1992 Cadillac Sedan DeVille Review - A Sleepy Luxury Sedan
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
1:05 - Drivetrain
2:53 - Interior
4:44 - BFB Test
5:01 - Seats
5:17 - Back Seats
5:58 - Trunk / Cargo Space
6:52 - Exterior
7:46 - Final Thoughts
10:15 - Outro - Auta a dopravní prostředky
I burst out laughing at the back seat review, well done. I love these older luxury cars!
5:59 this part of you falling asleep on the comfortable seats is a major flex that no other car review person has ever done. That was over the top in a good way. It was a show off and a bad ass moment in car history tbh
This is what under bosses and baby mobsters drove until they could get the fleetwood
Eeeeeexactly
😅😅 i drove this great car
I always wanted one of these Cadillacs. It was sort of my dream car during high school but then I got a job had money and went for a Lincoln Navigator second Gen. and I don’t regret it. In still alive and while I am I might pull the trigger in one of these someday.
Haha falling asleep in the back seat. I’ve been there. As a kid my parents rented a couple of these when we’d come home to the states on vacation. from Saudi Arabia. I would ask my dad if he could get a Town Car but each time they were reserved so we’d end up with a DeVille consolation prize. I remember this gold DeVille we had for almost a whole summer started to have this problem where a bolt expanded and would get caught on the front of the door as you opened it making a loud popping noise and taking a little paint off on the edge, leading my mom to start calling it the Rattillac She still says this to this day when Cadillacs are brought up😅. As time goes on I miss the comfy Caddy days
What a beautiful example of a modern-classic Caddy! Weird to think cars that have air bags, ABS breaks, quasi-contemporary styling to be classified as a "classic" car.
This 1991-93 refresh is the most beautifully resolved design of the 1st Gen FWD Cadillacs. A retro classic in every respect, and the 4.9L PFI V8 is a beautiful engine.
I rented one of these in 1992 on a trip thru New England-a total joy!
Had a white 91 inherited from my mother with 60,000 miles on it. I sold it with 140,000. After a few bugs were worked out of it under extended warranty, thank heavens, the car was rock solid reliable. The 4.9 is a great engine- reliable, relatively economical, smooth and quiet. The transmission shifted like butter with no iisues ever. The car was very comfortable to drive, handled okay, and was a tank in the snow. It's one car I regret selling.
This is my favorite era of Cadillac as well, aesthetically speaking. This DeVille, the Seville and, especially, the Eldorado of the same era are the best looking Cadillacs imo. A 1991 Eldorado was the only Cadillac I ever came close to buying (used), but the condition of the car I looked at was not exactly pristine.
I love this style I've had my 89 sedan deville for about 20 years now. Always starts and drives. 34 years old and still amazing.
That radio was available in almost every GM vehicle of the time.
4:37 These got to be the plushiest carpeting ever fitted to a production car. So lovely.
Guess Cadillac lost its way when execs decided to cater to a younger audience instead of letting this same audience age enough to enjoy Cadillac's qualities.
I had a neighbor who was a substitute teacher and would sometimes drive us to school. She had a newer convertible for nice weather but whenever it snowed we got to ride in the caddy. Seeing that red interior, I can still smell the residual cigar smoke. We were very much a Buick (and VW) family so I recognized some LeSabre parts.
Ha! I just love the color! I so miss red cars with red interiors. The gold badges are cool too.
I had a 93 Deville one of my favorites. The back seat and trunk were huge. Nothing like anything today. Beautiful to drive.
The back seat review was epic🤣🤣
As has been said here already, the grid lines adjacent to the speedometer were for warning lights, and the Information Center had even more warning lights and indicators. My parents had two of these--a blue 1986 and a burgundy 1989, virtually identical save for the color. We took so many comfortable multi-state road trips in those!
That red is just so gorgeous on this Caddy. I love it a lot even if I wasn't a fan of Cadillac around this era.
I had two with that shade of red and my friends all called it, "Pimp Daddy Red" but they loved it also.
These were great cars. I rented them all the time. And the 4.9 was not that slow actually, it moved out. Very Reliable and Pretty Piece for the day and still for today. !!! This was a Cadillac. !!!!
Lol, no joke. They were fast off the line in their day - LS400 (or better) acceleration, at least up to 70 or 80.
@@jimmya2578 Yes Sir. These were not slow by any means. Great cars. !!!
