"That is the ugliest car I've seen." That was my father's reaction upon seeing the new "bustleback" Cadillac Seville in the fall of 1979. I'm sure that was an exaggeration. After all, dad could remember a lot of Detroit ugly, like the 1958 Dodge.
I haven't seen one of these in quite a while. They were built on the same reliable front-drive platform as the Eldorado and Oldsmobile Toronado, but most of them had truly terrible engines: the Olds diesel or Cadillac's failed "variable displacement" V-8. Weirdly, both Chrysler and Ford decided to copycat this car in the form of the 1981 Imperial and 1982 Lincoln Continental.
