80 bucks for an oil change.
Anyway, I'm beginning to learn more about GM as a company before bankruptcy that my parents' Silverado didn't even begin to explain . The Seville was the Cadillac flagship, loaded with cool gadgets you couldn't get anywhere else in GM and priced to match. HID headlights. Real time adaptive suspension. Speed adjusting steering. Airbag front seats to conform to your body. Heated front and rear seats. You could even in theory get front massaging seats.
Except Night Vision, which you could only get on the lower spec DeVille. And rear windows that roll all the way down, despite the doors looking identical to those of the DeVille, which did allow it.
But something more interesting presented itself internal to the Seville range. I wanted a Seville with navigation, because I knew that it supported auxiliary audio input. Also because touch screens are "So money". So I got a car with navigation. And while learning how to wire it, I learned that the European spec Seville, as seen here with its perhaps superior-looking (albeit no doubt less functional) front bumper:
If you got navigation with that model, which I'm sure literally
several people did, GM happily wired the head unit (the exact same head unit, remember) for both audio and video in from the factory; with the connection in the glovebox. But the US model, which actually sold more than the average yearly production totals of Morgan, did not have that option. Similarly, though not related to this post, while the G-Platform was an infamously stiff one at the time of its creation, GM still saw fit to equip a strut tower bar to the car as standard equipment; which from the sound of it from people who have them turns an incredibly stiff car into something akin to an I Beam as far as chassis flex is concerned. And what country got this lovely piece that should have been standard everywhere, since it undoubtedly cost GM all of $5 to make? Not the German model, with its unrestricted top speed and Z Rated tires destined for the Autobahn.
No, the car that got this lovely bar that makes a pretty good handling car even better was only the one made in Japan. Which, with Japan's obscene car dimension, engine displacement and emissions tax laws, apparently was still a car that GM designed and expected people to buy. Again, in
Japan. Plus you can't find any for sale anymore because GM stopped making it; and I don't know if the one that was standard on the 🤬
Bonneville two years later (but again, not the flagship Cadillac sport sedan) will fit even though it looks like it will.
I think I went off topic. Anyway, look!
Now I can always listen to my favorite
songs from CARTOON HORSE PROGRAM actual songs from real bands I like. And since I neglected to take photos of the somewhat complex wiring harness I made to do so, I'll just say that now the radio is powered by Magic!
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