The Chevrolet Eurosport VR
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- This was a very rare, somewhat after-market body effects package you could order through Chevrolet dealers for your stock Celebrity Eurosport. It didn't upgrade the engine, suspension, or brakes (didn't even have discs in the rear), but it did make your Celebrity stand apart from the rest. Apparently, special jackets, sunglasses, and gym bags could be ordered as well to compliment your Chevrolet. I remember seeing one of these at a gas station when I was about 16, and another one that whooshed past me on I-271 in Beachwood, Ohio. I literally haven't seen one since 1988.
Classic! Anyone would be lucky to drive one of these to the Ponderosa for a fine steak.
😂😂
The VR has the nicest body kit I have ever seen on any car. Very nice!
I almost dookied my pants!!!!
those eurosport Chevrolet celebrity cars are more rare than the regular celebrity cars
I just bought an 87’ ES Wagon less than 130,000
Untouched n running
Duhh
Well....yeah
I just love the little rear squat when they introduce the bodies. All 125 horse go.
BMW never stood a chance. So much fast.
LOL
😂😂😂
When Chevy tried to out-Pontiac Pontiac.
Well, that was close.. 😄 ruclips.net/user/shortsXHSXw6cvV08?feature=share
They should of added a digital odometer/dashboard with this package as well as rear disc brakes.
There used to be a white 1988 VR here in New Albany, IN but I have not seen it for a few years now. It was driven by an old man so he may have passed away and the car was sold at auction. It was a beautiful machine. I loved the effects. I had a regular 89 Eurosport that was a nice car as well. Thanks for sharing with us here.
Man, I have an A-Body 1990 Buick Century that I bought off my High School Auto program a year ago. I used it to get me around while working on my Fiero, but although it may be weird, I love that car. (only 87k on the odo when I got it. R12 A/C is ice cold) The Celebrity Eurosport VR is a really cool looking car for what it is. When I look at my Buick, this is exactly what I imagined ground effects would look like on it. If I ever come across one of these someday, I'm going to buy it.
I love it when car commercials show em on the race track.
Aww, i want one.
Damn Rarity.
Nice looking cars!
Got to love classic '80s commercial cinematic theme music. I thought for a second general hospital soap was about to come on. 😂
Literally was just behind a white Eurosport wagon. Shit was fucking mint
General Motors quality standards he says.
They arent bad? They were really cheap nee
I've never heard of the VR. I like it in red. I think the sedan looks the best though. It's supposed to be a sporty car, but they don't even mention the powertrain. All they talk about are the cosmetics. I'm assuming it was nothing more than a V6 Celebrity with some cosmetic embelishments. Still, I like it. The 2.8L V6 was a great motor. Insanely responsive and torquey. I drove an '87 Eurosport wagon with the V6 with 237k miles and it was still incredibly strong. Go back to making good cars GM!
That red coupe looks SWEET! Theres a gray 4 dr sitting in the weeds about a half hour from me!
So basically there were no mechanical improvements at all. Just a body kit? No wonder they didn't sell many of them.
it was the impression of being in a sporty car
Very disappointing. They could have at least offered AWD as Pontiac did for their 6000 STE and S/E models.
The Celebrity was a nice car for its time shame that GM never kept it in production for more than 1 generation. They sold well and were everywhere throughout the 80s and even used ones were still around throughout the 90s as well. My Dad had a 1986 grey metallic sedan with matching grey cloth interior was the base car with the 2.8 V6 and the Chevy metal hubcaps was a nice car. He bought it used in 1990 and had it until 1997. Was the older style with the sealed beam headlights unfortunately even being garage kept always the rust belt ohio weather eventually got to it.
My mom had a euro VR, I didn't know it was rare. Come to think of it, I don't remember seeing any since. It rusted out and everything broke, but continued to run nontheless.
I actually owned one of these (white 4-door model). I liked it, but it was not as nice as my first celebrity eurosport, a grey 1986 2-door model. These cars could take a lot of punishment, the v-6 virtually bullet-proof, the car could keep on running even after cosmetic things started failing on it.
I miss my old 1986 celebrity eurosport. :(
The wagon is weird, like the Brady Bunch meets Miami Vice. Lol
Or the Wagon Queen Family Truckster without the wood paneling.
I did not have a VR but I did have a Euro and I put 350,000 miles on it before I sold it for $500, I paid $1,500 10 years earlier. Great driving car and very fast especially the first few years. I drove this car like the Dukes of Hazard, and once jumped it off a ramp like embankment in the woods lol, that broke the A frame btw. Scared the crap out of the guys who were with me that day. Why was I driving through the woods? Damn shrooms I have no idea. Man was I wild back in the day
This is a car I see being a rare classic in the future once I find one I'm buying it. Could possibly be worth a lot in maybe another 30years
i remember there were lots of celebtirys in the 80s n90s on the road, if u needed a good cheap used car in the 90s a 80s model celebrity was usually a good bet
What you have to remember, is that many cars were underpowered in the 80s. 115 hp was enough to excite. Even some American muscle cars were down on power compared to the cars that came before them in the 70s. If you didn't have a Firebird Formula, you just had a firebird, if you didn't have a z28 IROC, you had a slightly less exciting RS, or a V6 mustang instead of the big boys
Had an 'Oh, yeah!' moment seeing this because i was a GM employee back then though I was smitten with their new pickup trucks and my wife had just bought an '88 Pontiac Bonneville SE.
I really liked the Celebrity. On a business trip I'd rented a Celebrity sedan with the 4 cylinder and was pleased that it fit the bill for what I needed from a car that week. I remember being amazed at how _large_ the trunk was in that Celebrity sedan.
You haters really make me shake my head. IN THE DAY, this was a pretty cool car. Back in the mid 80's there really wasn't any really high performance cars affordable to regular people. This little gem might have done that.
Name me a mid 80's car that: 1. Had actual performance; 2. Looked like it was built for performance; 3. Seated 5; 4. And sold for under $15K.
All you could get was 3 of the 4 points back then. this one hit those 3 points solidly.
Relax haters. Keep it in context.
Nissan Maxima
I love how the narrator hypes up the high tech engineering, advanced everything, euro driving experience, ect... Give me a break, it's a POS Celebrity. They were about as high tech as a $99.00 Sears push lawn mower. They should of called it the EuroCheeseBox. Are any still on the road??? Not many. Here in Miami, I haven't seen a Celebrity on the road in years.
yep, these caused me a lot of confusion as a little boy, trying to learn all the cars. I thought it was called a celebrity then saw eurosport on a lot of them, looked pretty decent though. Now one has to wonder why they also had the lumina car at the same time which was nearly the same size. That and the monte carlo z34 or whatever it was. GM and their redundancies . Not to mention the lumina van
A sports car with wagon tires . a sports car has racing GT white letter wide tires. Is like a celebrity with cheap shoes. You won't see that in Hollywood.
This was a very rare, somewhat after-market body effects package you could order through
Chevrolet dealers for your stock Celebrity Eurosport. It didn't upgrade the engine, suspension, or
brakes (didn't even have discs in the rear), but it did make your Celebrity stand apart from the rest.
Apparently, special jackets, sunglasses, and gym bags could be ordered as well to compliment your
Chevrolet. I remember seeing one of these at a gas station when I was about 16, and another one
that whooshed past me on I-271 in Beachwood, Ohio. I literally haven't seen one since 1988.
I drove on back in 1998 and could have got it for 1000.00 back in 1992. I could has brought a mint one for 1200 back 1998. I didn't know if these would be collectible.
yes it does! The engine code is LB6
Coolest Car Ever
Oh please! I would've sooner drove an old Citation X-11!
They showed all body styles, but I think it was only offered on the 4 dr.
Unfortunately for the Celebrity Eurosport VRs, they weren't allowed to show up Chevys poster child the Corvette.
the only bad thing i can say about any celebrity is where they placed the fuel lines. The were too exposed to the elements so if u droved in places that had snow, the fuel lines would rust before anything else. But other than that ive had like 3 of them and all of them drove awesome and have been great cars for cheap. Dont know why they stopped making them.
I had a couple Celebrities for demos in the early to mid 80's. They drove pretty well, but we never drove them past 6,000 miles. New cars should drive good. Even a Fiat drives ok when it's new. They have been trying to get into the US market for 50 years but never have been able to compete.
Now ,if Chevrolet would have only put the 3.1 turbo in this instead of stalling the introduction of it and only using it for 1 year in the Pontiac Gran Prix GT as an option i. 1989
love 80's synthesizers and saxophone to make this video
I wish I could find the all the music they used for this video
Saw a 1988 VR Celebrity (white) for sale in a Hemmings Magazine. It had under 20,000 mile on it.
