The Eldorado got downsized for the 1986 model year, as part of GM's doomed 1980s efforts to beat Mercedes-Benz and BMW (which included such interesting-but-deeply-flawed money-losers-with-vaguely-European-sounding-names as the Cadillac Allanté, Buick Reatta, and Olds Troféo), and of course you could get this car with the tufted-button upholstery and padded roof that made it a Biarritz. Not many of these cars were sold in 1989, so today's Junkyard Find is another one of those rare-but-not-so-valuable ones.
The price of a base '89 Eldorado Biarritz with leather seats was $30,240, which comes to about 57 grand in 2015 dollars. A BMW 525i listed at $37,000 and the Mercedes-Benz 280E was $39,200, so any car shopper who felt the Eldorado Biarritz measured up to those two machines was getting a good deal with the Cadillac (though the '89 Acura Legend LS coupe was a mere $28,377).
Sans-serif fonts make cars look more European, right? Right?
We can make fun of these cars now, but the ride on these cushy seats was very comfy.
The 4.5 liter version of the HT4100 V8 wasn't quite as sophisticated as the luxury-car powerplants coming from across the oceans in 1989, but at least it wasn't a Buick V6.
"Its driver-oriented engineering brings the road alive!"
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