The Cadillac emblem--commonly known as the wreath and crest--has been redesigned more than 30 times over the past 100 years to reflect changes in the company's culture, but the familiar color scheme remains the same: black, red, grey, yellow, silver and blue.

Cadillac's first automobiles were two-seat horseless carriages powered by a 10 hp (7 kW) single-cylinder engine.

The gas cap was cleverly concealed behind the left rear tail light.

The 2-seater runabout was originally priced at $750.

Al Capone's 1928 Cadillac was one of the first armored cars ever made. It was impounded by the government when Capone was sentenced to Alcatraz prison and would later become Franklin D. Roosevelt's Presidential vehicle.

Hydramatic was the first mass-produced fully automatic transmission developed for passenger automobile use.

The similarity of these conical bumper guards to the then popular bullet bra, as epitomized by buxom television personality Dagmar, was inescapable.

A 1905 advertisement declared "You can kill a horse but not a Cadillac."

After a dispute between Henry Ford and his investors, Ford left the company in 1902. Ford's financial backers called in engineer Henry M. Leland to appraise the plant and equipment in preparation for liquidating the company's assets, but Leland persuaded them to continue manufacturing automobiles using his single-cylinder engine. A new company called the Cadillac Automobile Company was established on 22 August 1902, re-purposing the Henry Ford Company factory at Cass Street and Amsterdam Avenue.

For an extra $100, buyers could get a detachable rear-entrance tonneau that doubled the occupant capacity.