I have a rare 84 Celebrity custom conv made Hess and Eisenhardt 2.8 v6 gets 30 mpg freeway roomy inside smooth ride excellent cornering these cars were made fun of but I love mine I switched it from carb to multiport injection from a parts car it runs like new and with some customizing is quite pretty and gets lots of compliments the build quality is also good compared to today's plastic bubbles
That's pretty cool. I've got an 86 Celebrity conv made by Hess and Eisenhardt as well. It's still got the carb in it though...
@@F-ZERO awesome they are great cars
What year are the Celebrity's that are occurring in this commercial? I Wait your answer!!! Grettings from Puebla Mexico I love the A Body Cars of GM
Miguel Gil it is the 1988 models. The '87 was a concept car and way more rare. they made 600 of the 2-door, 1250 of the wagon, and 3500 Sedans in 88
I think 1988 or 1989
they only made like 3000 of these cars. Very rare.
I want a VR so bad!!
the Euro Sport VR celebrity was the rare one. They made a lot of the regular celebritys and those are the ones i had. Very good cars but again horrible placement on where the fuel lines were placed.
Damn, that red sport coupe is really sharp lookin.
yeah if the plastic does not cruble and the car decomposes
We crushed a ton of these over the years. Said but that is
progress for you LOL !
Never seen the VR edition
It's too bad Chevy didn't do anything to enhance the Eurosport VR in more of a handling, and performance aspect. I also say, hell, just because they didn't doesn't mean privateers can't. If I could find one that was in decent enough shape to do up, I yank the 3.1 or 2.8, in favor of a blown Vette v8 with upgraded electrics, and hot cams. Add some vette elements to the suspension, coil overs, dampers, bushes, and of course open the exhaust, and then you'd have an even badder ass machine....
The Chevrolet Eurosport VR.
I have a lumina z34 and id trade it for the 2 door celebrity coupe anyday......
I find it amusing people call a car this age ugly. It was great for its time. Times have changed. Get a clue..id take it anyday especially over a pos toyota
Ahhh....You want me to kiss it to feel better???
Wagon is hot
I WANT THAT WAGON IN BLUE!!!!
they were a way to sell a bread and butter car with a body kit it's still a celebrity aka citation.
I think this started the trend of manufacturers slapping on some plastic trim and a few decals and rebranding a bland car as a "sport" model, without any changes to suspension, brakes, engines or anything. I wonder how schooled the first tool to buy one of these "sport" models was when he went up against a real sports car.
I shake my head at this crap we used to build.
@redfonzie21 Dude they didn't even make the video originally...this is a video for dealers to order it thus it was made loooong before the website.
sweet fancy moses
:40 yeah she's practically an Indy race car bud, ya know I shouldn't tell ya this but Aryton Senna was just in here last week test driving one, he bought it on the spot cash. He was saying his F1 car was getting kinda boring and slow. So whaddya say bud, wanna take er home? only $39,999!
😱 This is my car. The car that's rolling out of this eight ten wheeler is mine. This is my car. And mine is in perfect condition. I am ABSOLUTELY still in Love with mind.......There are only two on the road right NOW. One is mine and the another one is a elderly older man have one that's has been trying to sale it. It's a red sedan. This guy has been trying to cell this car for ever...l am "ABSOLUTELY ABSOLUTELY " IN LOVE WITH MIND 🥰🥰🥰.... The only problem is, these cars is hard to "repair".
Say if you have a accident. You will not be able to find parts. You may be able in go fo the junk yard and hope to find parts that you are looking for. My car is forty years old. Thank God my husband is a mechanic and if it has a motor he can fix it. My baby is (IMPECCABLE" . I am in Love with mine, and like me you will Love your....
tight as hell never seen 1
wow.. i have never seen one of these
Should have used the Aero Astro semi instead of an KW. . Lol
machine then you started out with. Also shove some high performance slotted brake rotors with better pads, better lighter wheels some performance rubber, and voila, a Eurosport VR that may be able to hand a more exotic car like a Merc, Beamer, or Porsche their ass.
oh yeah.. the 115 horse mr2 was king of the road in 88........ I 'll give credit where it is due.. there was a SC mr2 but it was still under 150hp
1988 SC MR2 $17,000 msrp
1988 firebird formula $11,999 msrp
I do not make the difference between the coupé, the 4 doors and the station wagon ... a Dodge Aries is sexier ...
Um, does the name MR2 ring a bell?
@3800Z Davidsfarm Had A 3.1L Wagon It Was Fast Not A VR.
really? the regular celeberty or the vr? there a good riding car i enever owend one buut my freind has one ther nice lil cars
yes, this very rare car in the market, this car have 2.8
of cition x-11?
was this a dealer option?
what was it with the 80's and shitty paint colors?
