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We had a Silhouette like that one and loved it. 3800 made it haul ***, these weren't heavy vehicles. One time my mom was in such a hurry to get to work, got pulled over, and the cop said he for a second was having trouble keeping up. LOL.
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The plastic bodies and space-frames on the Dustbusters saved a lot of weight....and dents/corrosion. I've long-complained that one of the dumbest moves GM ever did was when they stopped using plastic body panels on not only them, but on Saturn.
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It was pretty nice, it had leather and a power sliding door---GM brought that out first.
I still remember the test drive..."wow this has good pickup!" She was coming from a 102hp Galant. The 3800 Olds Van was a Corvette compared to that, tonnnns of torque.
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I still remember the test drive..."wow this has good pickup!" She was coming from a 102hp Galant. The 3800 Olds Van was a Corvette compared to that, tonnnns of torque.
If you think the normally-aspirated 3.8 in those vans had good pickup, you should have sampled the supercharged 3.8 that was used in some GM high-performance sedans/coupes.
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Yep.....the hardware for the first power-sliding doors on the Honda Odyssey was actually bought from GM.
If you think the normally-aspirated 3.8 in those vans had good pickup, you should have sampled the supercharged 3.8 that was used in some GM high-performance sedans/coupes.
If you think the normally-aspirated 3.8 in those vans had good pickup, you should have sampled the supercharged 3.8 that was used in some GM high-performance sedans/coupes.
They also got 30mpg highway in some cases, from nearly 4 liters of displacement made with/from 1980s tech. Worth pointing out in today's world of efficiency so important to some.
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Man, I better come up with a name for my Y. Maybe @bitkahuna ? I could also get a personalized plate BitLuV'sTSLA
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