Cadillac

The Cadillac Motor Car Division (/ˈkædɪlæk/) is a division of the American automobile manufacturer General Motors Company (GM) that designs and builds luxury vehicles. Its major markets are the United States, Canada, and China. Cadillac models are distributed in 34 additional markets worldwide. Cadillac automobiles are at the top of the luxury field within the United States. In 2019, Cadillac sold 390,458 vehicles worldwide, a record for the brand.

Founded in 1902, Cadillac is among the oldest automotive brands in the world, fourth in the United States only to Autocar Company (1897) and fellow GM marques Oldsmobile (1897) and Buick (1899), and the second-oldest American automaker still operating. It was named after Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who founded Detroit, Michigan. The Cadillac crest is based on his coat of arms.

Well, I ain't Goldfinger and I ain't Joe Fashion
And you can't buy much with the checks I'm cashin'
So, people if you wonder why I'm a-ridin' with a smile
It's 'cause my little baby loves me Cadillac style ~ Sammy Kershaw

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She got twenty-nine Cadillacs
Twenty-nine sables from Sach's
They came from twenty-nine fellas who never had their arms
Around the lady from 29 Palms
- Allie Wrubel, "The Lady From Twentynine Palms" (1947), performed in its best-known recordings by the Andrews Sisters and Freddie Martin & His Orchestra

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Ford then embarked on a brief but successful career as a racing driver. Victory in a race at Grosse Point brought him sufficient kudos for a second company, the Henry Ford Motor Company, founded just seven weeks later. Many invested who had already lost money financing the Detroit Automobile Company. The intention — of he backers at least — was to start making a car based on the one which had been responsible for Ford's famous racing victory. Yet only four months later, Ford was asked to leave and offered a severance payment of $900. The company was renamed the Cadillac Automobile Company and manufactured a car according to Ford's design, but with a single, rather than a two-cylinder motor. After 1909, as part of General Motors, Ford's arch rivals in later years, Cadillac became one of America's most prestigious makes of motor car — the exact opposite of the reputation Ford motor cars later acquired.
- Ray Batchelor, Henry Ford, Mass Production, Modernism, and Design. 1994. p. 19. ISBN 9780719041747.

As I was motorvatin' over the hill
I saw Maybellene in a Coupe DeVille
A Cadillac a-rollin' on the open road
Nothin' will outrun my V8 Ford
- Chuck Berry, "Maybellene" (1955), written by Chuck Berry

I might not have any money, I might not have a Cadillac, but I'm proud of what I do and I don't answer to anybody.
- A Bronx Tale (1993), directed by Robert De Niro, written by Chazz Palminteri. Spoken by De Niro's character Lorenzo Anello.

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You Can Kill A Horse But Not A Cadillac
- Cadillac advertising slogan, 1905

They'll Take The Cadillac Tonight
- Cadillac advertising slogan, 1955

Best Of All... It's A Cadillac
- Cadillac advertising slogan, 1982-1986

The Only Way To Travel Is Cadillac Style
- Cadillac advertising slogan, 1988-1991

Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
The first year they had me puttin' wheels on Cadillacs
Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black
- Johnny Cash, "One Piece at a Time", One Piece at a Time (1976), written by Wayne Kemp

One day I devised myself a plan
That should be the envy of most any man
I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand
- Johnny Cash, "One Piece at a Time", One Piece at a Time (1976), written by Wayne Kemp

So the very next day when I punched in
With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
I've never considered myself a thief
But GM wouldn't miss just one little piece
Especially if I strung it out over several years
- Johnny Cash, "One Piece at a Time", One Piece at a Time (1976), written by Wayne Kemp

I got it one piece at a time and it didn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style, I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is around
- Johnny Cash, "One Piece at a Time", One Piece at a Time (1976), written by Wayne Kemp

