Word: catera
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...history as the car that started Cadillac on its march back to quality. If you were ever a fan (as in, the '59 Eldorado) it's finally time to blow away the nightmares of GM's experiments with "small" or "sporty" Cadillacs, like the Cimarron or the ridiculous Catera, which is really an Opel (a company which, by the way, just announced a historic $608 million loss...
...elegantly tailored four-door sedan that, its chief designer says, "looks like a car dressed in a Chanel suit." From Pontiac, there is a two-tone macho minivan for suburbanites who still lust for the fast lane. From Saturn, the EV1, a noiseless, all-aluminum electric vehicle. From Cadillac, Catera, GM's first Euro-American entry, designed to take on such young luxury imports as the BMW-3s and Lexus ES300...
Witness, for example, the fate of a recent advertising creation, a wacky, Day-Glo pink duck, an escapee from the Cadillac crest, that has been playing a lead cartoon role in ads for the '97 Catera. The "Caddy that zigs" is aimed at younger, entry-level luxury buyers in their 30s and 40s, almost a generation behind most traditional Cadillac owners. The duck may entertain such prospects, but it also infuriated many Cadillac loyalists and even some of GM's top brass. In the past, the duck and the campaign (as well as whoever was in charge) might have ended...
...three flights up. His performance of the "Inman March" is something electrifying. Of late he has bestowed his energies on the funeral dirge in "Round the World in Eighty Days," and has brought it to such a state of perfection that one almost expects to see the Amazons, et catera, coming up the stairs. His audience fondly trust that some other equally classical air may soon take the place of this...
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