This is a Medium Quasar Blue car. Only 237 examples made in this color with Graphite interior and Black top. For all those saying the roll bar is structural...this is NOT true. These convertibles started out life as coupes at the GM plant in Doraville, GA and then were converted into convertibles by another outside company. The coupe bodies had their roof structure removed and structural bracing throughout the body was added. Reinforcements in the rocker areas, strut tower brace added, rear section behind the rear seats was reinforced, etc. The roll bar was kept ONLY for the mount location of the exterior door handles...that is all. These convertibles after their bodies were modified were then finished off on the trim lines and sent out the door. Again, ALL 90-95 convertibles started out life as full coupe bodies at GM. Production ended for the convertibles in 1995. Due to GM relocating the Cutlass Supreme line to the Kansas City plant, it wouldn't have made sense financially to continue making the convertibles since logistically, it would have been very expensive shipping the coupe bodies to the conversion facility. This is why no more convertibles were made after 1995.
I have to disagree on the whole time-to-go narrative in this video. It deserved to go no more than something like Buick or Saturn did - especially at the point where Olds was at the time. In fact, I think they could have had a better future than Buick did, as they simply had more oomph in terms of what they were - while the name was, uh, 'Olds', the tech was new. Aurora was theirs. The Northstar was started by them. They made the Quad-4. If Oldsmobile's spirit of innovation were allowed to persist, they could have *become* something again - as they were in the 1980s, when they were breathing down the necks of Chevy and Ford in terms of sales. Then again, maybe if they'd lived past 2004 they would have just died in 2008, just like Pontiac did. All for Buick's sorry half-dead, all-foreign market ass.
7:32 - The B pillar wasn't a style bar. That was there to keep the body from twisting. It didn't offer rollover protection, but it did help with that body flex that convertibles struggle with.
The 'style bar' hoop was actually created so GM did not have to make a door with a door handle in it, since the GM10 (wbody) coupes were developed w/ b-pillar handles. It would have been more money to develop a separate door than include the hoop to connect the b-pillars.
Not only that, it was likely to accomodate for the door mounted belts (as GM largely went with those over air bags as their federally mandated active restraint of choice). The planned Beretta convertible had the same style bar (although yes, it also had the b-pillar door handles).
I inherited a 1995 Olds Cutlass Supreme SL 4 dr. same color & same wheels as your convertible it serves me well for low cost transportation and is very reliable easy to work on and in the end its a memory of my mother as she bought it new.
Sir no disrespect to u I had the same car n motor except mines was white on white with burgundy interior that car was quick in it's day n I never lost any street drag race in it it was faster than the 94 95 4.6litre mustang gt
I had this exact same car except mine was white with a white top and ruby red interior. It was a GM executive car then my mom bought it. She is a auditor so got driven quite a bit in the 90’s. When I came into the world in 2000 the car got put away and she bought a trailblazer. It sat in our garage until 2009 then got put away again back in 2010 because it needed work and we couldn’t afford to put the money into it at the time. I got the car out on moms 50th birthday and I put a new alternator on it, had the A/C converted to R134 and put new tires on it. When my mom got home the car was sitting in the yard running and she just dropped to her knees. She drove a little bit but not very much. On my birthday in February I got a present from my mom. It was the keys and the title for the car. She gave it to me because she knew I would enjoy it and drive it more than she did and I drove it for almost 4 years. Unfortunately I went to jail for something stupid that I did and needed the money for a lawyer so I had to sell the car. But the people who own it now take really good care of it if not better than I did. I still keep in contact with them once in a while. The car went to a good home and that was all I cared about at the time. Anyway that’s my story on my 93 cutlass convertible.
00:38 Those cylinder heads and the valvetrain were actually designed by Lotus who I believe also tuned the suspension for the Cutlass Supreme/Grand Prix/Lumina Z34 and they also did the DOHC 32v heads on the C4 ZR-1 Corvette (and I think they did that car's suspension as well). If I'm not mistaken, the 3.4L had to be down tuned to reduce power for the FWD automatic transmissions. In testing I think it made closer to 300hp... that testing was done in a specially equipped FWD '80s Camaro. That Camaro is now my dream car.
