CADILLAC V16 1930

The first American car company Cadillac, founded in 1902, was a machine, practically do not differ from those produced workshops of Henry Ford. However, since 1909 the company went into the part of General Motors, began to produce cars with a more powerful 4-cylinder engines. In the future, the Cadillac firm specialized in the production of the most prestigious and comfortable limousines, and CADILLAC, the brand became a sign of wealth of the owner of the car, the entertainment machine, usually become carriers of new trends in automotive engineering. It is on the limousines CADILLAC introduced the electric starter and electric lighting (1912), V-shaped 8-cylinder engines (1915), dynamic system balancing, crankshaft and brakes on all four wheels (1924), as well as synchronized transmission (1929).