There's something particularly comfy about these early 90s cadillacs.
That Cadillac is in really good shape.
This was my favorite model Cadillac my parents owned growing up.
Carnelian red. My dad had a 93 spring edition in this exact color scheme and sold it to me as my first car at 17yrs old. I was THE MAN driving this as a teen. Maybe my memory serves me wrong but it was FAST. In my naive youth I was peeling out all the time in the coupe.
Great review! I own a 1994 with the 4.9l.
Cranberry red, i think the only one 94 sedan de ville in the netherlands.
Nice I’m from Belgium and have the 1990 sixty special with the 4.5 engine 180hp😁, I think I’m the only one in Belgium with a sixty special Fleetwood 😅
I had the exact CDV version of this car. Ruby red w faux carriage roof, red leather. Was a total garage queen but with high mileage. Ran very well. Firm ride, was ok, not softest ride i ever had. Was getting sick of Premium ..
my uncle had this car but in blue, it was a slow but smooth land yacht. finally died of a cracked engine block but ill always remember it fondly
looking at a 92 baby blue one tomorrow . They have allot of character
I’ve got a ‘92 Eldorado. And my first car was a ‘92 sedan deville 😊
I had a great aunt that had a Caddy like this. Great old school big American car floaty ride. The indicator lights on the hood are an original GM feature starting in the 70's I believe. It also has indicator lights in the center of the roof right above the rear window that you can see in the rearview mirror to show you if your brake lights and tail lights are working. The radio is standard GM parts bin, used in everything GM produced at the time. The 4.9 engine started as the HT4100 and was horrible but by the time it got to this version it was very reliable. And although it didn't make much power for a V8 it moved the Caddy with authority and equal to the Lincoln Town Car of the time.
Ok I going to go buy one right now
I've got a 93 and I used to also have a 91. The digital cluster was optional, and so my 91 had the big ol horizontal speedo. Wonderful cars and amazing things to drive.
3:12 The grid surrounds the warning lamps. The information center includes less important warning lamps, like the trunk, CCR if you have it, cruise control, traction off if you have that, service air conditioning, etc.
4:30 This is the standard Delco radio for these Cadillacs, there was a fancier one called the Delco Gold which has no equalizer, and there was offered a CD player as well.
5:55 No mention of both rear passengers getting cigarette lighters though, huh?
6:50 This car has keyless! No door button on the trunk, and I saw the fob on the keyring. Wonder why you didn't show that off, it was fancy for 1992.
I had a 1993, dark cherry metallic body/academy grey lower trim with an academy grey interior. That thing was the perfect road trip car.
Back when caddies mostly had v8s and the seats weren’t rock hard
I don't understand the trend of making seats rock hard. I want to sink down a couple inches when I sit down. American luxury needs to go back to being big comfortable cruisers instead of chasing the sporty European feel.
@@bwofficial1776 exactly!!!!
I half expected to hear the big freakin bottle fail sound effect when you said this car is FWD.
I drove one of these on a road trip from montreal, virginia beach, memphis, nashville, new orleans, pensacola back to montreal in 26 hour straight drive on last leg.
I grew up in one of these. Used to get dropped off at daycare in this but all blue. Blue interior blue exterior😮💨
Cadillac has been using the fender indicator lights for decades.
*They may have been the first cars to use them.
Recently I've been checking Caddies more...and then this review shows up.
Interesting coincidence. Very nice. 🍷🗿
Grid boxes are the warning lights I believe
Love the red interior!
Those grids were for warning lights, IIRC. Love these reviews! My mom had an '89 Deville.
aw man i just submitted my 85 sedan deville not long ago ahah, hopefully i can get the stanza up and runnin for ya soon
U got a stanza is it the sedan or weird cool minivan thingy one
@@phillyspitta8147 mines the sedan, i was gonna get the wagon one too but all the ones i looked at were rusted beyond repair
Haha - great review! Thats for sharing that absolute beautiful car! What a timecapsule ❤
Handsome, dignified. I notice a flag mast on the front bumper. This Cadillac may have been an official car in the past.
Needs more red
Needs some lava too.
Hey! That’s the same engine as in my 94!
Thanks Dillion.. very appreciated
Genuine belly laugh at the backseat review!
7:40 interesting you bring that up as that parking poll on the front is also very JDM.
