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CadillacType 53
ProductionUnknown
Recorded originUnited States
ClassAutomobile
Built18,004 units
Background
The Cadillac V8, introduced as the Type 51 is a large luxury car that was introduced in September 1914 by Cadillac as a 1915 model. It was Cadillac's first V8 automobile, replacing the four-cylinder Model 30, and used the all new GM A platform for the entire series shared with all GM division brands using a 122 in (3,099 mm) wheelbase.
Text adapted from “Cadillac Type 51” on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗ · retrieved 2026-07
Record depth — Documented
How this is measured → This record contains useful sourced evidence, but it does not yet meet the reference-ready standard. Still needed: production chronology. Fields we cannot source stay empty rather than guessed.