What was I just recently saying?  Well, in the past few weeks since this further update, the visual confirmation has been steadily reconfirming itself.  One example:  The ELR commercial that played countless times during the Olympics– a well-cast and even better-scripted spot which I very much appreciate, by the way.

Wider, flatter, wreathless. (Photo: AP)

So be it.  Cadillac has made its decision.  The insignia’s wreath is dead and will soon be gone– via a slow fade into history like so much else of the original emblem.  And who knows, this newest look might just grow on me yet– and that’s really a maybe.  Meanwhile, I still miss those long-lost ducks.