It was a Cadillac, black grayed with the dust of the road, its windows closed tight so you knew that the people who climbed out of it would be cool and unwrinkled.

There was really no reason to refuse, and Linda Kay had never ridden in a Cadillac.

The simple mechanical strain of overweight, says New York's Dr. Norman Jolliffe, can overburden and damage the heart `` for much the same reason that a Chevrolet engine in a Cadillac body would wear out sooner than if it were in a body for which it was built ''.

In Cadillac Motor Car Co. v. Johnson, ( decided in 1915 by the federal appeals court for New York and several neighboring states ), the court held that a car owner could not recover for injuries from a defective wheel, when the automobile owner had a contract only with the automobile dealer and not with the manufacturer, even though there was " no question that the wheel was made of dead and ‘ dozy ‘ wood, quite insufficient for its purposes.

" The Cadillac court was willing to acknowledge that the case law supported exceptions for " an article dangerous in its nature or likely to become so in the course of the ordinary usage to be contemplated by the vendor.

The facts were almost identical to Cadillac a year earlier: a wheel from a wheel manufacturer was sold to Buick, to a dealer, to MacPherson, and the wheel failed, injuring MacPherson.

Cadillac became the county seat after the so-called " Battle of Manton ," in which a show of force was involved in enforcing a controversial decision to move the county seat from Manton, Michigan.

Two years later, the Clam Lake Canal was constructed between Big and Little Clam lakes, present-day Lakes Mitchell and Cadillac.

Cadillac was originally named Clam Lake and was incorporated as a village in 1874.

The village was incorporated as a city in 1877 and renamed Cadillac, after Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a Frenchman who made the first permanent settlement at Detroit in 1701.

The Wexford County seat of government, originally located in Sherman, was moved to Manton in 1881, as the result of a compromise between the feuding residents of Cadillac and Sherman.

When the sheriff returned to Cadillac, a force consisting of several hundred armed men was assembled ; this group reportedly included a brass band.

Cadillac was home to the Michigan Iron Works Company, which manufactured the Shay locomotive for a short time in the early 1880s.

Thirsty's, a gas station on M-55 west of Cadillac, was the home of Samantha or " Sam The Bear " from the 1970s through the late 1990s, when Sam died of old age.

In fact, Cadillac was chosen in 1988 to donate the Holiday tree to sit on the lawn of the U. S. Capitol building in Washington D. C.

Cadillac was incorporated as a city in 1877.

The class of 2006 was the largest class to go through Cadillac Public Schools.

Prior to 2001, the northern end of the freeway portion of US 131 was located at the southern entrance to Cadillac.

The former route of the highway through downtown Cadillac was redesignated as BUS US 131.

" In the hierarchy of nubbiedom, the supremely rewarding self-sacrifice was the loss of a right leg and a left arm, because, so the theory went, ' afterward, you could still write your name and still have a foot to press the gas pedal of your Cadillac.

A modern-day Cadillac hearse ; this one was used to transport the body of former US President Ronald Reagan during his Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan | state funeral

Designed for professional car use, the rear of the Cadillac commercial chassis was considerably lower than the passenger car frame, thereby lowering the rear deck height as well for ease of loading and unloading.

Oldsmobile was among the first of General Motors ' divisions to receive a true hardtop in 1949, and it was also among the first divisions ( along with Buick and Cadillac ) to receive a wraparound windshield, a trend that eventually all American makes would share at sometime between 1953 and 1964.

Cadillac is currently the second oldest American automobile manufacturer behind fellow GM marque Buick and is among the oldest automobile brands in the world.

The island's highest point, at the highest point on the eastern seaboard of the United States, bears the name Cadillac Mountain, and is notable for the fact that its summit is among the first points in the United States touched by the rays of the rising sun.

Driving or hiking to the summit of Cadillac Mountain to see " the nation's first sunrise " is a popular activity among visitors of Acadia National Park.

Featuring power windows as standard equipment, the 2-door Buick Roadmaster Riviera, along with the Cadillac Series 62 Coupe de Ville and the Oldsmobile 98 Holiday, was among the first hardtop coupes ever produced.

The rear-wheel drive Cadillac Brougham, in addition to rival Lincoln's similar Town Car, was popular among coachbuilders who manufactured stretched limousines on the Brougham's architecture.

Likewise, among owner-driver models, Packard had Cadillac neatly bracketed.

Vehicles that use air suspension today include models from Maybach, Rolls-Royce, Lexus, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Cadillac ( GM ), Mercedes-Benz, Land Rover / Range Rover, SsangYong, Audi, Subaru, Volkswagen, and Lincoln and Ford, among others.

