1937 Cadillac V16 Hartmann Cabriolet. This car received its coachwork in Switzerland by Willy


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Cadillac Sixteen (or, V-16) was the company's flagship model from 1930 to 1940. Back in the 1920s, Cadillac made the most expensive and exclusive car yet. Each chassis was custom-made upon order. The engine was developed in-house to be the most powerful and smooth of all the other rivals in the market.


1937 Cadillac V16 Hartmann Cabriolet. This car received its coachwork in Switzerland by Willy

Cadillac's V16 of the 1930s is fairly well known, as is its 2003 Sixteen (as in V16) concept car. But what is not generally known is that Cadillac toyed with the idea of a 16-cylinder car in the 1960s. Back in the 1920s, Cadillac was seen as the top rung of General Motors' ladder rather than a serious luxury car, such as Packard.


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Cadillac Sixteen Concept V-16 Engine. Virtual Vroom: Putting the pretend pedal to the make-believe metal in pursuit of expedited engine excellence. FRANK MARKUS Published: May 1, 2003. Today.


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All 1933 V16 models featured new flowing bodylines in contrast to the squared contours of the 1930-1932 coachwork. Leland was to supply engines built to his new design (the same basic one rejected by Olds), as well as transmissions and steering gears for the new Detroit-built Cadillacs.


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The Marmon V16, with a swept volume of nearly 500 cubic inches, and an output of 200 horsepower, was a more powerful car than the Cadillac V16, but its debut was nearly a year behind Cadillac's, and by then, the GM luxury car division had won the market.


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The first production car to use a V16 engine was the Cadillac V-16, introduced in January 1930. The Cadillac V16 engine was initially produced with a displacement of 452 cu in (7.4 L), OHV and a V-angle of 45 degrees.


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The car you see here is a second generation Cadillac V-16 powered by the newer L-head V16 engine with a displacement of 431 cubic inches (7.1 liters) and the same 185 bhp as the earlier OHV engine. The Race To Build The First American V16. Cadillac was one of the most important automakers in the world back in the early 20th century.


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1 Of 4! 1939 Cadillac V16 Convertible Sedan. Cadillac surprised the car-buying public in 1938 when it introduced a new and innovative 16 cylinder engine. It featured side valve heads and was lighter and more powerful than its V16 predecessor, plus it was shorter and fit into a standard V8 chassis. In spite of all the good things the new V16 had.


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1940 Cadillac V16 90 Town Car. To build the ultimate automobile, Cadillac began development of a new "multi-cylinder" car in 1926 that could prove to be more powerful and smoother than any luxury vehicle on the market. Engineers worked in secrecy, while design Cadillac chief Larry Fisher and GM's stylist Harley Earl toured Europe in.


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The first such vehicle to use one was the Cadillac V-16, introduced in January 1930. It was one of the classiest and most expensive cars of the era, with only 4,000 units built until 1940.


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The V16 Cadillac is the zenith of Classic Era engineering. Only 4076 cars powered by the mighty sixteen-cylinder engine were built in the eleven-year period of 1930-1940, that is an average of just 370 cars a year. In fact, however, three quarters of them were built during the first year of production, in 1930.


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A Big New Car for Cadillac's Big New V-16 Engine This monster of an engine was fitted to a monster of a car. The new model, called the V-16, had a 148-inch wheelbase (for comparison, the.


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The Cadillac V16 engine is a term that applies to two different Cadillac-designed V-16 automobile engines, an overhead valve 45-degree 452 cu in (7.4 L) model produced between 1930 and 1937, and a 135-degree side valve 431 cu in (7.1 L) between 1938 and 1940. Both were used in its most luxurious model line, the Cadillac V-16 .


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Each V-16 car was custom ordered, and was available in a wide variety of body styles. The Cadillac V-16 was built in two generations: Generation 1 (1930-1937) and Generation 2 (1938-1940). Cadillac V-16 FAQs Model years for Cadillac V-16 (1930 to 1940) 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 Related Submarkets