Buick Century.
LOL at the haters who weren't even born yet in '88
shitty american car? PFFTT hahaha
Take a look at the honda nissan and toyota lineup from 88. the only thing relatively cool or desirable from them was the prelude..
Chevy was giving you body kits and suspension upgrades before you even knew you wanted them.
with a whopping 2.8l v6 with what , 120 net hp ? these made some of the nicest landfills
wow those are nice. shows what you can do with an otherwise bland car, that is if you know what your doing. what these kids do with the hondas and the body kits only make something bad worse
120 hp 2.8 v6 lol
I remember those things back in the day. Style, LOL!!! Those things are FUGLY
WTF??
Not sure if any of you guys ever owned a Eurosport but they were the 3.1 V6. Those were terrible engines. I had the 3.1 Eurosport Lumina and 3.1 Eurosport Celebrity. Garbage engines. GM's 3800 was the best V6 GM ever made.
The Eurosport was mostly the 2.8 as the 3.1 didn't come out until '89.
We take an ugly car.... and make it uglier!
Those cars were some of the slowest pieces of shit ever. They were just complete garbage.
wow .... what a pile ....
Cheaply, made, poorly built crap..100k its time to bury ol' nelly.. give me a volvo or honda, Toyota, something that will get 250k with no problem
t payton Not always either. This is a common myth and pure ignorance. Any car can last over 300k miles if properly taken care of. I've seen Volvo's, Honda's, Yota's hit 100k and fall apart due to poor ownership. I've had a Celebrity with 350k miles that was always taken care of and well documented when repaired or had oil changes/tune ups. It's all in how you take care of it.
Jack Creason thats true to an extent.. but a lot of cars especially AMERICAN cars were purposely designed to break down early so that you can either pay the dealer shop to fix it ( very expensive) .. or you have to buy another car from them (money and greed was there motive)..a very clever scheme that most dont see..this was the case in the 80's american cars..pontiacs, fords, mercury and others were straight garbage..theres a reason why honda was the best selling car in america..truth be told there cars was getting double, or triple the mileage than American cars..america woke up after the auto industry in Detroit collapsed due to very low sale..foreign sales exploded, while the motor city suffered.. so bad that obama had to bail gmc and others out in order to keep them afloat..i think they learned there lesson. The American people will not settle for purposely built garbage. American cars are much more reliable now, and last longer than the garbage that used to roll of the assembly lines..
Again it all falls on how you take car of it. Even a cheaply made car can be taken care of and used way longer than it's intended life span. I got a friend who has a Yugo with 400k miles on it. Only owner. Does oil changes every 3500 miles and tune ups every year. Yugo's were made with the cheapest parts possible granted not american. I've got another friend who still drives his dads Citation. I agree that cars are built to fail like new TV's are but unlike TV's you can easily fix cars and their issues.
Jack Creason yes you can easily fix cars and there issues..but who wants to go through that? Especially when it could be avoided or minimized by purchasing a more reliable vehicle. U can fix a car with a blown motor also, but again who wants to go through that? I would rather drive a honda accord that will get 300 k with normal or very little repair issues.. chrysler 300 4 and 6 cyl. Has a very bad rep for premature break downs..especially the 4 cyl. Motor trend described the car as a very unreliable box on wheels.. i love these cars because of the body design, shape, etc..but once again there engines are very weak and cheap..in this case this is not about proper maintenance keep up .this is about very poorly built cars, maybe this is the reason Chrysler went under..because buyers started getting tired of the American garbage rolling off the assembly line..dont get me wrong, im not saying that America doesn't have the technology to build super tuff, long lasting cars, because they do, they've done it in the past..what i am saying is that they prefer not to..why sell one car every 15 years when we can increase the turn over rate by selling one every 4-7 years..wich boils down to more money..i would rather sell one good car every 10-15 years and have dedicated customers and a good name, than to sell lots of cheap cars every 5 years with unreliable, uncommitted customers any day. .thats why Chrysler went under..greed my friend..
Not really. Just because they're Honda's or Toyota's doesn't mean they'll automatically make it to those miles. You ask any owner that has had one get to 250k or higher and I'll bet money they took care of it. I'll bet money they took care of it. Even a little bit of TLC is enough. IF you want I had a Honda that barely went over 125k before it died due to lack of care. Or a Yota that died as well before 175k. Both weren't well taken care of before me and sorta with me.
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NO NO thank,,,
i dont like this car
haha what a joke