I am now on my second one of these, I have a 94 in cloisonné blue with the DOHC V6, my previous one was a 95 and I actually prefer the 94, the gauge cluster is nicer and other interior things are also nicer. And yes, you’re correct, it actually had to be de-tuned before production. These are very high revving engines that can take some abuse and keep on ticking.
@@withmucheffort Yeah, I loved that car. Unfortunately it spent years sitting in a barn before I got it. It belonged to my older brother when I was a little kid and then he sold it to his brother in law who left it in a barn for years. I bought it as a young adult with a love of engines but very limited diagnostic knowledge. I fixed a few minor things like a bad fuel pressure regulator and a dirty MAF sensor and I got the transmission rebuilt after the planetary gear set broke apart and the timing belt was missing a few teeth and a bit stretched which led to the timing chain breaking (yes, it has both, thank you GM). The catalytic converter was plugged so, since it was a '95 and didn't have the secondary oxygen sensor, I had the cat deleted. I still sort of hate myself for what happened to it though. After I changed the bad fuel pressure regulator I stupidly installed the new upper intake manifold gasket with silicone, not knowing that the fumes of the silicone would coat the oxygen sensor with residue and cause it to fail. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get it to run smoothly so when I moved out of the place where I had room to store it, I had to sell it with the other cars on the lot that weren't running. It hurts me to say this but I think it was crushed... the only rust was little traces of surface rust on the bottom edges of the doors and trunk lid and the front air dam was cracked, otherwise it was basically immaculate. I suspect you share my pain.
Oldsmobile was the Rocket division, but you don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand why they have the hoop bar. It seems painfully obvious that the bars purpose is at least twofold. The seat belt is attached to the B pillar and the door handle is built into this pillar as well. The convertible conversion would not have been financially feasible if these features had not been retained from the coupe. Since it has been engineered as a seat belt mounting point, I would presume that it has similar strength as the A pillars, and would at least be as effective as those pillars in a rollover. Furthermore I am sure the bar adds a significant amount of structural rigidity. Incompetent GM management (ie Roger Smith) finished off Oldsmobile. 448!?! WTF!
That was the decade where GM lost their foothold on the American market in my eyes. They had comfort over the competitors, but lost on quality and price.
Great video, love these cars. Always a shock to see them, it's like seeing a new Buick convertible.. nothing wrong, just shocking. Have to call out the 442 reference, although an 8 door version would be pretty wild. 🙃
I have this car and I love love her! Not in the greatest shape and I'd love to take her and get her all fixed up but I don't have the $. So I will drive her until she no longer lets me.
General Motors actually pioneered front wheel drive luxury cars, with the Oldsmobile Toronado, the Cadillac Eldorado and the Buick Rivera pioneering a big block V8 and front wheel drive back in the early 1960s.
I had the coupe with the 3100 engine. My mother bought it new Janurary 1995 and got a great deal on it since it was a 1994 model. I bought it off her in 2003 or 2004 with just over 101k miles and sadly had some issues with it about 2 years later and eventually left it behind as I was traveling and working seasonal jobs for a couple years, the car was just sitting in a field and since it needed some work and had two fresh large dents from someone not paying attention in a parking lot (not me), I signed over the title to someone who needed a car and had the ability to work on it. I was at the time about 3400 miles away and had no intention on ever going back to retrieve the vehicle, even though I wanted to keep it at the time. I've seen a couple come up for sale over the years and nearly pulled the trigger on picking one up. With that said, I would rather have something with a 3800 Series II engine or possibly even the L67. My grandfather had always had a LeSabre and I've been thinking about picking up a 2001-2005 LeSabre.
