There is a piece missing though
What actually is the longest car ever? The answer is on your screen today, hopefully from the ‘widescreen’ category.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a Cadillac Fleetwood Series 75. Or just Series 75, whatever you prefer. The ‘Fleetwood’ during this period was a label that Cadillac applied arbitrarily, but a regular Fleetwood is a completely different model. Guaranteed shorter, moreover, because that applies to literally every other car ever produced. Apart from creations by some pre-war coachbuilders perhaps, and converted limousines don’t count either. This is about the title ‘longest regular production model’, and based on multiple sources, it absolutely goes to the Cadillac Series 75 of what Wikipedia calls the tenth generation. This was Cadillac’s factory limousine, almost a ‘stretched limo’ but without the endless no-man’s-land between front and rear doors.
What it did have was an extra high roof, an extra long rear door and behind that a whole section, including an extra side window and a rear screen with the length of a Toyota Aygo. Add to that the already space-inefficient design style of GM in the 70s, and you get a sedan that is ridiculously oversized in every way. More than two meters wide, almost one and a half meters high and especially impressively long. How long? Initially about 6.30 meters, but over the years Cadillac managed to make this giant even longer almost every year. This (once) pearl white car is from 1974, the first year in which this Cadillac also had to survive a 5 mph impact front and rear without a scratch in the US. As a result, a piece of plastic was simply added between the car and the rear bumper, and this moving whale grew to over 6.40 meters. Yes indeed: almost a meter longer than a brand new Mercedes-Maybach S-Class!
6.40 meters long, but there is a piece missing though.
The piece that was added in 1974, by the way, is also the piece that is missing here. The plastic added for the ‘impact bumpers’ usually doesn’t stand the test of time very well and has completely disappeared here. The rest of the car isn’t exactly in top condition either. Rust runs here and there from top to bottom over the white paint, several parts are missing, and everyone still doubting whether this Cadillac was really that wrong is definitively convinced by the gigantic chrome wheels. Still, we thought it deserved a place of honor, and that entirely because of that immense length.