Re: IML: Is it a Old Man's car or Prestiage driving?

[richard burgess <lecrown60@xxxxxxxxx>]

It occured to me that with the Imperial coming and going over the years that it would make it difficult to aspire to because by the time you got there they might not be making it that year!

 

Richard

'60 Crown

"Hugh, 58 Imperial" <imperial58@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The Imperial was always a car for the upper echelon. It's very rare to meet
anyone who says they actually owned one. They were cars for bankers and
doctors. Because of their high initial cost, I'm quite sure they always
skewed towards the older, wealthier demographic. The 300 was once called
the banker's rocket or something like that, wasn't it? It was sold as a
thrill car for the wealthy set. No one ever said that about the Imperial.
They were a different kind of halo car. To be aspired to but only
attainable by the few. As "youth" culture became the predominant force,
those dang baby boomers wouldn't be seen dead in some old fuddy duddy
albatross, their "betters" had driven.

Hugh


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Subject: IML: Is it a Old Man's car or Prestiage driving?


> My Question: When, exactly, did Cadillacs, Lincolns and our beloved
> IMPERIALS go from being a prestige car to an "old people" car, at least in
> the eyes of reviewers. Surely the prestigious people that bought them as
> late as 1974 could not all have reached old age by 1987!?! I cannot
> believe fuel economy is the cause either, after all the 1980s Broughams
> can get 20 mpg on the highway, not too shabby for the 1980s! When did
> successful people switch from Cadillacs to BMWs and Lexuses, and what was
> it that did it? Because surely a successful 40 year old in 1975 would buy
> a CaddyImperial or Lincoln , not a BMW. What made him decide that by age
> 50 Caddies/Imperials were too "old man?"
>
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