Cadillac V16 1930

The Cadillac V-16 also known as the Cadillac Sixteen was Cadillac's top-of-the-line car from the January 1930 launch until production ceased in 1940 that the war in Europe the sale slain. All were completed by custom order, and the car was built in very small numbers, only 4076 cars were built in the eleven years of the model was offered. Most of them have built in the single year 1930, before the Great Depression really root. This was the first V16 engine to the car to reach production status in the United States. The Cadillac V-16 was built - and lasted 11 years, a production cycle more than any other vehicle more than eight cylinders - because of the passion of great engineers and training of their management to be the best produce. It was a masterpiece, which is why so many examples are still there. If Theodore MacManus put it in the most famous ads of Cadillac, "The penalty of leadership," a great success "makes itself known, no matter how loud the cry of denial. What deserves to live life." The economic rationale for building such a car was that the decision was taken and the development funds spent long before the stock market crashed in October 1929, and nobody knew, not even in 1930, how long the economic downturn will last . In fact, he was production delays that caused all the so-called "multi-cylinder" classic to appear when they did. Cadillac Sixteen made ​​its decision in 1927, as part of a planned attack on Packard to power luxury cars, but the development took three years.