You're the first person that knew what this was 😂 I installed it because I thought it was a cool and extremely useful add-on. These were added to pretty much every Cadillac and Buick that was imported to Japan. I added one to another car also for the exact same reasons you will see in a later video because he also reviewed that one
I think they put the Caddy radio in the Cimmaron rather than the other way around.
When this engine series was first put in Cadillac I believe it was a 4.2HT V-8. (Heaps of Trouble we called mine.) They even had to detune the engine and make it fit sideways. What was the point of all that you ask? Just so they could brag they had a front wheel drive V-8 when the other divisions only had a more powerful v-6. Gotta love the old way of thinking. Your backseat review made me smile and laugh because I have never see you do it that way. That was great.
Beautiful Cadillac , these FWD Fleetwoods/Sedan Deville were decent luxury cars @ the time .
One of an best vehicles for me to drive in!
Cadillac style
🎶 “The only way to travel . . .” 🎶
i think the plate that says "information center" actually has some warning lights on it like "Service AC system" and stuff like that
I had one same color too!
I loved it!
It was used with about 80k miles.
It was a great car for winter driving and very comfortable.
Oil leak made me get rid of it but it was nice while it lasted!
Back to the American sedan reviews. Good!
I've had two of these and would love to have another one. they're super dependable and very comfortable.
When the shot of the NorthStar came on screen my son said “ohhhh it broke”
He is 2.
Definitely the peak of the older formula, only smaller.
GREAT interstate cruiser.
The "float", the A/C, the leather seats as well as that fine Delco/Bose unit go a long way to preserve the freshness of it's passengers over a long distance.
Backseat review was great! 😆
I had a 91 sedan deville... it was a light faun antelope color with silver two tone, and a hard to find hardtop... the car was essentially a pinkish tan so I called it my pink cadillac or homer simpson mobile... I was lucky to have all power items working and no damage to the bumpers... my alloys were trashed so i replaced them with chrome deville bottlecap wheels... the v8 felt like a great 3800 but quicker and smoother... my biggest qualm was the over engineered ac, which had a complicated automatic system... the heat only comes out bottom and defroster... those vents you pointed out were for ac only and i hated the "gentle" heating system in the winter... the radio was tilted, i forget why and was yes the same as in the cimmeron, and every other gm all through the 80s and 90s... every cadillac had that radio as an option, i did like the wreaths on the knobs...
It was a great bucket list cruiser, but the climate system was its enevitable downfall for me, and i wouldn't own another unless it never got driven in the cold...
Those aren’t opera lights, those are reading lamps. Opera lights are on the outside B or C Pillars.
My Grandmother still has hers. She bought it in '93
This was my second car, I was seventeenth 😢. I miss that caddy.
As we call them in the south the baby caddie! My ex-girlfriend’s mother had on of these with this exact interior and man we dogged the shit out of this car! We broke the steering wheel column, which are known for having quite often in these for some reason.
The steering columns were the same as most cars used by gm in this era... the tilt mechinism was not as strong as it should be so if you pushed hard or used the wheel to enter/exit they could wear out faster... not a hard fix, but time consuming and terrible to deal with while broken... i fixed a couple, but never broke one myself
My bestie has a mint DTS with 17k on it and I keep telling him to off it before it pukes fluids n spits pistons n rods everywhere
I've always rather liked the later 4.9 years of this generation (they were dogs until 88, then got steadily better as engines progressed through the 4.5),. Especially the almost never seen Touring Sedan variation. Much cleaner, tighter suspection, etc. I missed out on one of those a couple years back and, since the 91 Seville STS has become rather pricey, I suspect they're still a good deal - IF you can find one. It was not a cheap model new, and outside Cadillac's traditional brief, so not many were made. For the, they were not slow. 9 seconds of so - you have to look at the then current competition.
I have a 1990 Fleetwood sixty special with the 4.5 engine, is it actually a good engine? I’m planning to go on vacation with the Car it had 155000 Miles on it om the 3rd owner. Ive changed the oil and all the filters and the brakes….
"The only way to travel is Cadillac Style, some people want more, not just a little bit" LOL
Another great vid!! However if this Cadillac feels "preety modern today" even though it is 30 years old then I suppose a Lexus LS of the same year must feel like a spaceship from a galaxy far far away...
LOVE IT! Except for teh wheel covers. I had a 91 and it was my all-time favorite car to drive.
I had a blue '93 for a while. I had to get rid of it because it had so many electrical issues and couldn't find anyone to work on it.
