The Cadillac Le Mans was a two passenger car, developed by the Cadillac division of General Motors in 1953. It was named after the famous 24 hour race of Le Mans in France, in which Cadillac participated in 1950 for the very first time. The sports car with a glass fiber reinforced plastic body only had a height of 1295mm measured up to the windscreen frame. The concept car had a unique panorama windscreen. The V8 engine had a cubic capacity of 5424ccm. Cadillac only realized the engine power in 1955 though. The total length of the Le Mans was 4978mm. Four units were built in total, a batch production was never initiated and it took more than 50 years until Cadillac developed a car with a similar concept, the XLR. Out of the four cars ever made one was destroyed during a fire; the other three still exist, one of them is currently in the Cadillac collection.