Someone scrapped a Rare Cadillac?! 

I love how the commenters here say it's forgettable and not worth saving but just by commenting on it alone you are disproving yourselves. I daily drive mine and see others all the time here in Colorado. You just gotta take care of your shit. Might not have been the best Cadillac but this one lasted 30+ years and mine still looks new; could not have been that badly built.

Cavalier in a tux..much like a Lincoln Versailles was a Granada in a tux. Too bad the front seats aren't in better shape or maybe you could import them into your Cavalier wagon project.

I know its popular to bash the Cimarron but the later models 1986-1988 were much better with the 2.8v6. I owned a super super rare Cimarron that outshines this one. It was a 1988 Cadillac Cimarron with the ultra rare 5-speed transmission. Yes a manual in a Cadillac. They only made 112 units with the 5 speed manual in 1988. It was a dark blue exterior with light grey lower color. Dark blue leather seats. I drove the car till 2003 with 285,000 miles on it with no major repairs. Car was great to me and the 5 speed transformed the fun factor. Got compliments all the time and when they looked inside and saw the manual transmission they always flipped.

The ONLY way that POS will go up in value, is if the price of scrap goes up! I've driven better cars into trees just for something to do.

Cool.

4:05, *for you kids that smoke cigarettes!* lol!

They also came with a 4 or 5 speed stick shift... that would be hilarious to drive!

Jay! If the Cadillac is not going to be out on the road, can you PLEASE take out the stereo before the whole car gets wasted and sent off to the Chinese? I'll be interested in buying the stereo. ^^

all that change, I'd say it's a "Jewish Cadillac " lol

GM was such a disaster back then and run by 3 martini lunch fools.

Everyone is hating on this car. Yeah it's a piece of ****. But in years to come it'll be one of the most rare classic cars of the 80s. And their value will absolutely go up! Definitely worth it to be saved for the right person!

those were actually pretty nice cars. my dad had an '83 cavalier wagon that he put 230K on with no engine nor transmission work. when he traded it in, they couldn't believe it had that many miles and was still in pretty good cosmetic and physical condition. the problem with the cimarron was you could buy 2 cavaliers for the same price.

It's still a thousand times better than what passes for a "Cadillac" today. Seemingly the last of these were vastly improved and actually did get some good reviews. I'd seriously consider saving it.

Well, it’s a terrible car. It’s literally a Cavalier that tried to compete against Mercedes and BMW. I’m almost certain that there are still many more out there.

the interior needs to be saved! Lots of great parts on that car! Or part out a Cavalier and save the Cadillac Cimarron!

That missing hood ornament is probably on a Pontiac somewhere...

This would be a 1st Gen GM J Body which included the Cavalier, the Pontiac 2000/Sunbird, Olds Ferenza, Buick Skyhawk and the Cimoron.

Oh, it's definitely rare---they didn't sell well to begin with, and just like the Cavalier, they fell apart pretty fast. Believe it or not, the 2.8 V6 was optional---the Cavalier 4 cylinder was standard.

The Cadillac Cimarron shared the J platform with the Chevy Cavalier, Buick Skyhawk, Oldsmobile Forenza, Buick Skyhawk, and Pontiac Sunbird it had nothing to do with the Chevy Beretta / Corsica platform. The Chevy celebrity share its platform with the Buick Century, Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera, and Pontiac 6000. The Chevy Corsica was between the Cavalier and the celebrity in Chevrolet's lineup added in 1987. The Catera was one of the worst most made fun of cars in Automotive History sharing every top 10 list with other winners like the Yugo gvl, and Hyundai Excel Mitsubishi precise

Jay Smart, if I were you I'd get that Cadillac out of there, it is rare I agree with you even rarer is that is a two tone colour very hard to find, plus it looks to be in good shape as far as condition, if you did get this car you would be owning something almost impossible to find today, if you were to repair it then you would have a fantastic looking car they are a very high en Chevy Cavalier in essence, to find a 1st gen cavalier is very rare especially with a cadillac, I think it's really cool that you made a video on it but please try and buy it if you can, I would be a happy man.