My dad drove one of these when I was a kid. A cream/beige one. Those leather seats got real hot in Florida lol.
Can you do a full in-depth review of the 2018-2019 refreshed Cadillac XTS with no bias or nonsense opinions just a standard review
I can only imagine if this DeVille was a rear solid live axle wheel drive...
See my comment above why it got front wheel drive and not rear wheel. Even though it had less power than the v6 at first.
have this as a coupe, absolutely nothing wrong with the V8....of course compared to todays engines yes its a bit slow, but still runs great..i prefer this over the hard seat, hard riding shit carmakers are making now...
I own a 1992 same color love that car needs some love but she’s a great car
The information center does have lighted sections behind it that illuminate if and when there is a problem. Same ad in my 91 DeVille
By the way, my 91 had a perfect interior, except for a huge burn melted piece in the back seat and the very back of the headliner was failed... someone pulled a john candy and flicked a cigarette out the window and it went back in the car, but it was of course caught in time... i found a replacement seat the first time i went to the junkyard to get parts for her replacement, an 89 Olds Delta 88 sedan
I like this car but peak Cadillac for me was right around ’63 - ‘66 in terms of design, engineering and build quality.
My first car...I still have my 1990 now 20's later. Mine only runs on e85. 😈Lucky me e85 is cheaper then premium. I love seeing these cars but it does trip me out that their classics technically. Keep making these awesome videos.
You have a 1990s running on ethanol? Seems like that would ruin the fuel system. What did you do to get that to work?
At 200 hp/275 ft-lbs, it's not going to win any races, but it's quick off the line and can roast the tires if you choose to do so (since it's not your car, I don't blame you for not testing that lol).
Dream car 😮
one of my favorite year deville. I had one for years, and loved it. I disagree the throttle response is great and you can pass with ease.
This car all blacked out with bulletproof windows, you got yourself a Mob Boss
The sleeping literally made me laugh out loud!!!
I know a lot of people dislike the N*, but.... it replaced this HT engine family, which was way less powerful, not as efficient, didn't get as strong of transmissions mated to them, and they *still* had head gasket problems just like the N*. So as far as I'm concerned, just get the N* and at least you get way better efficiency and more power, since you'd be worrying about the head gasket in both either way
I had the 4.1 HT and we called it Heaps of Trouble for HT. Also he commented on "Information Center" inside, many GM cars called it "Digital information Center" or DIC for short. That is why they shortened it. We would make fun of friends who got "DIC" in the car. How did GM not think of that for many years?
The northstar originally was quite reliable... it was common to see 200, 250k on them... however they were a tremendous pain to work on and when they broke, hardly any were saved... that was 10/15 years ago... now all that are left are low mileage ones and they didnt get driven enough and thats why "low mileage" northstars are now considered unreliable... the failure of seals and gaskets is accelerating the failure, and they pop they are toast...
Now the 4.1 and 4.5 did have reliabilty issues... but not the 4.9... by then they had ironed out all the bugs, and its very common to see those with 200k running perfectly...
Some on this year didn't have digital gauges ?? Im seeing some with non digital
beautiful
I still think it's funny how especially older american cars has every function W R I T T E N with full words, without any symbol or so..
Love this body style
When you pull up next to one of these genaration Devilles they did not seem that big but then when you drive one the hood looks like it extends for a mile very deceiving
well there goes my 1990 devilles speciality
My 1990 Cadillac Coupe deville hot rod cost-efficient would change your mind about if it's fast or not
Them seats was nothing but the truth miss them old school sofas haha
I had the 91 Fleetwood with the D'Elegence Package, same Colour, but without the ugly Vinyl Roof. It was quite Peppy, and could squeal the Tires. It had a Problem in the Transmission, that would set a Code. I got rid of it at that point.
Grid boxes are where the idiot lights (check engine etc) come oon
If that had a 3800 series 2 engine- it would be an awesome car otherwise, cadillac was very dangerous with all thier junk engines. Nice car body wise
4.9 was a phenomenal engine. Strong runner, efficient, & durable.
That radiator hose needs to be replaced yesterday.
So back in the day if grandma got kidnapped she could still get out of the trunk. If she had a flashlight to be able to read the diagram in the dark.😂😅😂😅
YES YES I LIKE THIS CADILLAC GENERAL MOTORS DID GOOD JOB 👍😁😁😁😁👍👍
For sale by chance?