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Originally Posted by theholycow
I loved the ride in my '87 FWD deVille.
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You're kidding right?
They would wallow around for a few seconds after every bump. Apparently, to Cadillac engineers, a comfortable ride meant very little compression or rebound damping and springs out of a click type ball point pen.
and the steering? It was not exactly precise. Vague would best describe it. Again the Cadillac engineers decided that comfort should mean completely isolating the driver from the driving experience. Like they were trying to make the steering feel like the predecessor's recirculating ball steering, but worse.
Going 70 over a long bridge with big expansion joints would have been scary. Fortunately the HT-4100 would have broken down long before 70 mph was acheived.
It took GM a couple of attempts after the outstanding ZL1 to properly build an aluminum motor. The linerless Vega motor and Cadillac HT-4100 were collosal failures along the way to the again outstanding LS-es