Corrections: The two horn placements on either side of the steering wheel ARE functional on my car as w/ likely every other Cutlass from this era. Your steering wheel just needs to be repaired. And btw, what year was the Olds, "448" manufactured?? If you think the Olds backseat is, "claustrophobic", try a modern Toyota or Kia. Oldsmobile, "didn't have it's day"....it could've continued for another 100 years. The problem was the pinheads at parent company GM & their cost-cutting implementation of platform sharing, so nearly every GM make had the same cars for sale at the dealerships with only minor trim & color differences. That idiocy killed off makes under the GM umbrella one by one. Olds put out a well done, quality product for over 100 years, a lesson you could learn from before posting your next video.
Yes! Olds did do interesting designs…the Cutlass of this era is beautiful but at the time, its cliental didn’t respond…the designs were too “radical.” What a shame…it eventually resulted in the division’s demise…Thanks for acknowledging Oldsmobile’s efforts.
My first job out of high school 04 btw I worked at a gm dealership as a lot boy/ detailer. We did free car wash and vacuum for oil changes so im lucky enough to have driven many many 90s an 2000's vehicles. Funny is I didn't like these cars then. Now we don't see em and I miss em. Lol
2000's GM vehicles did not have shifters like that. In the early 2000s GM went through a brand renewal, where they started placing those little square GM plaques on the sides of their cars, you will not find any shifter like that in any 2000's GM vehicle.
Maybe GM will bring Oldsmobile back as an EV brand like they did with Hummer, also at 11:43 great job harmonizing the Oldsmobile chime Zack love the review
Wonderful review on my 1st car man I really appreciate you taking the time to do it Doug Demiro style very thorough and perfect I'm a subscriber subscriber!
Imagine a cuttlas supreme with a LS swap i would live it i had a 90 cuttlas id like to do the swap on this year 93 convertible would that be possible???
I just saw this same car and color in a Pick and Pull yard in American Canyon, CA, someone took all the bucket seats out of it, it was still in great condition, to bad it was crushed, I still think GM should have offered a V8 in these.
We also have. 93 convertible with 3.4DOHC and changed top with one side metal framenreinforcement since it was cracked and for everything we paid 1800$ for everything back in February.
My mom had a red 93 cutlass suppreme coupe don't remember if it had the 3.1 or 3.4 v6 but the sound it made while trying to start in the middle of the Midwest winter is a sound I'll never forget.
I had a non convertible version of the 2 door and the fog light was in the spot where they decided to mount the convertible switch in this version. Also the style bar was there because of the way GM did the door handles on those 80s-90s W body cars (Cutlass, Lumina, Grand Prix, and Regal)
I had a black 92 vert with graphite leather interior back in 94/95. I totalled it in April 95. Luckily I was not hurt but I have missed the car over the years.
Important point: 10 years earlier the Cutlass Supreme was the most popular selling car in America. They sold over 1,000,000 Oldsmobiles per year. It wasn’t the name that killed the brand. It was horrible leadership by the then CEO of Oldsmobile that destroyed the brand. Imagine Toyota getting wiped out in 20 years? This same CEO was moved to to SAAB and killed that division in no time at all.
Technically it was a quad cam, which it says right on top of the engine cover. Each head had 2 cams, a 24 valve engine, versus a traditional 12 valve V6. Each head had an independent cam devoted to the exhaust valves, and intake valves, rather than having double the lobes on just 1 cam per head. Having a single cam operating 4 valves per cylinder would have made spacing for the valves incredibly difficult. Less space between valves would have required harder metals, which would have cost more money, and have been more difficult to machine, making machining the heads much more difficult, making machining costs for the head higher. So it just cost less just to have independent cams. 1 cam for the exhaust valves, and 1 cam for the intake valves, per head. Thus creating a more room for each valve, allowing for cheaper metals, which were softer and easier to machine, making machining costs less expensive, and ultimately saving money on research, development, and production. 4 overhead cam, not dual overhead cam. Then there is the argument that it had two heads, so technically calling it a dual overhead cam was correct, but this has been a point of contention in the automotive world for a long time. Most people just referring to this type of engine is a dual overhead cam. This is misleading, when in actuality it's a quad cam engine.
