The 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz is lowered virtually to the max on dark rims, it looks mean

Cadillac, America’s quintessential luxury automaker, has always had a penchant for cool names. Take the Escalade, for example, which essentially did just that. It scaled and overcame the misconceptions that full-size, truck-based, body-on-frame SUVs couldn’t be luxury items.

But there are many examples of other iconic nameplates. Not within the current ICE-powered lineup, with a few exceptions. The CT4 and CT5, the XT4 plus XT5 and XT6, while good vehicles in their own right, aren’t exactly the stuff of legend when it comes to their nicknames. The Blackwing is one such exception, and they’re changing the way they do EV business: The Optiq, Lyriq, Vistiq, Escalade IQ and Celestiq all sound pretty much the same and could become unforgettable soon.

However, none of them quite reach the glorious star power of the Cadillac Eldorado moniker, right? A contraction of two Spanish words and also a play on the infamous El Dorado legend, the Caddy Eldorado was the company’s definitive personal luxury car throughout its career, which spanned from 1952 to 2002 across twelve generations and a half-century.

There were even nicknames associated with them that became famous in their own right: the Eldorado Seville (a city in southern Spain) and the Eldorado Biarritz (a luxurious seaside resort in southern France) were used to distinguish the hardtop and convertible models between 1956 and 1960, both the Seville and the Biarritz becoming beautiful in their own right after that. There was also the Fleetwood, which also had a separate career.

In any case, thanks to its abundance of iterations, everyone has their favorite, even in the parallel universes of vehicular CGI. As such, the imaginative realm of automotive digital content creators constantly proposes interpretations of unofficial and hypothetical design projects. Recently, Sylvain Reiniche, the virtual artist behind sylvain.reiniche.design social media account, was digitally playing with this iconic Caddy and decided to make a 1959 Eldorado Biarritz (convertible) his own. The ruse was simple: He transformed it into a fully-tuned Caddy that would earn Darth Vader's approval with its all-black appearance.

It sits on 19-inch all-wheels, is also dressed in black and looks both sleek and extreme. Unlike other pixel masters who only think about the design and don’t care too much about the interior, this CGI expert also dressed the interior in black, as far as we know, got rid of all the chrome details and also cooked up a fantastic V8 powerplant, a 650-hp big-block from the Corvette series! So, what do you think? Would you build such a menacing Caddy Eldorado Biarritz if you had the time and money, or is it too extreme for your dream garage?