The comic follows Billy as he struggles to deal with life as a cat, making many new friends ( and a few enemies ) among the many animals he meets — most importantly Mr. Hubert, a kind-hearted but blustery white alley cat who lives in a Cadillac in the junkyard, and who takes it upon himself to look after the new kitten — though very few of them ( with the possible exception of Pirmin the circus bear ) ever sincerely believe his claims that he is " really " a human boy.

The Toyota Avalon is among some of the newest models to drop availability of this feature, and models such as the Buick LeSabre replaced by new models such as the Buick Lucerne and Cadillac DTS in which it is offered as an option.

From its earliest years Cadillac aimed for precision engineering and stylish luxury finish, causing its cars to be ranked amongst the finest in the US.

Motor Trend's first award went to Cadillac in 1949 for its V8 engine models ( the earliest awards were given to the manufacturer, not to a specific vehicle ).

In 2007, during an episode of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson and James May studied a number of early car designs ( including the Ford Model T and the De Dion-Bouton Model Q and concluded that the Austin Seven was the first mass-market car to be fitted with a " conventional " control layout, as found on modern cars ( although the earliest car they found to use this layout was a Cadillac Type 53 in 1916 ).

Cadillac () is a city in the U. S. state of Michigan and is the county seat of Wexford County.

Cadillac is also home to two superfund sites according to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Santa Fe Springs is home to Egge Machine Company, supplier of Cadillac engine parts for custom cars and hot rods and also is home to U. S. Aerospace, a publicly traded aerospace and defense contractor for the USDoD, USAF, Lockheed Martin Corporation, The Boeing Company, L-3 Communications Holdings, the Middle River Aircraft Systems subsidiary of General Electric Company, and other aircraft manufacturers, aerospace companies, and defense contractors.

* Haring is a small unincorporated community located a few miles north of Cadillac on U. S. Highway 131 at.

The group had numerous hit singles in the UK, Australia and the U. S. including " Stray Cat Strut ", " Sexy and 17 ", " Look at That Cadillac ," " I Won't Stand in Your Way ", " Bring it Back Again ", and " Rock This Town ", which the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has listed as one of the 500 most important songs in the history of rock and roll.

This made AMC the first U. S. automaker to make air conditioning standard equipment on a line of their cars, beating out even luxury makes such as Lincoln, Imperial, and Cadillac.

On 23 May 2011, the 2005 model Cadillac presidential state car was involved in an incident when it got stuck on a ramp as it exited the U. S. Embassy during an official visit by President Obama.

The Commodore had, in turn, been developed by enlarging the European designed 1994 Opel Omega B, which was marketed in its original form in the U. S. from 1997 to 2001 as the Cadillac Catera.

In February 1944 the U. S. Navy ordered the development of a radar system that could be carried aloft in an aircraft as Project Cadillac.

According to information from the Highway Loss Data Institute, the Cadillac Escalade is the most stolen vehicle in the U. S.

Thirty-three were used at the track during the race week and the remaining 513 cars were distributed to the U. S. Cadillac dealers ( one for each dealership ), which were then sold to the general public.

Recent examples of captive imports in the U. S. have included the Cadillac Catera, a rebadged Opel Omega, the Chevrolet Aveo, built by GM Daewoo, and the Chrysler Crossfire — an American design which mostly uses Mercedes-Benz mechanicals but is actually built by Karmann in Germany.

At a retail price of $ 12, 000. 00, it would have been priced just under the most costly car in the U. S., the $ 13, 000. 00 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham.

Cadillac Ranch is a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas, U. S. It was created in 1974 by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels, who were a part of the art group Ant Farm, and it consists of what were ( when originally installed during 1974 ) either older running used or junk Cadillac automobiles, representing a number of evolutions of the car line ( most notably the birth and death of the defining feature of mid twentieth century Cadillacs ; the tailfin ) from 1949 to 1963, half-buried nose-first in the ground, at an angle corresponding to that of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

General Motors claims that the 1940 Cadillac Sixty Special introduced the " streamlined notchback " styling that influenced roof and rear deck styling of a broad range of vehicles until World War II The notchback design was common across U. S. automakers and automobile types starting in the early 1960s.

Prior to his arrest in New Zealand, he openly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle and according to U. S. officials owned at least 18 luxury cars — including a 1959 pink Cadillac and three cars with vanity license plates that read HACKER, MAFIA, and STONED.

Pininfarina also built the bodies for the limited-series Cadillac Eldorado Brougham for General Motors in 1959 and 1960, assembled them and sent them back to the U. S. There were 99 Broughams built in 1959 and 101 in 1960.

They were married on December 28, 1940, after both had graduated from the U. of M. and Swarthout was writing ad copy for Cadillac and Dow Chemical at the MacManus, John & Adams advertising agency in Detroit.

Clients include Coca-Cola, Toyota, Intel, Cadillac, Acura, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, Pepsi Cola, Lincoln Aviator, Sony, The U. S. Army and Jeep.