{"id":38950,"date":"2022-12-23T10:29:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T15:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=38950"},"modified":"2022-12-23T10:29:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T15:29:56","slug":"cadillac-goddess-rolls-royce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=38950","title":{"rendered":"Cadillac Goddess is Back to Challenge Rolls-Royce’s Spirit of Ecstasy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rolls-Royce is very proud of its Spirit of Ecstasy<\/a> hood ornament. To Rolls, it\u2019s more than just a hood ornament, it\u2019s a symbol of opulence and heritage. I\u2019ll admit that there\u2019s something very special about driving a Rolls and seeing the flying lady leading the way, at the end of a long, V12-powered hood. Rolls isn\u2019t the only brand with a cool hood ornament\u2014Bentley has the a flying \u2018B\u2019 and Mercedes has the three-pointed star\u2014but Rolls\u2019 is certainly the best. Maybe not for long, though. Cadillac is bringing back the \u2018Goddess\u2019 for the upcoming Celestiq<\/a> and it\u2019s just as special as the Spirit of Ecstasy.<\/p>\n

Cadillac\u2019s Goddess hood ornament was first used in 1930 but didn\u2019t become a Cadillac staple until 1933. That\u2019s quite a bit after the Spirit of Ecstasy first debuted, in 1909. And considering how similar they are, it\u2019s almost impossible that the Spirit didn\u2019t at least mildly inspire William N. Schnell, who designed the Cadillac Goddess.<\/p>\n

Similar to the Spirit of Ecstasy, the Goddess is a sculpture of a woman, whose windswept gown resembles wings, as her chest projects forward and arms sweep backward. The similarities to the Spirit of Ecstasy are impossible to ignore. Though, that\u2019s not a bad thing. Mimicry is the highest form of flattery. I will say, though, that \u2018Goddess\u2019 is a better name than \u2018Spirit of Ecstasy.\u2019 It\u2019s one word, easy to remember, and it instantly creates powerful imagery in the mind. Spirit of Ecstasy is cool name but it\u2019s kind of vague and doesn\u2019t really mean anything.<\/p>\n

When Cadillac\u2019s flagship electric luxury car, the Celestiq, debuts it will carry the Goddess on its hood, as well as inside the cabin. She\u2019ll stand proudly, pointing the way for the driver, but she\u2019ll also be encased in glass in the infotainment dial inside the car. The dial turns independently of the Goddess, so she always stays upright, which a very Rolls-Royce thing to do. Also, you\u2019ll find her on the milled billet aluminum plaques throughout the car. There\u2019s even a Goddess symbol in the charge port, which illuminates as its charging.<\/p>\n

GM designer Richard Wiquist created the new Goddess, using the original \u201930s sculpture as inspiration. Now, there are two great hood ornaments for ultra high-end luxury cars. The Celestiq will be a hand-built, $300,000 electric luxury car, one that intends to compete with Rolls-Royce. When it debuts, Rolls will have the Spectre<\/a>, its own electric luxury car with its own special hood ornament. So it will be exciting to see them together, to compare how each brand went about electrification and how their flying ladies compare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rolls-Royce is very proud of its Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament. To Rolls, it\u2019s more than just a hood ornament, it\u2019s a symbol of opulence and heritage. I\u2019ll admit that there\u2019s something very special about driving a Rolls and seeing the flying lady leading the way, at the end of a long, V12-powered hood. Rolls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}