General Motors was having a love affair with Italy in the '50s. These are the love childs...but some were lost in the wilderness... by Wallace Wyss - On occasion you find a one-off special named after the person who is buying it, or maybe … [Read more...]
The Cadillac Allante: Almost a Home Run and Dirt Cheap Now
August 17, 2020 By 16 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - General Motors trusts its designers. But there are those rare moments when higher management says "Why don't we try someone else with this new design?" When that happens there is a lot of resentment back at the GM Design Center … [Read more...]
Will History Repeat Itself With A Civilian Version of GM’s Infantry Squad Vehicle?
July 2, 2020 By 3 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - I remember when the original Humvee came out, we were just getting a war on and it was fashionable to buy a military HumVee, until you found out how slow it was, how wide it was and how uncivilized. Then General Motors came … [Read more...]
Concept Cars That Didn’t’ Make It: The 1956 Pontiac Club de Mer
June 22, 2020 By 3 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - Harley Earl was GM's first director of design (then called Styling). It was he who pioneered making clay models (inspired by his fashioning cars of clay in California as a kid). It was he who created the concept of the dream … [Read more...]
Marketing: Cadillac Ciel Concept
June 13, 2020 By 6 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - YouTube is a wonderful thing; you can dial up your favorite car ad see a video of it driving down the highway. On YouTube I found a video of one of my favorite concept cars of the last few years, the Cadillac Ciel, a four door … [Read more...]
Marketing: Cars Detroit Should Have Built
June 8, 2020 By 1 Comment
The 2003 Cadillac Sixteen Concept. by Wallace Wyss - Built for the 2003 Detroit Auto Show, the Cadillac Sixteen was a concept car that payed homage to the V16 cars of Cadillac’s past, even though you could argue that hardly anybody remembered … [Read more...]
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