Rising up as a car-obsessed youngster, my household knew that every one I ever wished was books about automobiles, exhibits about automobiles, and flicks about automobiles. From books about development gear to VHS tapes about supercars, I consumed as a lot automotive media as doable, however there was one type of automobile that all the time reigned supreme: the stretch limo. I’m sufficiently old to recollect seeing photographs of film stars and pop princesses rising from impossibly lengthy limos in my grandpa’s Nationwide Enquirer magazines, however recognizing limos these days is a a lot much less widespread incidence than it was method again then. On this video, Enterprise Insider explores the rise and fall of those now-passé technique of transportation.
What higher time to discover the now-antiquated, ostentatious, and tasteless developments that grew to recognition within the extreme ’80s than once we’re additionally making ready for the second time period of President Donald Trump. Again in 1988 Trump really collaborated with Cadillac to create the Trump Sequence of limousines. Unsurprisingly that enterprise was a spectacular failure that resulted in simply two prototype Trump Sequence Cadillac stretch limos ever being produced.
These days, the uber wealthy are likely to both drive themselves in opulent automobiles, or they’ve drivers who ferry them round within the again seat of blacked out Vary Rovers and Escalades. The U.S. president might proceed to be escorted round in The Beast, the customized and unfathomably fortified Cadillac limousine, however other than that, limos are simply passe. Is it a nasty factor? Not essentially. I feel the limousine has had its heyday, and now the world has moved on.