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Well, I ain't Burt Reynolds and I ain't Tom Selleck
I got bills up the pike and my car's an old relic
I get Chevrolet pay, but I've got a big smile
'Cause my little baby loves me Cadillac style
- Sammy Kershaw, first verse of "Cadillac Style," Don't Go Near The Water (1991), lyrics written by Mark Petersen

Well, I don't have a condo in Panama City
You could say I'm a member of the Poor Boy Committee
But I kinda feel rich when I've been with her a while
'Cause my little baby loves me Cadillac style
- Sammy Kershaw, second verse of "Cadillac Style," Don't Go Near The Water (1991)

Well, I ain't Goldfinger and I ain't Joe Fashion
And you can't buy much with the checks I'm cashin'
So, people if you wonder why I'm a-ridin' with a smile
It's 'cause my little baby loves me Cadillac style
- Sammy Kershaw, third verse of "Cadillac Style," Don't Go Near The Water (1991)

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Mr. Sloan, Cadillacs are made to run, not just to sell.
- Henry M. Leland, explaining to Alfred P. Sloan, the supplier of Hyatt bearings, that his bearings not (yet) met the requirements. As quoted in David Farber. Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors, p. 14

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Wayne Kirkby: And what are you in now?

Don Draper: I had a Dodge.

Wayne Kirkby: Those are wonderful if you want to get somewhere. This is for when you've already arrived.

Mad Men (television series), Season 2, Episode 7 "The Gold Violin", first aired 7 September 2008

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Well, there she sits buddy just a-gleamin' in the sun
There to greet a working man when his day is done
I'm gonna pack my pa and I'm gonna pack my aunt
I'm gonna take them down to the Cadillac ranch
- Bruce Springsteen, "Cadillac Ranch", The River (1980), written by The Boss himself

Eldorado fins, baby, whitewalls in skirts
Rides just like my little bit of heaven here on earth
Well, buddy, when I die throw my body in the back
Drive me to the junkyard in my Cadillac
- Bruce Springsteen, "Cadillac Ranch", The River (1980)

Cadillac, Cadillac
Long and dark shiny and black
Open up your engines, let 'em roar
Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur
- Bruce Springsteen, "Cadillac Ranch", The River (1980)

James Dean in that Mercury '49
Junior Johnson runnin' through the woods of Caroline
Even Burt Reynolds in that black Trans Am
All gonna meet down at the Cadillac ranch
- Bruce Springsteen, "Cadillac Ranch", The River (1980)

Oh, wake up in the morning,
Brush my teeth and comb my hair.
Well, wake up in the morning,
Brush my teeth and comb my hair.
Well, there's a big black Cadillac parked in the street over there
Well, it's the finest lookin' car that ever rolled off the line
Any other car, you'd just be wastin' your time
Oh, one fine day I'm gonna make a Cadillac mine.
- Stray Cats, "Look At That Cadillac," Rant N' Rave With the Stray Cats (1983), written & composed by Brian Setzer

I gotta get a Cadillac
Look at that Cadillac, look at that
Look at that Cadillac, look at that
Rollin' down the avenue
I'm gonna get me a Cadillac, too, if it's the last thing I do.
- Stray Cats, chorus of "Look At That Cadillac," Rant N' Rave With the Stray Cats (1983), written & composed by Brian Setzer

Well, I got a job down at the liquor store
Well, I got a job down at the liquor store
Whoa, I ain't lazy but I don't want to work no more
When I get my pay-cheque put it right in the bank
I'm puttin' all my money straight right in the bank
Well, I'm a-half way to gettin' my big black Cadillac tank!
- Stray Cats, "Look At That Cadillac," Rant N' Rave With the Stray Cats (1983), written & composed by Brian Setzer

Whoa, sittin' in a bar knockinem back, up pulls a big black Cadillac
Out steps a kitten, stand back cats, 'way I go in that Cadillac!
- Stray Cats, "Look At That Cadillac," Rant N' Rave With the Stray Cats (1983), written & composed by Brian Setzer

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