Cadillac Concept Gets Solid Wood Integrated Into Interior

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Cadillac’s Ciel concept car has a dashboard and seatbacks with wooden accents. At first you think “Big deal, I’ve seen that before”; but look closer and you realize the wood isn’t veneer—it’s solid.

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CoolHunting’s got the skinny on how GM’s Global Design Studio, combining old and new manufacturing techniques, CNC’d the crap out of some rare, 300-year-old olive wood after running it through a 70-year-old planer:

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