7:33. The seat belt attached to the doors is GM's version of the automatic seat belts for cars of this vintage (roughly 1989-1993) that were not equipped with airbags. The belt buckle was technically an emergency release, you were supposed to slide in underneath the belts and you're buckled when you close the door, of course 99.9 % of users treat them as manual belts, but this was enough to meet the criteria for the passive restraint system mandates at the time. I watched another video you uploaded about the automatic seat belt system fairly common in late 80s and early 90s cars and really liked the history lessons, but you left out the GM version.
The action on the convertible top that I just saw, was absolutely fine! Didn't take too long, fell right into place, reach up and latch it, what else do you need?
I have one of these in all black I’m trying to restore right now it runs but has electricity problems that drain the battery and I haven’t found what it is yet
So that bar is just fucking ugly for no good reason? I was certain that it was for rollover safety purposes but if they actually made it that way because they thought it looked good then I don't feel bad for Oldsmobile dying a mere 11 years after this car was made.
@@jaimem.altadonna3117 lmao it looks like shit, would be cool if the cockpit were completely open. As shitty as GM is though I wouldn't be surprised if they put it there to trick people into thinking it was extra safe.
@@broman260 They HAD to install it b/c of the seat belt shoulder anchor point on the B-pillar on the coupe, and the door handle being on the B-pillar on the Cutlass/Lumina/Grand Prix/Regal.
That was my idea as well I would love to convert my favorite GM W Body cars such as the 1989-97 Cutlass Supreme coupe the 97-08 Grand Prix or the 95-07 Monte Carlo the body of all these cars were so wide that in my opinion GM did them a disservice by making the fwd
Lifelong Olds owner. Made the mistake of buying a '93 Cutlass International coupe brand new same stellar blue color. Lots of issues when new: windshield leaked, trunk leaked, exhaust rattled, leather interior but the factory installed a cloth panel in the door. Poorly fitting interior & cheap looking. Massive torque steer when starting from a stop, so much that the steering wheel jerked over a lot. I kept it three years and sold it in 1996. Worst Olds I ever owned. Bought an '87 442 new and I still have it so I'm not a hater... best car I ever owned.
Even though you had issues with your 93, that would have been a rare one. Even more so than your 87 442 production numbers wise. Only 640 total production for the International Series cars for their last year.
Oldsmobiole is NOT the second oldest car company in the world, that's probably in the US. Mercedes-benz (effectively daimler AND benz), Panhard, Tatra all predate Oldsmobile...even Opel predates it.
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This Car Was Under Appreciated & Beautiful in Convertible! Also That 3.4 was almost as fast as the 3.8 Supercharged with only 40 more horsepower lol
Definitely under rated. I had one with that 3.4 and was pretty powerful for not having a supercharger. One of the best cars I ever owned.
There was one in our neighborhood and all of us would've taken it as teens
I couldn't agree more.
the 3.4 was faster ..i think this one is kinda tired
Yes, nice! Please make more of these 80s and 90s domestic car reviews! Very interesting to watch as a European.
This is a Medium Quasar Blue car. Only 237 examples made in this color with Graphite interior and Black top.
For all those saying the roll bar is structural...this is NOT true. These convertibles started out life as coupes at the GM plant in Doraville, GA and then were converted into convertibles by another outside company. The coupe bodies had their roof structure removed and structural bracing throughout the body was added. Reinforcements in the rocker areas, strut tower brace added, rear section behind the rear seats was reinforced, etc. The roll bar was kept ONLY for the mount location of the exterior door handles...that is all. These convertibles after their bodies were modified were then finished off on the trim lines and sent out the door. Again, ALL 90-95 convertibles started out life as full coupe bodies at GM.
Production ended for the convertibles in 1995. Due to GM relocating the Cutlass Supreme line to the Kansas City plant, it wouldn't have made sense financially to continue making the convertibles since logistically, it would have been very expensive shipping the coupe bodies to the conversion facility. This is why no more convertibles were made after 1995.
I had this engine in a 1991 Lumina Z34. Great engine.
That car was an eye catcher when it came out.
