2. Capone also owned one of the Cadillacs used in The Godfather and The Untouchables.
3. After WWII, Caddy introduced the curved glass windshield to America.
4. Cadillac is named after a Frenchman.
5. Cadillac founder Henry M. Leland apprenticed under gunmaker Samuel Colt.
6. Leland souped up Oldsmobiles when he was younger.
7. Cadillac’s slogan, "The Standard of the World," was a reference to its engineering.
8. By 1910, Cadillac was the first manufacturer to mass-produce cars with enclosed cabins.
9. The enclosed cabins eventually led to the counterbalanced crankshaft to keep the cars quiet.
10. In 1912 Cadillac made people less cranky by inventing the electric starter.
11. ...And that electric starter saved lives.
12. Cadillac was the first car equipped with electric lights.
13. It made V8 engines a thing.
14. Leland and his son left Cadillac in 1917 and started the Lincoln Motor Company...and immediately bankrupted it.
15. The 1922 Type 59c could fill up its own tires.
16. In 1927, Cadillac became the first American carmaker to hire an automotive stylist.
17. It was the first to put a V16 Engine in a car.
18. The tail fin on the 1949 Coupe DeVille (above) was inspired by the P38 Lightning fighter plane.
19. ...But, um, they completely forgot to install a gas cap on it.
20. 187 Somalian leopard furs were used to upholster the 1950 Debutante.
21. Those sexually-charged front bumpers from the ‘50s were called Dagmars, after a popular actress.
22. The 1955 Cadillac La Salle II Sports Coupe was the Corvette-esque concept car they should have made.
23. The 1957 Eldorado Brougham came equipped with whiskey glasses.
24. They invented climate control.
25. Those iconic fins on the 1959 Eldorado were a result of corporate trickery.
26. It was the first automaker to roll out airbags.
27. The Allanté was so complex that Cadillac had to have an Italian airport modified.
28. The DeVille was the first publicly available car to have “night vision.”
29. It has been 3D printing prototype pieces since the 1980s.
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