creeping gas prices might have killed the car, but I would much rather believe that Cadillac did it in response to high gas prices than believe their hand was forced by looming regulation by a bunch of well meaning kill joys in Congress.
The world seems to be absorbed in being carbon neutral, and all I can think about is how much fun it would have been to fill up that Caddy Sixteen with super premium and turn it loose to blast by all of the Priuses and Smart cars and other people doing their part to make the world better.
Yeah, I’m a dinosaur.
More on the end of the exotic concept car here:
