This 1995 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera Is the LEAST Unique Car GM's Ever Built!
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This was the type of car you saw in a rural country town parked under a carport at an old person's home. Old folks bought these Oldsmobiles and Buicks new and 28-30 years later it only has 35,000 miles on it with a repaint.
Np because tell me why you are exactly right I bought mine for 800 from my pops with only 36k on it 🤣
Been a great car for me. Daddy’s last car, and he bought it from an old church lady, who put a mere 34K on it in 12 years. Dad drove it until 2011, before he retired from driving, handed it over to me at 67K. Now at 147K with it. Only issue was an electrical one. New wiring harness between ignition control
module and engine. Solid performer. Last of their kind. Tires are getting a bit harder to find, at 14inch. It’ll be around as long as possible. Reminds me of my daddy every time I drive it. Still makes 120 mile runs easily. Drove it 650 miles once, one way, trouble free operation and 29-30 mpg at 65-70mph highway running. Yes, mine is a daily driver.
I bought a 92 cierra for 3k with 60k miles on it. came with a tune up and in great condition
@@FrogmanLeapsI see a great deal for one on market, I think I’m gonna grab it based on your comment 👌🏾
I've seen kids drove this with no problem
Love them or hate them at least these suckers were relatively comfortable and reliable.
Mine was definitely NOT reliable.
@@LyleFrancisDelpbad luck.
Super comfy was like riding a couch 🛋️
A full gauge package was aviliabile with tach oil temp and amp..rally pack..
@@LyleFrancisDelpWhat went wrong with yours?
The buick version, the Century, was one of my favorite cars I've ever owned. I loved the styling and the mileage it got.
My 91 Buick Century with the 3300 was indestructible.
@@catsaregovernmentspiesMy parents bought the ‘89 Century- the first year with the softened front and rounded back window and rear end. We thought it was quite sharp looking, actually. It was enough of a change from the ‘86 boxy Ciera that it replaced. The seats had the pillowy backs to them, with very soft velour. No oomph though, with the 4 cyl. Iron Duke. Pretty reliable.
Same had a 94
@@ennsma I thought the A body's were handsome car's
@@robertriley1569 Agreed. They were quite handsome. And in their original version, were almost smaller versions (style-wise) of their bigger siblings (the Olds 98, Cadillac Sedan DeVille, and Buick Park Avenue- which I always thought were stately and elegant).
I had the Pontiac 6000 version and the Buick Century. Say what you want, but the Pontiac got me thru college delivering pizzas and not breaking down much, the Buick had a much cushier suspension and leather interior… floated down the road. Both were simple, solid and cheap transportation!
And can go to Napa, Auto Zone, Advance Auto Parts or O'Reilly and get lucky all day everyday because they had the parts in stock. They even carry reman Jasper transmissions at the parts store for those cars. 7am, purchase the transmission, by 10:30am, that transmission is in and the car running good like nothing happened. Need and alternator or starter, trust me, its in stock. No need to order online and wait on parts when it comes down to old FWD GM cars.
@@SouthsideKidd550 agreed! As a poor college kid I was at autozone a lot instead of going to shops, fixing myself. You cant do that as much on new cars
@@Cherokeelion Thats the way to go. This is why I refuse to buy any newer car than 2015. Most older cars are designed to be worked on by the owner anyways. Parts are ready available on most older modern cars. I own a 2007 Honda Fit. Pull-A-Part and LKQ are awesome as well. So far every part I need for that car (surprisingly) has been in stock. I ordered from Rock Auto one time and that was for some ignition coils because I wanted Honda OEM. But when it comes down to a GM, even if you wanted AC Delco parts, the dealer had it in stock. Speaking of AC Delco, you can still buy GM Delco parts from Auto Zone or Napa, which is a cheaper route because I forgot parts dept at the dealer does 17% markups on parts.
These were GREAT cars. They weren't exciting, but they weren't designed to be exciting. Everything doesn't need to be a goddamn sport sedan. Some of us actually like sofa-like split-bench seats and a column shift. Classic Americana stuff. They were designed to be comfortable, smooth, quiet, solid family sedans that cruised comfortably. They did the job exceptionally well for what they were in the 80s and 90s. Build quality was solid and reliability was quite good. I wish modern GMs were still this dependable. GM did a good job differentiating the Ciera, Century, Celebrity, and 6000. They all have their own exterior design style and unique dashboards. We rented a 1995 Century for a 1,000-mile road trip and it was a fantastic road trip car. I've liked the Century ever since. A friend owned a 1990 Cutlass Ciera with the 2.5L 4cyl. "iron duke" that he neglected pretty badly, but he still managed to squeeze out 200k miles before it croaked.
The Cutlass ciera was basically a front-wheel drive Snow tractor that could cruise down the interstate with four people in affordable luxury. Rich valor interior nice trim for the time and getting decent fuel economy. It was the car in fargo. You could even get a a wagon. My grandfather had one drove it many years in Midwest weather conditions with little or no trouble.
I love my 95 as my daily driver its fairly reliable aside from old parts wearing out occasionally and maintenance but being a 90s GM its easy to fix. I feel like this car is so underrated
Absolutely. I've had mine for 4 months and I never want to get rid of this thing. Super easy to work on as well
Katie if you start having idling probs, check your egr valve. You can test the solenoids with a 9 volt battery and two jumper wires. Just replaced mine.
Buyers apparently didn't care that the different models from the various divisions were just variations on the same theme because they were often that division's best sellers and went on to sell tens of thousands annually for years.
Most people aren't enthusiasts and just want a practical daily driver that's reliable and inexpensive to insure and maintain.
aye 90s GM. My parents bought new cars in the winter of 1994. A brand new 95 Grand-AM SE for mum & a 94 GMC Sierra SLE 4x4 extended cab for my father. Memories of my mother absolutely winding out that 3100 V6 pulling out of our driveway .. the Grand-AM blew its head gasket in 2000 at like 140,000KM and was replaced with the next gen Grand-AM GT and my father drove the sierra through 3 transmissions and it was still used as a secondary work truck/extra car until 2007! After that we switched over to Subaru's for mum and Toyota trucks for dad haha.
My father bought a new Grand Am in 1988 when I was a junior in high school. During the beginning of my senior year I decided to drag race that 105hp iron duke engine and ended up cracking a valve. I told my dad at Sunday breakfast that on the drive home it sounded weird lol. I’ll never forget my dad looking at me and saying ‘well if you say it just sounded weird then I’ll believe you and talk to the dealership (Burns Pontiac Honda GMC) about fixing it’. I felt terrible and ended up telling him what I did. Anyway terrible car every which way you put it 😂
I believe its pronounced gran dam
damn grand@@AnonOmous-hs4gb
The 3100 was a screamer and had the meanest exhaust burble when you stepped on it.
They do like to rev 🙂 torque peak is 4k rpm.
My first car was a 1987 Cutlass Ciera with the 2.5 Iron Duke.
These are so much better than the SUV'S that GM is pushing on people these days. It's what a car should be. Getting people from A to B with no fuss. The early ones were not great but the quality did improve.
These cars defined my small town upbringing in the 90s. They were everywhere. It was these kind of cars or 70s rustbuckets.
Worked at Avis Rent a Car. We had all versions( Chevy Buick Pontiac and Olds) of this and was really the perfect Rental Car. Four doors, good trunk and easy to drive. An appliance.
I drove a 1991 with the 3300 Buick V6 (same family as the famous 3800) and 3 spd auto (160 hp @ 5200 rpm, 185 ft-lb tq @ a low 2000 rpm, lower than this 3100 V6 which I think was at over 4000 rpm). The powertrain was bulletproof. It had 224k miles on it, and the only reason it quit going was someone pulled out in front of my dad when he was driving home from work in 2008. He still drove it home after hitting the guy. Didn't make sense to repair it though to make it road legal again.
Same here. 91 Century with the 3300. 210k miles, all I ever had to replace were normal wear items, brakes, water pump, alternator, exhaust. Never had to so much as pull a valve cover off it.
91 Cutlass Cierra 3.3 V6, 3 speed auto too. $600 car had been under water I found out taking off the door panels to replace the window motors. About 200,000 miles when I bought it, about double when I sold it in far better shape than I bought it still running strong on the original engine. Great car to work on and buy parts for, fun and fast enough for most with an amazing 29 mpg at 75 mph! Comfortable and quiet too, really a great balance of a cheap but quality car. I drove my car a bit hard quite often, rarely failing but keeping the fluids and filters changed early probably didn't hurt. I miss it to this day and dream of getting the station wagon, restoring it, and dropping in a super charged 3800, then putting hundreds of thousands of daily driveing miles on it. Too bad I can't drive anymore.
I still have my white with blue interior Buick century 91 3.3 wit 74k miles I mean wat can I say I can passed any car on the highway wit literally no problems.
These were good cars. They were better built (simpler) than the more modern W bodies that were supposed to replace them, that is why they kept building the Olds and Buick versions until 1996. Ronnie Cox drove a real beauty in Beverley Hills Cop II. Every time I watch that movie I admire it. Some had the optional gauge package which made them pretty sharp. This car is definitely not the least unique GM car though, the 97 Cutlass was an identical clone to the new for 97 Malibu, that was a lot worse. At least this Ciera has different front and rear ends and its own dashboard.
I don't see how this is any more mundane than the average CUV on the road today.
You got a great deal picking that up for 1K.
My family had our share of GM A bodies. My dad had an '84 Pontiac 6000 with the carbed 2.8 V6. It was two tone green with a green cloth interior and wire wheel covers. Quite a car.
My first car was a '94 Buick Century with the 3100 V6. It had the red velour-like interior and was so smooth and comfortable. Took a cross-country road trip in it with my dad when I graduated high school. I miss that car.
Later on, my dad had a '94 or '95 Olds Cutlass (almost identical to the car in this video, except his interior was tan) with the 3100 also.
Simple cars, relatively reliable, cheap to fix. And who doesn't love the sound of an old pushrod 60 degree GM V6?
i have a 94 century 24,000 miles.
I work for a Major Rental Car and Truck Rental. The Cutlass was a reliable rental car customers trashed them and they still kept going. My Parents bought a 95 Buick Century Limited new mom gave it away last year after she quit driving I think it had about 165000 miles on it. My youngest brother she lives with is a mechanic and he said it was going strong right up to the day it left the family.
My Mom had a 87 Celebrity Classic with the 2.8 MPFI. That car ran awesome, I did all the work on it and when it snowed it should’ve had a Polaris insignia on it. That car was haunted with so much good luck it was crazy. Great Videos Thank You 🙏
Wow - I had an 83 Celebrity. I had no idea those non-descript things stayed around into the mid-90s. Truth be told, it was actually a pretty nice, comfortable car. It delivered thousands of pizzas and made the 250 mile trip between home and college (often LOADED down with stuff and/or friends) a ton of times. A blaupunkt head-unit, some pioneer speakers.... it wasn't an awful car. Traded it with a bajillion miles for a sweet 87 Accord Lxi 5mt hatch.
honestly i thought they were great cars
@@BikerJim74 They were. Solid, comfortable cruisers.
I think the Celebrity was discontinued in 1990, along with the Pontiac 6000. The Olds and the Buick soldiered on until 1996.
Me neither! Probably because they never made any styling changes for over a decade. I still remember my first trip to the dealership. When I was 5, in 1983. Walked into the showroom floor and the first thing I saw was a POS Cieara, sitting next to Trans Am. Even as a child, I could tell it was the cheapest, ugliest and least imaginative car i had ever seen. Im surprised that a single one survived the 2008 trade in bail out program.
nice car but celebrity is lineup than cutlass.
I had a 1993 Ciera with the 3300 V6 as my first car. Had no A/C, but I loved that car! Great to see a video on it.
Same, the wagon version! That 3300 was no slouch!
I miss cars like that one where things were simple and straightforward and that actually had interior room. The instrument panel is refreshing - none of that putrid electronic touch garbage we see today. While those specific GM cars were truly cheaply engineered and dead common, the later years had all the bugs worked out and were very dependable products. The Olds and Buick were nice and the Pontiac was a bit sportier. Forget the Chevrolet. It was and never changed -cheap garbage.
I would like to say the cutlass ciera will always have a special place in my heart, I’m 24 now my grandmother had a white cutlass ciera of the show room floor. It was my first ride in a car after being literally being born. I remember bits and pieces but this car has to be on my bucket list for sure!!!!
The Cutlass Ciera was my first car. I used it through my undergrad years. I have very fond memories of it, even if turned into a rust bucket by the end.
I had an almost new 96 Ciera...my first adult car purchase. I loved it, lol. My soon-to-be-ex-wife then--hated it! But it's what 18 year old "us" could afford!
Really not much different than where we are now. Pretty much every manufacturer has a shared parts platform in their lineup somewhere. While some may be a little more cleverly disguised than a blatant badge swap, it's still very much a thing.
I had a 1986 Cutlass Ciera. You described it perfectly - it's a car.
I had the 89 Oldsmobile version with a 4 cylinder. Got me through college. Drive it all over the county. It was easy to work on and parts were cheap. Perfect for a student. I have great memories in that car.
What kind of fuel economy did you get?
GM sold so many A body cars. The celebrity was all over the place.
My İRAQİ government made a deal with I think Canada to import a huge amount of those Oldsmobile cutlass ciera 1990 3.1 engine V6 and Chevrolet celebrity 2.8 liter we loved it back then in the 90' and me personally still love it , I had beautiful memories with it , the only bad thing that almost all people in Iraq knew that the brakes were not that good and this car needed better brakes , comparing to Japanese and German cars that we had , me personally i preferred US cars my parents had in the 80' in Baghdad Chevrolet Malibu 1981 model and I learned driving with it but after that I bought ford explorer 1992 was first and last SUV car to me it was nice but I saw my self in Sedan cars more , thanks for this video to let us go back with time few decades ❤
This was another one of GM's big mistakes. This was the doing of Rodger B Smith. This was one of GM's cost-cutting measures that went wrong. The biggest mistake was converting all of the vehicles transverse engine front wheel drive, but then compounded the mistake with badge engineered cookie cutter cars. It may have saved GM in the short term but cost it in the long term. Because of it Oldsmobile and Pontiac no longer exist. Sticking with the Alfred P Sloan marketing plan would have been better. Oldsmobile and Pontiac were fine automobiles.
I remember wanting a celebrity Eurosport 2 door in high school. With the 2.8 v6. White with Red pin stripes 😅Eventually owned a Pontiac 6000 and it was nothing but trouble.
My mom still has her 94 and runs really well still and Ac and heater work 😂👍🏼😎
Ahh the A-body. My favorite was the Celebrity Eurosport and the cool exhaust note of the V6. I doubt anyone will regard this or any A-body as true “classics” but they do represent a big part of automotive history.
And those ‘90s door-mounted seatbelts…how GM got away with that still amazes me. I guess no one ever considered the real possibility of an ejection in a crash.
The door-mounted seatbelts were actually a government mandate. If the vehicle wan't equipped with airbags, they had to have the belts on the door from 1990 until 1997, when airbags were mandated for all models. In the owners manual, it explains that you're supposed to leave the belt connected as you enter and exit the car. This satisfied the government requirement for passive restraints. Most other automakers used the motorized belts that moved into place when you shut the door, which wasn't much better. This car being a 95, it has an airbag, but these made so much money for GM that they didn't change them back to regular belts when they added airbags in 92 or 93.
The 3100 had the meanest exhaust scream ever when you stepped on it.
It blows my mind that these were made until 1996. Even by 90's standards, these looked arcaeic. They defintely kept them going till the 1996 safety/emissions standards for the old ladies that didn't want those fancy high tech cars.
Had one just like it. My wife learned to drive in it. It was a pretty nice car and very reliable.
These are still going today i still see them here and there. Good cars and cheap to fix. Id buy one in a heartbeat.
They was good cars though my grandma had 3 of them that I can remember. She loved Oldsmobile. The first one I remember was totaled out. The second one she ended up driving until it was ready for the salvage yard and the last one was totaled from a flood down the street. She couldn't find another Oldsmobile like this so she bought a Buick.
I currently daily drive a 1989 oldsmobile eighty eight and serves me well. The 3800 in it is reliable and does 400miles a week no problem. I prefer the boxy looks of the 80's compared to later. Its much roomier than the later models.
By the mid 90s, the Ciera and Century were the last of the A bodies produced. And at that point they were a rental fleet special and were fairly decontented. While badge engineered...there was enough feature differentiation for each division. In 83, you had the Pontiac 6000 STE which was decent sport sedan considering its plebian origins.
If you buy your burnt umber Ciera from Gustafson Motors in MN, remember to get that Trucoat!
In 2011 I bought my first car which was a 1988 cutlass ciera. I bought it of my friend’s grandmother with 33,000 miles for $1,500. It took my me and my friends everywhere and made the best of memories. I wish I still had 😢
Kind of funny my parents had two versions of these LOL
My dad had a 1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera SL two-door it was a burgundy metallic very loaded had a luggage rack on the trunk a beige leather interior full gauge package with a tachometer four-speed automatic on the floor with a 3.8 V6. It had this gold pinstriping with gold trim alloy wheels and all the emblems were gold. It was fun to drive and had lots of power. A friend of mine his dad drove a 91 Ford T-Bird Super Coupe at the time. We would race them from one intersection to another.
The T-bird with a v6 supercharged was always faster but the Ciera always kept up which says a lot. By the time we would get to the next red light the front wheel of the Ciera would be in the middle of his driver's door so the car always kept up.
My father sold it to a friend on the job and purchase a 1994 Buick Century sedan with a 3.1 V6 4-speed automatic that we drove until he sold it to a different friend on the job LOL in 2003 when he brought a Chevy Tracker V6 4X4.
Both of those vehicles we're super reliable and both went over 100,000 miles.
These were definitely a rebadge but had differences. To me a closer rebadge that were very similar would have been the Dodge Aries k and the Plymouth Reliant or the Dodge Aspen in Plymouth Volare especially the station wagons.
I bought mine for $1900 with 92,000 on it. I absolutely love this car. Never had a problem with it except for basic maintenance.
Mom and Dad had both the 1992 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera and a 1996 Buick Century version s of this car. The 1992 was the 4-cylinder version and for some reason the engine was a lemon. It used oil and even for what it was it was slow. The 1996 with the 3.1 liter V6 was an improvement. My sister had a 1987 Cutlass Ciera 4-cylinder and that one the engine was good and while not fast was better than the 1992.
These Oldsmobile's & their corporate siblings were damn good cars.
They were comfortable & reliable & did what they were supposed to do.
As long as you kept the oil changed & the tires rotated, they'd run forever.
YES they're NOT perfect but I'd rather have 1 of these thana any of today's daily drivers & I say that as someone
who's NOT a fan of GM vehicles.
How did you find this one for $1,000!?!? I bought a project one for $500 with 344000 highway miles 😢. I bought it as I had one as my first car.
I actually own a 1992 ciera. It was one of the best cars I have owned. It is my second car after the plymouth reliant I had blew up. It may not be the most stylish, but it gets me anywhere I want reliably
People buy brand new cars they can't afford with $1,000 per month payments. They are so much better off with one of these. They could probably drive it for four or five years. I had the station wagon version of one of these back in the day.
Was my first car.Lovef it .Velvet seats,power everything,ice cold AC.Good on gas.Rode like a little Cadillac. Cars now are junk.
We had one growing up as the kids car. I’m the youngest so by the time I got it it was trashed. Every piece of plastic in ours crystallized and shattered like glass. Whole door panels came apart and you had to beep the horn and unlock the doors by touching wires together 😆
I wish they stilll made ars like that. The "boxy" design gives excellent driver visibility all around. No cameras needed. The controls on the dash are all tactile. You can adjust them by feel without taking your eyes off the road. Why do we need everything controlled by a friggen 19 inch TV on the dashboard. Driver has to take their eyes of the road just to turn down the volume on the radio. They are a safety hazard. I'll keep buying these old style of cars until the last one on earth kicks the can.
My family had a 1984 Buick Century station wagon back in the day. It had the jankiest digital dash, with a button to switch between mph/kph for the display. I'd switch the display to kph to freak out my friends and make them think we were doing 100 mph on the highway.
Cars like these remind me that most cars during most time periods sold are mainly dull transportation appliances. It's not a recent phenomenon with the move to crossovers when most people started wanting boring, functional cars. Even though sedans were the popular car at the time, most sold were not any more exciting than the Toyota Rav4s and Nissan Rogues of today. If anything, these newer crossovers (and the still decent-selling affordable sedans left) are generally superior to the beige sedans of yesteryear.
My first car was a '94 Cutlass Ciera. It was slow, had a terrible turning radius, had some issues. Sometimes I had to smack the dash to get the speedometer to work again, but for the most part it was a good car.
