1996 Cadillac DeVille SEDAN review from North America

We have had problems which we took care of. But what has me upset is that the striped screw that was causing heat from the engine to go into the coolant. Basically, this was a manifold leak, and on the North Star Engine is not fixable as it is a sealed engine. To me this is a design problem with this engine. They said to not fix the car as it would need a complete new engine which they would not guarantee and would cost $10,000. Now if they would have given a guarantee I would probably have fixed it. But, that was not the case. They suggested donating it to a charity. Needless to say we were very unhappy. They asked what car I would like to buy. I told them the best car I ever had was a 1959 Chevy Impala. That I would buy in a second. All the fancy mechanical devices they keep adding to the new cars make them harder to repair and cause more problems then they are worth. The 59 Chevy Impala gave us 300,000 trouble free miles. Only batteries, brakes and tires. Nothing big!

As far as general comments go I will admit that I loved driving the car. Beautiful ride. Good sound system. Very little road noise. All in all it was a beautiful car.