The Cimarron was a "J" body similar to the Cavalier/Sunbird/Firenza/Buick Skyhawk. It was not in the class with the Celebrity, which was an "A" body similar to the Buick Century/Olds Ciera/Pontiac 6000. GM took a lot of flack for trying to sell a Cadillac wrapped in a subcompact Chevy body with Chevy quality. At the time Cadillac buyers were used to the big land yacht Cadillacs.

my dad's boss was a huge Cadillac man. his daughter had one of these. his wife had a seville...the one where the ass looks chopped off, and he drove a fleetwood.

It was a Cimarron BY Cadillac. NOT a pure Caddie. Cynical badge engineering. But now a curiosity!

I remember the Cadillac Cimarron which was a dressed up Chevrolet Cavalier but in my opinion still looked nice when new which looked one over in 1986 when the dealer was closed on a Sunday. To be honest I wanted one but the I was still in high school until May 1986 when graduated. Your right, it is rare.

This is sad it's like seeing a citation being wasted away. Even though they are shitty, cheaply made cars they shouldn't be scrapped!

Motor week retro reviews has a video of this car.

Well, that's not the last one on the road. The Cimarron is a "J" body car, along with the Chevy Cavalier, Pontiac Sunbird, Oldsmobile Firenza, and the Buick Skyhawk. The Celebrity is an "A" body car along with the Buick Century and Olds Cutlass Cierra. My parents bought a 1984 Cimarron brand new in May 1985 with just under 80 miles on it. Totally loaded just as the one shown here, but in blue and with the Chevy 2.0 engine. It has been passed down in the family and my niece drives this car every day still. It has 356K miles on it. The transmission was rebuilt and 278K. If taken care of, such as ours, they are very reliable and can last a long time. They are better than the bad rap they've been given. I did change the 13" alloy wheels to 14" steel wheels to give me a wider range of choices for better quality tires.

You should keep that car with all the old classics in a few years that car will be a even more rare.

that 3 speed is the TH125 trans, they arent the best gearing but reliable. they are good transmission

Cimarron was a J-body. Same as Sunfire,Sunbird and Cavalier. It did not share the L-body platform with the Beretta/Corsica.

Nice Cavalier.... wait, I meant Cadillac.

and i used to think my dad a car dealer was the bees knees in the uk with a 2 litre 8 valve vauxhall/opel cavalier while you guys only had a standard 2.8 v6 how did you overtake

These were built from 1982-1988.

We've got an 87 Pontaic Sunbird Safari, it's even more rare than this :)

I literally LOLed when I read the title then saw a Cimarron in the thumbnail. I'll admit I actually really like the Cimarron and Pontiac 2000/Sunbird versions of this platform

The Beretta/Corsica/Celebrity/6000/Ciera/Century/Cutlass Supreme/Regal/Lumina/Grand Prix/Grand Am/Skylark/Acheieva were based on the Citation's "X" platform, not the Cavalier's "J" platform. I love the approach someone took to removing the hood ornament.

My aunt had one when I was a kid

Lol I do the same when I find a penny, pick up with the side with Lincoln's head. I thought I was thr only one.

"Cadillac"

This needs some 22s hahaha

They always looked like a overpriced cavalier to me! My mom friend has one since new and still looks absolutely new. I actually like 70's-80's economy cars.

2.8 is a POS MOTOR.

I used to hate these cars when I was little thought they were some ugly cars ever based on being the Anti-Cavalier twin a Kindergarten teacher doing the time I was in Kindergarten had one of these it was White with Two tone paint. I haven't seen one in years interior is nice the car looks like something Herman Monster or Grandpa would drive strange now like these cars guess got funny taste (lol.) But a boring old fashion Cadillac as I said look like something Herman Monster or Grandpa would drive as their grocery getter who in the world name a car Cimarron rhymes with Cinnamon Roll must have been something wrong with GM.

The Jbody Caddy! Never understood why they got so much hate. That 2.8L Engine is nearly bullet proof.

Beretta and corsica were the same platform, not related to the cavalier. -the cavalier, sunbird, and cimarron were on the J body. -pontiac 6000, olds cutlass ceira, chevy celebrity, and buick century were the A body platform. - full sized FWD cars..... the bonneville and buick lesabre were H body - cutlass supreme, chevy lumina, and pontiac grand prix were W body -grand am and buick skylark N platform there you go basic run down of older GM platforms.

