Sixty Special

Post-war OHV V8 · 1948–1949

Built from 1948 to 1949, the Cadillac Sixty Special is a sedan that runs a 5.4-litre eight-cylinder petrol engine with 160 PS and 423 Nm of torque. It comes with a manual gearbox.

158 hpPower

1948-1949Year

Engineering passport

Specifications

Powertrain

Engineering details

Displacement5.4 L

Cylinders8

FuelPetrol

TransmissionManual

Performance

Numbers that matter

Power158 hp

Torque423 Nm

STORY

The Sixty Special name first appeared in 1938 on a Bill Mitchell design. Cadillac revived it for 1987-1993 on a stretched, front-wheel-drive luxury sedan derived from the DeVille/Fleetwood C-body. It was a more formal, longer-wheelbase alternative built around GM's transverse V8, 4.1 liters at first, then 4.5 and later 4.9. It was the last time the Sixty Special name appeared on a Cadillac.

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