Cadillac Solitaire

The Cadillac Solitaire was a concept car presented by the Cadillac division of General Motors in 1989. The luxury coupe had a V12 engine producing 430 hp, or 316 kW. The whole upper part of the body, from the lower edge of the windscreen to the rear window, was made of shatter-resistant safety glass. Headlights and tail lights vanished under body-coloured surfaces so that the car seemed to have no lighting, and the wheels were covered, the front covers swinging outward when the car steered. It had no outside mirrors. The long doors hung on double hinges and swung slightly forward as they opened, and the steering wheel moved away and the front seats slid forward to ease entry. Rumours of series production were never borne out, the Eldorado coupe of 1991 took its design from the Solitaire, and the car appears in several scenes of the film Demolition Man.