Iconic cars can be once in a lifetime - today, we name the cars from every major maker that it thinks is the most important, and why
, but it’s mostly about the styling, courtesy of GM design chief Bill Mitchell. It could easily have been a Cadillac, where indeed it was originally destined.
For a mainstream car introduced in late 1962, it looked incredibly modern, and might still have seemed reasonably fresh if it had been on sale a decade later. From the W-shaped nose to the sharply angled, it was very distinctive, and as American as apple pie with popcorn and a large Coca-Cola.There are many reasons to recoil at the idea of Cadillac being represented by the Escalade on this list.
Sales of the Escalade bombed during 2022 because production was severely limited by supply chain issues – and yet, despite that, it was still easily the most popular Caddy of all in the US, and the leader of the full-size luxury SUV category by an even greater margin.There is simply no argument about this one.
Today’s Corvette, the first with a mid- rather than front-mounted engine, is as much of a triumph as any of its predecessors. In its home country, it’s up against 11 other models in the premium sports car sector, including twoChrysler produced a great many cars called 300 in the 20th century, most of them in either the ‘’ series. Our choice isn’t one of those.
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