These cars were smooth rides. Think they had a 3800 motor and hauled ass too
Mine has the 3800. And yes absolutely a smooth ride. Love this car
In the Bay Area, this was known as a “scraper” Can’t believe my generation used to put big rims and sound systems in these things. Very comfy from what I remember.
I worked for Sunset Oldsmobile in Sacramento Ca when this came out with other models. The 4 cylinder was crap but the V6 was a good reliable car.
The Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera. The official car of grandpa has to go meet the boys for a coffee down at the mall. The Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera. The official car of I need a winter beater because my Corvette is in the garage all winter long.
My buddy used a Oldsmobile Ciera as a news paper car and it was so dependable. He had over 400 stops a day. Like clock work I would do brakes every 4 weeks. He kept running the car a couple years after he stopped delivering news papers.
I’m from Lansing, the home of Olds…
Given the last one rolled off the line 28 years ago, and our salted winter roads…
They are ALL gone
I loved mine though! it was comfy and efficient and I got it for a deal! 30k miles for $3k. I regret selling it and would buy another nice one in a heart beat
There were plenty of people in the 1980s who were put off by the swoopy wet-soap look of the Ford Taurus (and later Chevy's Lumina and Pontiac's Grand Prix) - many older buyers, especially for the brands positioned above Chevrolet like Buick and Olds, had a preference for more traditional styling. It's not a surprise that the Buick Century and Old Cutlass Ciera were the two surviving models of A-car past the late 1980s, even gaining slight styling changes like a more formal roofline before the decade's end.
By 1995, these were runout models, the investment GM made in the cars long since paid off. They offered basic, honest transportation - and were the cheapest cars offered by their respective brands. As unexciting as they were, and they were miles behind more modern cars in terms of styling and driving dynamics, there was still a small number of people who just wanted an affordable, high value car. The options list was kept short and all of the engine choices were pared down to the basic low-tech (but proven) 3.1L V6. As with the car shown, the last A-cars were not particularly luxurious, not exciting to drive, had lots of cheap plastic in the cabin and were basically an anachronism by the mid-1990s. That Delco radio looks like one that my mom had in her 1987 Chevy Nova (that car didnt have a cassette player, how rude!) Yet the Cutlass Ciera and Buick Century also had comfy seats, a very quiet comfortable ride, and appealed to those who preferred the straighter, squared off styling and less fancy mechanicals compared to newer vehicles made by GM and other companies. While I never would have given this car a second look in the 1990s, I'd love a good well looked after example now...for as common as they used to be, you rarely see any on the road now and even fewer in good condition. Ah, nostalgia is a funny beast.
A bodies and H bodies were underrated dependable comfortable vehicles. Time has taken many but I daily an 89 Delta so they are out there...
This is so true. I have an 02 Century and it feels the same way. It’s just basic transportation, nothing more, nothing less.
I have a 96 Ciera that was in perfect shape untill I ran it into a guard rail 3 years ago bent part of the frame but hey still works perfect
I had an 89 and 91 in high school. Loved it. Power steering was so good you could drive with your pinky. Also was a beast in snow!
These cars will run like crap longer than most cars will run well. They just keep running with the bare minimum of maintenance.
I think its a fine looking car. Probably not "classic" worthy by car by collectors or enthusiasts, but there's a fanbase for older mundane cars. I'd like to find a wagon version, which is probably the least mundane version of this car.
The 90's one's were actually fairly rounded compared to an early 80's one
Well there is something for a car that does its job and doesn't break the bank, cars have gotten way too expensive.
I had one of those and a Honda accord sei at the same time the olds was quicker rode smoother and got better mpg yes the Honda had better handling but for road trips it was always the olds that we used
I got one last year, a 1994 3.1 with 78k miles for $1500. It's had some issues but hasn't ever let me down. It's become one of my favorite things to drive.
Since many are still on the road after not being in production for 27 years, they can’t be too bad.
It’s a car.
More verbose words could not have described it any more accurately.
The car in the video is a later model with rounded corners. The early versions were even boxier.
My family got the Buick diesel brand new, probably 84ish. My sister drove it in high school in the early 90s. That was a pretty much maintenance-free engine, unlike the 6.2 Diesel we had in our suburban that always dropped glow plugs and fuel pumps. That Suburban did pull our RV trailer to Rocky Mt. National Park, though with no problems.