The J bodies were the Chevrolet Caviler Pontiac J 2000 Oldsmobile Firenza Cadillac Cimarron Buick Skyhawk.

A J-Body with leather interior LOL! Put some Daytons on it to even it out.

Worst caddy ever. Rare doesnt always equal worth something. Crush it

It’s a nice looking but overall a bad car. This is Cadillac. Cadillac should be building luxury cars, not compact economy cars. They absolutely had no right to obtain the J-body platform, but they decided to ruin themselves by Cadillac-izing an even better Cavalier and call it a day. Honestly, I would really rather buy a Cavalier, or a Sunbird, or a Skyhawk, or a Firenza, which were much better cars than the Cimarron. What were they thinking back then? If they wanted to make a car called the "Cimarron" then why couldn’t they come up with something better than this? And why would I even waste my money on this thing when I could by a nicely reserved Cavalier/Sunbird/Skyhawk/Firenza?

You mean a Cadillac Caviler. All this was an overpassed piece of shit Caviler/Sunbird. When this came out it had a 4 cylinder this was on the J Platform. Cadillac Cimarron/Sunbird/Oldsmobile Firenza, Buck Skylark from 1987-991) Buck Shy hawk were all on the J Platform.

It's rare alright....and no one cares. Cadillac's putrid attempt and creating a compact car by building it off the Cavalier platform. Terrible Idea!

The Cadillac Cimarron was part of Gm's J-Body line shared with the J2000, SkyHawk, Sunbird, Firenza and Cavalier Please buy the car if you can get it.

You sure didn't seem to be concerned about scrapping your 1986 Laser XT... why should you care about this one either?

Cadillac Cimarrón based chasis Opel Ascona C es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Cimarron

It's rare because they were horrible pieces of junk that nobody liked. It's a Cavalier with leather seats and Caddy badges. Garbage.

I got a Ascona C, same "body". 20 000 miles on it since 1984. so pretty nice picked it up untouched with license plate (have been registerd and driven every year). Old man had it. paid 2400 dollars for it (cheap in Norway) if you want a lets say shitty BMW E39 your looking at a pretty 6000 dollar. with like 150 000 miles

In its original appearance it was the Opel Ascona C from 1981 to 1988 in Germany. And i also have laugh about the fact that americans call a 2.8 litre engine as economic! The Ascona had engines from 1.3 up to 2.0 litre from 60bhp up to 130bhp. These were really economic!

In South Carolina the kids that sit in the back probably do smoke cigarettes. LoL

Here in hungary we call this car the little europe cadillac. The swiss and dutch people love the little Cimarron too. For our small roads and small streets is this size of car perfect.

No one is critical of Honda for making an Acura version of the Civic. GM's problem wasn't making a Cadillac version of a small Chevy car. Cadillac's problem was taking a small car that wasn't very highly thought of and not changing it nearly enough when they made it a Cadillac.

WOW! Somebody scraped a Chevrolet Cavalier!

Man, send that thing to Michigan. I'll drive the wheels off it. Compared to Michigan cars, that's a clean piece.

No 4 speed auto, for what one paid for this car, LOL Corolla and Civic had 4 speed Auto available

It's rare, but not a "classic" by any means. Was a knee jerk reaction to gas crisis. Just took a Cavalier and added trim, nothing more. Early models got same 1.8/2.0 4 banger. No, the J car didn't share platform with Celebrity, and barely related to Barretta. Cimarron was dead by '88.

The only reason that piece of junk is rare is because it's a cavalier in Cadillac clothes. Why would you pay Cadillac prices for a Chevy Cavalier? One of the dumbest marketing ploys General Motors ever did.

Cimarron was a J car, one of the rare if not only the only time that every car division of GM had a model in the lineup. Chevy had the Cavalier, Pontiac the J 2000, Buick the Skyhawk and Oldsmobile the Fireanza. Cadillac's looked more like a gussied up Chevy than a Cadillac at least the Buick and Oldsmobile versions used a nicer dashboard, where Cadiillac just shared with Cheverolet. GM was truly a WTF when they came out with this and sold it for twice as much as the Cavalier.

