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I actually have a reason to bring up this car again lol... I'm on the phone with my uncle and he tells me there's some "interesting" older car on his radar he's thinking about possibly getting as just something else to have... the Oldsmobile Aurora!! in part thanks to the wisdom you all imparted I was able to confidently tell him it's a major pos and to avoid one, since he too found the whole thing oddly appealing and quirky
he called back a few days later and was forced to agree it's not exactly a smart purchase lol... a 1st generation aurora is still very much something I want assuming the jay leno scenario though, i just found it funny how we each separately became interested in this car a few years apart
My Mom bought a Aurora new & loved it. Ironicly in 1997 I went to work for Caroll Shelby on the Series 1 sport car project. It was sponsored by Oldsmobile at John Rocks request to build the image of Oldsmobile.
It used a modified Aurora engine rated at 320 HP. 249 chassis were completed in 1999 & production stopped due to 2000 YM EPA restrictions.
I actually have a reason to bring up this car again lol... I'm on the phone with my uncle and he tells me there's some "interesting" older car on his radar he's thinking about possibly getting as just something else to have... the Oldsmobile Aurora!! in part thanks to the wisdom you all imparted I was able to confidently tell him it's a major pos and to avoid one, since he too found the whole thing oddly appealing and quirky
he called back a few days later and was forced to agree it's not exactly a smart purchase lol... a 1st generation aurora is still very much something I want assuming the jay leno scenario though, i just found it funny how we each separately became interested in this car a few years apart
Honestly. What is fascinating to me is that tonight I saw a Olds Aurora in the parking lot where we went for dinner. It is interesting we see cars that we talk about them on this forum.
Maybe a pos. But it is fun to have dumb stuff sometimes.
Maybe a pos. But it is fun to have dumb stuff sometimes.
that's the motto of the crown vic police interceptor lmao... that thing is like the best pos i could've ever asked for, it's nice to have something cheap that hardly means anything to you that can just be hooned around without fear of any significant financial consequence
the aurora with its FWD couldn't have done the awesome donuts and slides i pulled off with the vic, and since it's rare and "good" i probably wouldn't want to do that stuff anyway with it haha
My Mom bought a Aurora new & loved it. Ironicly in 1997 I went to work for Caroll Shelby on the Series 1 sport car project. It was sponsored by Oldsmobile at John Rocks request to build the image of Oldsmobile.
It used a modified Aurora engine rated at 320 HP. 249 chassis were completed in 1999 & production stopped due to 2000 YM EPA restrictions.
that's a cool little bit of info thanks for sharing, and yes i imagine that when new it was probably pretty nice
I remember the 1st gen Aurora being a big deal in design when it came out. There was never anything like it before. It was futuristic but not over done. I know I loved it for a while. Obviously we see it very different now so it's easy to make fun of.
Too bad GM didn't put as much effort in the engineering side of it as the design side.
that's the motto of the crown vic police interceptor lmao... that thing is like the best pos i could've ever asked for, it's nice to have something cheap that hardly means anything to you that can just be hooned around without fear of any significant financial consequence
the aurora with its FWD couldn't have done the awesome donuts and slides i pulled off with the vic, and since it's rare and "good" i probably wouldn't want to do that stuff anyway with it haha
I remember the 1st gen Aurora being a big deal in design when it came out. There was never anything like it before. It was futuristic but not over done. I know I loved it for a while. Obviously we see it very different now so it's easy to make fun of.
Too bad GM didn't put as much effort in the engineering side of it as the design side.
I remember that. The 1st-generation Aurora, when it came out in 1994, was truly unique, with stand-out styling. The 2nd-generation model, when it came out in 2000, had a somewhat similar front-end but otherwise had gone GM-mainstream and became lost in the crowd.
I remember the 1st gen Aurora being a big deal in design when it came out. There was never anything like it before. It was futuristic but not over done. I know I loved it for a while. Obviously we see it very different now so it's easy to make fun of.
Too bad GM didn't put as much effort in the engineering side of it as the design side.
I think the smaller version Alero still looks good.
I remember that. The 1st-generation Aurora, when it came out in 1994, was truly unique, with stand-out styling. The 2nd-generation model, when it came out in 2000, had a somewhat similar front-end but otherwise had gone GM-mainstream and became lost in the crowd.
The 2Gen model was a little smaller. It also introduced downsized a V6 option, a downsized Northstar, called the "Shortstop".
I never liked either version of the Aurora. It was, by my taste, simply too radical a change from the ubiquitous 88s and 98s that had come to define the brand, though I'll admit the Aurora did a better job on the dash...the 88 and 98 had too many identical push-buttons.
