Cadillac made her an option on its V8, V12, and V16 cars. Two other sculptors in the same subsidiary refined her looks in 1933. Cadillac put her on the V16 models in 1934, then on the eight- and ...

Car hood ornaments are a bit old-fashioned these days, but you can still find them on some luxury cars. These are the most famous pieces of hood decor ever.

Hood ornaments are all but gone in modern cars, but decades ago automakers had a bit more taste, adorning their cars with evocative symbols of speed and beauty. Cadillac, for example, had its ...

This 1954 HWM Cadillac-engined race car, for example, ... If there’s one feature I miss from old cars, it’s the hood ornament. If there’s one feature I miss from old cars, ...

Cadillac on Wednesday published new teasers for the Celestiq concept car. In a press release, Cadillac calls its latest ... but a newfangled take on Cadillac's old "flying goddess" hood ornament.

Equal parts beautiful and dangerous, the hood ornament reputedly dates all the way back to the chariots of Egyptian Pharaohs.. As a sculpture on the prow of a car, though, hood ornaments evolved ...

The winged motometer on Grandpa's Model T. The chrome star on Mom's Mercedes. For decades, hood ornaments identified the beginning of a car and the height of an automaker's branding. But styles ...

For decades, hood ornaments identified the beginning of a car and the height of an automaker’s branding. They’ve receded considerably since, reflecting the changing definitions of luxury ...

HOLLYWOOD — Someone took 22 hood ornaments worth $330 from 22 Cadillac’s Saturday, police said. The cars were parked in a lot in the 3500 block of North State Road 7, police said. No one saw ...

Now that Cadillac has been given the funding and freedom to create cars like the Celestiq (potentially) worthy of the brand's heyday, it is (potentially) fitting that an icon of that heyday returns.