Thats not rare. You could find one in any junkyard in America. That is where they belong. Should have gone to junk the minute they rolled off the assembly line.

that p.o.s caddie? that car was the biggest mistake they made and it will NEVER be worth anything NEVER

Daddy never was the Cadillac kind. Lol that thing is different that's for sure

Has not to give up well on!!! It makes left the American automobile heritage, thus it is has to keep and has to resell possibly. really nice this little cadillac ! And the dark blue buick "park avenue", you crush it?

Too bad it's not a digital cluster or I'd buy it from ya.

Vauxhall Cavalier mk2/Opel Ascona C, once the most scrapped car in the UK at one point, down to penny numbers, euro cars had horrible OHC engines that ate camshaft lobes, same basic shell in white, and also prone to suffer severe bulkhead/firewall cracks, the start of GM Europe's decline, and now GM Europe is gone

Hey ummm.......do you have any 1998 cadillac devils

It is basically a dressed up Cavalier. I believe they used to call those "The Poor Man's Cadillac"

And this is what a multi-billion dollar company came up with to compete with Audi, BMW and Mercedes sports sedans, By putting power windows on there 2nd cheapest Chevy

Looks like the pigeon car x drift racing

i have a neighbor who still drives a cadillac cimarron , not sure what year it is , but a very nice looking little car , and i drive a 96 cadillac fleetwood brougham .

A shame someone did such a shitty job removing the radiator and the battery. Leatherheads, Cimarron was the first compact car that I can name that was based off of a cheaper variant, think of it today as the Volkswagen Golf and Audi A3

All of the cars on that platform are called 'J' cars, ironically the letter adjacent to Chrysler's K Cars.

Rare yes, not at all desirable. The only time a Cimarron was good was when they were used and sold for the same price as a Cavilier - thus being a “better” buy

Knowing cadilac that things not even close to loaded, they take pride in making their vehicles

I wonder if you saved this car Jay Smart? because as I stated before in the comments this thing is rare

Shit should have been scrapped before it was even produced

As an sts-v owner, that is so embarrassing to think that car had the same badge as mine. crush it as soon as possible. I'm sure every other caddy owner feels the same. Rated as one of the worst cars of all time. remember one coming into the wrecker I worked at in the late nineties. think it was an 87 or 88. had different headlights as this one.

A friend of the family had a gold one. She traded it in on a new Chrysler PT Stupid ! lol

I remember that when my dad went into a GM showroom to buy a smaller car he looked at the Cimarron and an Olds Firenza wagon. Both were around the same price,but my dad felt the Olds drove better and had more storage room being a wagon. Plus,it was a heck of a lot cheaper to insure than than the Cimarron(due to anything with the Cadillac brand on it getting a heck of a coverage mark up). So,my dad went with the Firenza and we got 12 trouble free years out of it.

LoL, why does the front and rear bumpers have holes on each end? That's weird.

My mom has one but it has lots of engine issues which we just put a whole new engine in it we don't even know how we got the engine you just found it somewhere and desert somewhere we just grabbed it Toyota fan

Cimarron was much worse than the Catera; it's just a tarted up Cavalier.

Lipstick on a pig! GMs darkest days....LOL

at a cavalier price point if was a chevy here we would be saying it was a good deal, as a Cadillac it's dog shit

I bet that was a very pleasant car when it was new, possibly with the exception of the vulgar red interior lol. All the same, a shame to see it end up in this state.

Nice throwback to 87, I think all of these were that same color.

hi jay i can asure u its not the last one on the road myaunt and uncle in south ga have on 1 and they have had it since new its garage kept from frankie jacques37 london uk

These are great as "footballs" in a demolition derby.

Would love to have that car if some jackass hadn't destroyed it too bad to fix.

Should have been sent to the scrapyard after production.

My first 3 cars were cads but I always hated the cimarron

Is that Cavalier Cadillac a 1985 cause it sure has that old look to it

Paul Harvey said it was so bad it was a disgrace to put Cadillac hub caps on it