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29/09/2025 9:31 pm
'56 Cadillac or Lincoln?
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John Bono
North Jersey
30/09/2025 4:12 am
The Lincoln is one of my favorite American 1950s cars. They got the styling so right. The Cadillac looks great too, but the Lincoln wins.
Retired in Dunedin, Florida.
30/09/2025 4:55 am
The Cadillac is iconic. But the Lincoln, for fifty-six is just a doll baby. Premiere for the win.
30/09/2025 6:51 am
Both great cars, but the Lincoln has all of the best styling for '56
John Merritt
South Lyon, Michigan - USA
30/09/2025 6:58 am
The Cadillac is very nice but everything about the Lincoln is perfect. The designers got every detail just right and then the following year screwed everything up. LINCOLN.
30/09/2025 7:26 am
CADILLAC!
The '56 is hands down (IMO) the most beautifully styled and richest looking automobile of the 1950's. No other car from any of the Big Three or Independents gave us a car with more Royalty in appearance attached to it.
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
30/09/2025 7:38 am
Both cars are terrific but I give the nod by a very slim margin to the iconic Cadillac design, which IMHO was consistently attractive from '48 thru '58. Most Lincoln designs thru this same time frame fell far short of Cadillac; but the '56 Lincoln was gorgeous.
30/09/2025 7:50 am
I love them both, but I like the Caddy styling better. Now if the '56 Imperial were in there, that would have been my pick.💯
30/09/2025 8:19 am
Love the Lincoln but the Cadillac styling for this era does not appeal.
30/09/2025 8:23 am
Both are great, but I just prefer the Cadillac for its Styling.
30/09/2025 9:48 am
Cadillac's always looked bloated[fat] and way too opulent for my taste [oh look at me I have got too much money and like to waste it on totally unnecessary opulence]. Not a luxury car fan to start with, until the '56 Lincoln Premiere followed by the '57 Cadillac series 62, '62 Cadillac, '69 - '71 Mark III, '62 Chrysler 300, '70 Chrysler 300 Hurst these few are the only luxury cars I care for the looks [styling of] but would not have bought any of them. I prefer function ability to glitz. Today I drive a Subaru Forester Wilderness not a Lexus or Cadillac.
30/09/2025 11:25 am
...Today I drive a Subaru Forester Wilderness not a Lexus or Cadillac.
Same. I like an intelligent, unpretentious vehicle. I've had this one for 11+ years and it's going nowhere.
Retired in Dunedin, Florida.
Tony Perrone reacted
30/09/2025 12:27 pm
C'mon Ed...how can a '56 Caddy be called non-intelligent and pretentious? And furthermore when did pretentious become a bad quality?
p.c. I just traded in my Cadillac for a Mitsubishi Outlander.....does that make me a hypocrite? 
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