A friend in high school had a 2 door model, thought it was called a "International" version🤔 but it seems like every teacher or granny owned the 4 door😅
Considering the car is almost 30 years old and still runs well, enough said.
Ah yes The 1980's GM "Cookie Cutter" Go Karts..😮
There is at least one of these in every church parking lot in America.
I watched this video from the driver seat of my 1996 Ciera wagon. 139,360 miles as of today and it’s been great.
watching this video from my 89 Ciera wagon lol, just hit 120,000 miles today! Amazing car
I owned 2 of them. The first one was an 88 with the Tech 4 with 200,000 miles which I scored for 400 bucks in 2000. At 480,000 the front strut towers rusted out and that was in 2003. Replaced it with a 92 with the 3.1 with 60,000 miles and paid 2500. My ex blew the motor in 07 and was getting close to 180,000 miles on it. For the most part they are good cars for families and won't kill the wallet when they need parts. BTW both cars were used pretty hard especially the first one as it was my daily, while the 92 was my ex's daily, since I scored an 87 Grand Wagoneer for mine, which I scored for 800 bucks 😎
I had 96 Cutlass siera. Kept it until about 2010. Only had to rebuild the trans outside of regular maintenance. Solid AF car. Was my 1st modified car too. Updated the engine to a 3400 manifold, bigger injectors, rear mounted turbo, swapped in parts from the unmentioned turbo version that Pontiac produced including the vinyl bucket seats. Don't sleep on these cars
These are great cars! I summer daily drive the exact same car, but white/maroon interior and only has 48K miles. Been in the family since new, and was stored 18 years. Absolutely love it, and get many compliments driving it. Everything works 100% and practically showroom condition. Let's see any new "American" car as reliable and cheap to own as one of these. Still has 1 original tire on the rear, and fronts from Aug 2001 (No im not scared, and yes I do 75 in it)
Re: 20 year old tires, thats pretty stupid. Whats worse, spending 500$ on tires or a blowout? You do realize you can't always see the rot, right? Sheesh.
When my mother was 56 she bought a new white/blue V6 in '89 after my stepdad died, it was a good car & she drove it for many years! I had the '88 Olds 98 Regency at the time! A few more stops at McDonalds & you could still sit comfortably ✌💖☮
A lot of rural postal workers drove these where I am from. I guess the bench seat was easy for them to drive from the passenger side. My grandmother had a 91 olds cutlass Ciera with the 3.3. Good car.
I had a 96 that was 100% reliable with the V6.
My aunt and uncle still has 2 of these as their only vehicles.
A full gauge package was available for these and was pretty popular (probably cost $35! “Good enough” seemed to be the design criteria for these.
It’s a honest vehicle made in a time that you need something nice to be your companion for every day work while you still building your dreams. Thanks GM for impulse dreams and cara like this.
3.1 didn't come close to the 3800 series.
They just exist. Words of wisdom
My buddy had one of those back in the day. I hit a deer doing 70 in it somewhere in Ohio in the middle of the night. The car took it like a champ only knocked out one headlight and smashed the grill up a little. Your red beard is majestic!!
My dad drove this exact color and year. It was a fleet car for the State of Montana, they bought a ton of these around 1995.
Now you need to find a Cutlass Calais and/or one of its badge siblings! I owned both platforms. The little ones were pretty nimble and fun(ish) and you could get a MT, at least in the Somerset.
My uncle had 2 of these, lots of great memories!! The first was a 1992 in blue, which was totalled in an accident, then he had an identical 1995 as the one you have in the video. In Canada these cars didn’t last long about 8-10 year before the frame would rot.
It is like a equinox of yesteryear
I want one now. I’d drive it.
Does this Olds have Truecoat?
The talent on these shows is honestly some of the most talented in the field.
You guys, somehow make some of the most mundane vehicles appear appealing to me.
I don't know if it's the honesty or just the expressions used to describe cars such as this one that do it or what ever the reason might be but every boring or ugly vehicle brought up on this channel like the way it was done here makes me want one.
This makes me question my sanity just a slight bit by being able to admit this.....
I'm at 175k on my 94 model. Replaced the intake gaskets at 173k. Put new ignition module in, then replaced egr after idling issues. Hope to get 300k out of her. 🙂
Had one...yep, it's a car...