Cadillac Eldorado Fastback concept

Presentation Year:	1965
Vehicle Expo:	GM Motorama
Class :	Concept
Body design :	Coupe

The Cadillac XP-840 Eldorado Fastback was a concept vehicle  from the 1960s that introduced the Cadillac Division of General Motors in 1965.

Since 1963, the Cadillac Design Center had been designing a concept vehicle that reminiscent remotely of the Chevrolet Corvette of the 1960s and 1970s. The sports car had an enormously long, contoured bonnet, which was pulled down to the waistline. Under the waistline were the main headlights. The flat windshield had a V-shape and grabbed around the sides to the B-pillars. Typical of the design of this time was the hip crease over the rear wheel cutouts. The hatchback had no rear window, but a slot in the middle, in which a rear view camera could be used, which replaced the interior mirror. The vehicle ended in a recessed, forwardly inclined tail plate.

The concept car, from which several models of different sizes had previously been created, had no engine. However, it was designed for the inclusion of a V16 engine that would have made the car, if it had ever come to mass production, undoubtedly to the supercar. Finally, Cadillac but remained at the good old V8 engine.