Cadillac Eldorado Fastback

The Cadillac Eldorado Fastback, designated XP-840, was a concept car that the Cadillac division of General Motors presented in 1965. The Cadillac design centre had worked on it since 1963, and the sports car came to resemble, at a distance, the Chevrolet Corvette of the 1960s and 1970s. It had an extremely long, contoured bonnet pulled down to the beltline at the front, with the main headlights below the beltline, and a flat V-shaped windscreen that wrapped round to the B-pillars. The fastback had no rear window but a slot in the middle where a reversing camera could replace the interior mirror, and it ended in a recessed rear panel that leaned forward. The show car had no engine, although it was laid out to take a V16, which would have made it a supercar. In the end Cadillac stayed with the V8.