As a car body style, a brougham was initially a vehicle similar to a limousine but with an outside seat in front for the chauffeur and an enclosed cabin behind for the passengers. This use of the term derives from the light, fashionable brougham carriage of the nineteenth century. During the first two decades of the twentieth century, the term was also applied to a two-door closed vehicle similar to a coupé, especially one electrically driven.[1]
Cadillac first used the name on their Cadillac Brougham, a large, fully closed car, in 1916.
The name "Brougham" has since been used as a model name by Cadillac, Daewoo, and Holden, and as a trim package on sedan models by most US car manufacturing divisions of General Motors, Ford Motor Company, and the Chrysler Corporation. As a trim package, the name is used to denote the more comfortably appointed versions of a given model.
Examples include: