Cadillac Eldorado
Every Cadillac Eldorado generation in the Burbles catalogue — complete specs, rarity tiers, interactive 3D cards, and the collectors who have spotted them on the street.
- Lineage Span
- 1953–2002 14 generations · 33 published trims
- Power Evolution
- 135 → 340 hp Base lead-trim output across eras
- Catalogue Rarity
- 8 Legendary 8 Legendary · 3 Epic · 3 Rare/Common
All 14 Cadillac Eldorado Generations
Each generation deals in its rarity tier’s alloy with its engine disc, lead specs, and first spotter record. Click into any generation for full trims and market figures.
By 1997 this Eldorado had standard electronic stability control, traction control and adaptive suspension all talking to each other — tech Wikipedia compares directly to Lexus's vaunted VDIM system.
Cadillac shrank the Eldorado by 16 inches and 350 pounds in 1986, betting on a gas-price spike that never came — sales cratered 72% from the outgoing model, and buyers found it too small for Cadillac people yet still not a BMW.
1984 was the best year the Eldorado nameplate ever had: 77,806 sold, more than one in four Cadillacs that left a showroom that year.
When Cadillac supplied the 1973 Indy 500 pace car, it built 566 convertible replicas — just 33 ever saw the track, and the other 533 went one-per-dealership nationwide.
For exactly two years — 1967 and 1968 — the Eldorado hid its headlights behind moving covers, the only Cadillac ever built that way before regulations shut the idea down.
The 1965-66 Fleetwood Eldorado marked the end of an era — the last rear-wheel-drive Eldorado before Cadillac switched the nameplate to front-wheel drive.
The 1963 Eldorado Biarritz was the first Fleetwood-bodied convertible Cadillac had built in 22 years — the body style had vanished when the V16 Series 90 went out of production in 1941.
For 1961, Cadillac quietly demoted the Eldorado Biarritz convertible — it was reclassified as a mere subseries of the De Ville line, a status that stuck for years.
This Eldorado Biarritz had a second career thirty years later as Maurice Minnifield's car on the 1990s TV series Northern Exposure.
The 1959-60 Eldorado Brougham wasn't built in Detroit at all: Cadillac shipped the chassis by boat to Savona, Italy, where Pinin Farina mated the hand-built bodies in Turin before shipping the finished cars back across the Atlantic.
The 1957 Eldorado Brougham carried one of the first all-transistor car radios ever built — a 13-transistor Delco unit, and it came standard, not optional.
The sculpted rear-end styling on the 1957 Eldorado Seville and Biarritz wasn't new — it was a callback to the Cadillac "Interceptor," an obscure post-war show prototype most people have never heard of.
The Eldorado's fluted aluminum side panels were distinctive enough that Reynolds Aluminum commissioned a one-of-a-kind Eldorado coupe to show them off.
The entire run of the original 1953 Eldorado was just 532 cars — 0.5% of Cadillac's sales that year, making Cadillac's halo convertible rarer than almost anything else on the lot.
Collectors Who Spotted the Cadillac Eldorado
No member has published a public street spot of the Cadillac Eldorado yet — the First · Worldwide stamp is wide open.
Cadillac Eldorado Generation-by-Generation Comparison
Lead figures across every published generation, newest to oldest. Select any generation to inspect all trims and engine options.
| Generation | Years | Tier & Rarity | Engine | Power & Torque | 0–60 mph | Weight | Trims | First Spotter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12th Gen Eldorado12th Gen | 1992–2002 | Rare | 4.6L V8 | 275 hp · 300 lb-ft | — | — | 2 trims → | Unclaimed |
| 11th Gen Eldorado11th Gen | 1986–1991 | Rare | 4.5L V8 | 155 hp | — | — | 3 trims → | Unclaimed |
| 10th Gen Eldorado10th Gen | 1979–1985 | Epic | 4.1L I8 | 135 hp · 190 lb-ft | — | — | 6 trims → | Unclaimed |
| Eldorado (1971–1978) | 1971–1978 | Epic | 7.0L V8 | 180 hp · 320 lb-ft | — | 4,828 lb | 3 trims → | Unclaimed |
| Eldorado (1967–1970) | 1967–1970 | Epic77,000 built | 7.0L V8 | 340 hp · 480 lb-ft | — | 4,696 lb | 3 trims → | Unclaimed |
| Fleetwood Eldorado (1965–1966) | 1965–1966 | Legendary | 7.0L V8 | 340 hp · 480 lb-ft | — | — | 2 trims → | Unclaimed |
| Eldorado Biarritz (1963–1964) | 1963–1964 | Legendary | 6.4L V8 | 325 hp · 430 lb-ft | — | — | 2 trims → | Unclaimed |
| Eldorado Biarritz (1961–1962) | 1961–1962 | Legendary | 6.4L V8 | 325 hp · 430 lb-ft | — | — | 2 trims → | Unclaimed |
| Eldorado Seville / Biarritz (1959–1960) | 1959–1960 | Legendary | 6.4L V8 | 325 hp · 430 lb-ft | — | — | 2 trims → | Unclaimed |
| Eldorado Brougham (1959–1960) | 1959–1960 | Legendary99 built | 6.4L V8 | 325 hp · 430 lb-ft | — | — | 1 trim → | Unclaimed |
| Eldorado Brougham (1957–1958) | 1957–1958 | Legendary400 built | 6.0L V8 | 325 hp · 400 lb-ft | — | — | 1 trim → | Unclaimed |
| Eldorado Seville / Biarritz (1957–1958) | 1957–1958 | Legendary | 6.0L V8 | 300 hp | — | — | 2 trims → | Unclaimed |
| Eldorado (1954–1956) | 1954–1956 | Legendary | V8 | 230 hp · 330 lb-ft | — | — | 3 trims → | Unclaimed |
| Eldorado (1953) | 1953–1953 | Legendary532 built | 5.4L V8 | 190 hp | — | 5,000 lb | 1 trim → | Unclaimed |
See a Cadillac Eldorado on the street, point Burbles at it, and that generation’s card goes in your binder with your own photo and serial number. Own one? Add it to your garage in the app.