Oldsmobile Aurora??
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oh yeaaa look at that you joined the site just a few months after this thread last had any activity haha
any particular horror stories or general light you can otherwise shed on what makes them so bad to work on? looks like it was good i never pulled the trigger on one!
any particular horror stories or general light you can otherwise shed on what makes them so bad to work on? looks like it was good i never pulled the trigger on one!
And these days they are just horrible to work on, those and the same gen Taurus are two of my most hated cars to work on. Very prone to fighting and were not well designed in any respect
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I lived through those days, followed them quite closely, and remember them well.
Some automotive publications/reviewers also preferred the 2Gen. Of the ones I've seen, a few said it was a much better product, but more of them seemed to say marginally better.
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It's typical GM issues compounded with horrible access to things due to fail wheel drive and a V8, an underpowered one at that! Same era Chryslers with the 3.5 were faster and the engines point the correct way, there are so many better cars for the time.....
And these days they are just horrible to work on, those and the same gen Taurus are two of my most hated cars to work on. Very prone to fighting and were not well designed in any respect
And these days they are just horrible to work on, those and the same gen Taurus are two of my most hated cars to work on. Very prone to fighting and were not well designed in any respect
i think it's another example of GM half-assing something, even nissan used a proper RWD chassis when they launched infiniti... no matter what GM did the aurora was doomed from the start with that platform architecture
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The Aurora didn't. Olds doesn't exist. Buick still exists as a non-competitive fledgling tier 3 luxury brand.
Two odd looking cars from the late 90's/00's didn't help either brand.
I guess people loved the Bangle designed 5 and 7 series? They were everywhere. I hated them. Ugly as hell then and now.
Two odd looking cars from the late 90's/00's didn't help either brand.
I guess people loved the Bangle designed 5 and 7 series? They were everywhere. I hated them. Ugly as hell then and now.
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I actually liked the first gen Aurora but not the 2nd.
Around that time, my parents traded in their ‘89 Camry and bought a new ‘94 Cutlass Supreme. Tons of features, reasonably strong V6, and comfortable. By the time it had 30k miles on it my mom was done. Having it towed out of the driveway when it died was the last straw, so they traded it in (‘95 Camry) and never went back to GM.
Around that time, my parents traded in their ‘89 Camry and bought a new ‘94 Cutlass Supreme. Tons of features, reasonably strong V6, and comfortable. By the time it had 30k miles on it my mom was done. Having it towed out of the driveway when it died was the last straw, so they traded it in (‘95 Camry) and never went back to GM.
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Second, weird-looking and controversial rear ends were nothing new to the Riviera. Remember this?..............
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They were both crappy, weird looking GM products from the late 90's/00's.
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I guess people loved the Bangle designed 5 and 7 series? They were everywhere. I hated them. Ugly as hell then and now.
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The Aurora didn't. Olds doesn't exist. Buick still exists as a non-competitive fledgling tier 3 luxury brand.
Two odd looking cars from the late 90's/00's didn't help either brand.
I guess people loved the Bangle designed 5 and 7 series? They were everywhere. I hated them. Ugly as hell then and now.
Two odd looking cars from the late 90's/00's didn't help either brand.
I guess people loved the Bangle designed 5 and 7 series? They were everywhere. I hated them. Ugly as hell then and now.
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I guess people loved the Bangle designed 5 and 7 series? They were everywhere. I hated them. Ugly as hell then and now.
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Thats not what he said. The previous product he talked about were Oldsmobiles before the Aurora. The Aurora was not a poor product, it was a very well regarded product that sold pretty well and got Oldsmobile a lot of attention.
NO auto reviewer or journalist preferred the second gen Aurora. You like it because it’s more mainstream and you like mainstream stuff and don’t like change.
Lots of people who bought Lincoln’s and foreign luxury cars in the 90s looked at Auroras. When I was a kid at our country club there were probably a dozen Auroras, and you would never have seen another Oldsmobile there. My dad considered an Aurora beside the Continental, Seville STS and Lexus LS400 in 1995 and that would never have happened with any other Oldsmobile. A couple of the salespeople executives at his company also had Auroras who would never have considered an Oldsmobile.
NO auto reviewer or journalist preferred the second gen Aurora. You like it because it’s more mainstream and you like mainstream stuff and don’t like change.
Lots of people who bought Lincoln’s and foreign luxury cars in the 90s looked at Auroras. When I was a kid at our country club there were probably a dozen Auroras, and you would never have seen another Oldsmobile there. My dad considered an Aurora beside the Continental, Seville STS and Lexus LS400 in 1995 and that would never have happened with any other Oldsmobile. A couple of the salespeople executives at his company also had Auroras who would never have considered an Oldsmobile.