1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais next to a 1986 Cadillac Seville. It’s hard to underestimate the sheer incompetence of 1980s GM.

Twenty thousand 1980s dollars separated the GM flagship (yes, the Seville, despite not being the largest, was GM's most expensive car at the time, priced in the low to mid 30k range) from the compact that was barely a half step above the Cavalier. And in-person even when standing right next to one, the Eldorado/Seville don't look anywhere near as large as they are. Some of that's due to different standards for cars today (like greenhouse size); but a lot of it is due to the weird proportions that most of Rybicki's cars had in general.

And the 3rd-gen Seville shared nothing in common whatsoever with the much more economized N-body Calais/Grand Am/Skylark. It had a different platform, different engines, different sheet metal, and different drivetrain, yet still managed to look like a phoned-in rebadge.

Adding insult to injury, unless you opted for the rather pricey Seville STS, chances are that the Cutlass Calais was the better car to drive. Most 3rd-gen Sevilles either had the atrocious 4.1L V8 making 130hp (the same amount of hp as the NON FUEL INJECTED V6 in the Chevrolet Citation), or the 4.5L V8 making 155. Meanwhile, most Calais models were equipped with the quad-four making 150-160hp. At least you could say that Seville had a plush interior though.