Custom Cadillac Seville Is The Stuff Of Nightmares
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Car customization is a massive business. Enthusiasts spend millions of dollars every year to differentiate their car from the thousands of others on the road. Some keep it simple, adding slightly larger wheels and a vanity license plate. Others are a bit more extreme, adding a body kit, lowered suspension, custom exhaust, and a host of expensive engine upgrades. Maybe they add a wrap to the car’s exterior for some added style. It’s difficult to judge someone else’s tastes; however, the enthusiast community has little trouble ridiculing ridiculous vehicles. Just look at the Cadillac Seville above, which was posted to Reddit and discovered by CarScoops.com.
On the outside, the Cadillac Seville looks like a monstrosity. The wide-body kit looks better suited for an off-road pickup truck. The exhaust poking out the back looks ludicrous while there appears to be reading lamps situated over all four wheels, which seem to have smaller wheels attached to the real wheels that touch the ground. The American flags add a patriotic touch while it’s not clear why the wheels—even the spare hanging off the rear bumper—are covered in tiny trinkets of some sort. Tons of them.
Is it pretty? Not really, but then again, it’s unlikely the owner modified the Cadillac Seville in hopes of outside praise and accolades. Car customization is all about modifying a car to one person’s taste. That’s why it’s often difficult to sell a customized vehicle. One, you’re selling something you crafted to your liking. And two, you never make back what you paid to customize the vehicle.
While it’s easy to hate on this Cadillac Seville, it’s not fair to attack the owner. You may not like the car and the customizations; however, the car isn’t for you to enjoy. So long as the owner enjoys this rat tail of an old GM luxo-barge, why does it matter if the likes of us do not?
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Carlisle’s test car for the CT6 replacement. JDN wanted the Escala. Carlisle and Reuss want this.
I was going to suggest Carlisle hire this guy, but I believe he already is the head of Cadillac Vehicle Interior Design!
i think it is kind of cool. this person had a vision and went for it.
And GM wonders why Cadillac has an image problem and can’t command more for their cars.
Egads My eyes. They’re damaged from looking at it.
This is what happens when you price cars that everyone can afford.
The only taste some folks have are in their mouths.
ORLY?! Have you seem many of the Celebrity and rich boy modded Lambos, Benzes and etc?
Money in no way shape or form equals taste. That’s painfully obvious with just a quick pursuse of the interwebs or an exotic car meet.
Yes but it is obvious this is not a high dollar job. Also people with money are not doing Cadillacs.
I don’t care for the customization but that now 40 year old Cadillac was the last vehicle design attributed to Bill Mitchell and there is no questioning that even today, it still has the swagger missing in modern Cadillacs. Like all the cars from the Mitchell era, it was a bold and unique design that was loved by many, hated by many but forgotten by no one. The fact that someone takes that 40 year old car and customizes it to that degree speaks to the enduring passion in its design.
Many of the designs from the Mitchell era are all instantly conjured up in the minds of car enthusiasts everywhere with a few words like “Split Window Corvette”, “Boat Tail Riviera”, and “Bustle Back Seville”. That level of design leadership has been missing at GM since Mitchell retired and this last design was launched in 1980.