Cadillac automobile facts

• Cadillac is a luxury vehicle marque owned by General Motors.
• The Cadillac automobile was named after the Seventeenth-century French explorer Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac, who founded Detroit in 1701.
• The Cadillac car was born in 1902.
• Cadillac was purchased by the General Motors (GM) company in 1909.
• Cadillac cars are sold in over fifty countries, but mainly in North America.
• Cadillac is currently the second oldest American automobile manufacturer behind Buick and among the oldest automobile brands in the world.
• Cadillac was the first production automobile to use, amongst others, a distributor, power steering, and a synchromesh transmission.
• Artists like Bruce Springsteen, Dwight Youkham, Johnny Cash, Sugarland, and Heidi Newfield have used Cadillac in their songs and music videos.
• Cadillac is the first American car to win the prestigious Dewar Trophy from the Royal Automobile Club of England and adopt the slogan “Standard of the World”.
• The first mass-production automobile V8 was introduced in the United States in 1914 by Cadillac, a division of GM.
• In 1926, was the first car to introduce shatter-resistant safety glass.
• Cadillac became the first luxury car nameplate to offer an automatic transmission, GM's Hydra Matic in 1941.
• Fledgling automotive magazine Motor Trend awarded its first "Car of the Year" to Cadillac in 1949.