Size Does Matter: The History of the Limousine

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A 4-door sedan is basically a limousine, no matter what lenght.

My all-time favorite limo is the 1953 Imperial that Humphrey Bogart rode around in, in the 1954 movie, "Sabrina.". It said "I'm rich," but said it with class.

Good video. The Beast is built on GM’s heavy duty, commercial truck platform, not the Escalade’s. “Comfort creatures” 😂

“Despite the economic malaise of the 80’s”? Were you born yesterday? The 1980’s was a decade of economic resurgence that laid the foundation for an economic boom that lasted nearly 25 years. This economic growth in the 1980’s is what fueled the demand for limousines that you mention. That demand occurred because of economic prosperity not in spite of economic malaise. You must have meant the economic malaise of the 70’s where high inflation and then stagflation made everyone poor. You were off by a decade. You need to stop parroting Wikipedia for all of your video content.

Ed, you do struggle sometimes to not sound like LazerPig . Go on, release the inner porker within...

What a lesson ! the same is tought in the bodyguard and chauffeur schools.

are you the guy from the virtual barbershop?

Other documentaries reveal The Beast is actually based on a Heavy Duty truck platform. Its appearance as a Cadillac is mostly cosmetic.

ECLS Limousine is Frauding the Treasury for Trillions

Apperently there is a company in the UK that rents out stretched APC's for whatever you think is fun.

Great video as always. If you do another video on. stretch limo, include clips from Car Wash with the Daddy Rich Limo and, the mafia families of NYC, USA. and their Burgandy Lincoln limos. Thanks!

The American Dream is dead. Literally look it up. Junkyarded a shame. Kinda like the other American Dream!

I like your videos, but my understanding of limousines, say Cadillac is this: A limo is really two two door sedans cut up and put back together with the rear seat being BEHIND the back door opening. Scale Auto Enthusiast did an article on making a limo from two Cadillac two doors. The "stretch" limos we see on the streets are just four door sedans cut up with a section put in the middle so the rear seat passengers enter just like any other four door. Take a look at a 1950 to 1958 Caddy or Imperial limo and you will see the proportions. Just my opinion from looking at a lot of real limos.

Limos are actually dangerous. Look at their statistics.

The U.S. Presidential limo is not based on Escalade, rather it is a Kodiak HD truck.

So if a normal car has the drive separated from the back in some way it is a Limousine?
Does that include taxis and cars with a screen that lifts up?

In the early 90s I worked at a Cadillac dealer. We had several various stretched limos come in for service and repair. The most ridiculous one, though, was an 8 wheel behemoth with a hot tub in the back. People would ask, "how does that work?" It doesn't. You couldn't legally (or practically) drive it with water in the tub. So if someone rented it, they could ride in the interior (still carried up to 17 passengers like a standard stretch) but if you wanted to use the tub it had to be parked and you had to wait the 4-6 hours it took the fill and heat the tub. Then it stayed parked the whole time it was full of water. Oh, and it took about 15-30 minutes to drain before it could be driven again.

Also, turning was fun. The car would pivot on the center rear axle where the diff was; the other wheels would drag.

I think a custom van with the captain chairs is much more comfortable. And some girls like the built in bed😉

Found out recently via Facebook marketplace , that the bmw issetta had a limousine version from factory

Always loved the style of 1980's limo. The Cadillac's and Lincoln Town Car limos of that era were really the peak of limos imo.

Ed left out the stretched AMC Pacer Limo featured in Wayne's World 2.😉

"The beast" is NOT an Escalade, it's a GM Top Kick.

A local undertaker had a stretched chevy impala, while all his competitors had caddies. It always seemed to me like a wasted effort on such a downmarket car when the customer was wanting to show off.

The story of how the Americans invented the marshrutka jitney, funny and informative.

The Mako should've had a 302, to strike a middle ground between the 289 and 351, while also making it Trans Am series compliant.

I'm wholly surprised you didn't take advantage of the early 2000s retro craze, and use the vertical grill on an open-wheel, Prowler/Panoz-esque, roadster. It would've been a great send-off for the 300 inline 6.

:( repost with a full clip of long instead of edited OO0

I was waiting to see a picture of DJT in a limo, and you put one in. Thank you :D.

Great as always!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, you forgot the coachbuilding pioneers of the modern stretched limousine: Pete peterson and Skip Lehmann, founders of Lehmann-Peterson when they stretched a Lincoln Continental and got a partnership with Ford and opened the way to others like Stageway and Moloney.

Minute 8,1 what model of car is it? Abd minute 13,46

When I first saw a stretched limo I thought it was a one-off joke.

The beast is based on a gmc topkick/chevy Kodiak, not an Escalade. The body is resembling of Cadillac, but it’s all medium duty truck underneath

If there's anything I've seen in styles and trends, it's that the limousine will probably become stylish again at some point. But yeah, any car can be made into a limo, I even saw a Trabant limousine in Budapest a while back and I couldn't help but chuckle...

The way you said the word "Long" all long like that was funny.

On the other hand, there are a lot of scratched limousines around

I know that in cuba you have LADA LIMOUSINES🤤

Bespoke airport limousines were sometimes a little bit more stylish than the Checker and Chevy examples. The 1956 and 1959 Cadillac Broadmoor Skyview airport limousines were custom built for the Broadmoor Hotel and used to transport guests to and from the airport.

Money No Object!! I Would want a Stretch Limo based on the Jaguar XJ Types! Have always liked the sexy look of them!

It's crazy that as I've grown older I've realized limousine are only used for prom night. But even party buses gave taken over that.

great video!

In German, Limousine is the word for sedan while Pullman is the word for the english Limousine and Stretch-Limousine is the word for stretched Limousine

The bussel back limos look so dumb😂😂😂