Still and always will be
I have the exact same car and model year, but in black. I love it, and it is true, that turning radius is really bad. Great review!
You get that special feeling in an Oldsmobile, but GM didn't think so!
Lol no way that was a real dealer name lol! . Great video!.
The headlights looks oddly familiar
In my opinion olds was the best of gm it was the first car i ever rode in
Why wasn't the 3.4 more widely deployed and used by GM?
Because changing the timing belt is a beeotch.
Radwood contender for sure
i have a lumina 3.4 5 speed
Not gonna win any races .. meanwhile it was faster than almost all cars available at the time .. this kid knows very little about cars clearly.
I have a question. What happened to your white 98 Ram?
Sold it to a friend in 2018, and I believe it’s scrapped now due to rust :(
@@ShootingCars Bummer. I'm thinking of getting a second gen in a few years as a college beater and a truck camper
I have to disagree on the whole time-to-go narrative in this video. It deserved to go no more than something like Buick or Saturn did - especially at the point where Olds was at the time. In fact, I think they could have had a better future than Buick did, as they simply had more oomph in terms of what they were - while the name was, uh, 'Olds', the tech was new. Aurora was theirs. The Northstar was started by them. They made the Quad-4. If Oldsmobile's spirit of innovation were allowed to persist, they could have *become* something again - as they were in the 1980s, when they were breathing down the necks of Chevy and Ford in terms of sales. Then again, maybe if they'd lived past 2004 they would have just died in 2008, just like Pontiac did. All for Buick's sorry half-dead, all-foreign market ass.
Another NCE convertible.. so many car companies have had their cars made into convertibles by this company.
Junk
I've always admired 80s and early 90s automotive styling.
7:32 - The B pillar wasn't a style bar. That was there to keep the body from twisting. It didn't offer rollover protection, but it did help with that body flex that convertibles struggle with.
The 'style bar' hoop was actually created so GM did not have to make a door with a door handle in it, since the GM10 (wbody) coupes were developed w/ b-pillar handles. It would have been more money to develop a separate door than include the hoop to connect the b-pillars.
Not only that, it was likely to accomodate for the door mounted belts (as GM largely went with those over air bags as their federally mandated active restraint of choice). The planned Beretta convertible had the same style bar (although yes, it also had the b-pillar door handles).
Added stability
I inherited a 1995 Olds Cutlass Supreme SL 4 dr. same color & same wheels as your convertible it serves me well for low cost transportation and is very reliable easy to work on and in the end its a memory of my mother as she bought it new.
Sir no disrespect to u I had the same car n motor except mines was white on white with burgundy interior that car was quick in it's day n I never lost any street drag race in it it was faster than the 94 95 4.6litre mustang gt
Something I loved about these 2 doors
I had this exact same car except mine was white with a white top and ruby red interior. It was a GM executive car then my mom bought it. She is a auditor so got driven quite a bit in the 90’s. When I came into the world in 2000 the car got put away and she bought a trailblazer. It sat in our garage until 2009 then got put away again back in 2010 because it needed work and we couldn’t afford to put the money into it at the time. I got the car out on moms 50th birthday and I put a new alternator on it, had the A/C converted to R134 and put new tires on it. When my mom got home the car was sitting in the yard running and she just dropped to her knees. She drove a little bit but not very much. On my birthday in February I got a present from my mom. It was the keys and the title for the car. She gave it to me because she knew I would enjoy it and drive it more than she did and I drove it for almost 4 years. Unfortunately I went to jail for something stupid that I did and needed the money for a lawyer so I had to sell the car. But the people who own it now take really good care of it if not better than I did. I still keep in contact with them once in a while. The car went to a good home and that was all I cared about at the time. Anyway that’s my story on my 93 cutlass convertible.
00:38 Those cylinder heads and the valvetrain were actually designed by Lotus who I believe also tuned the suspension for the Cutlass Supreme/Grand Prix/Lumina Z34 and they also did the DOHC 32v heads on the C4 ZR-1 Corvette (and I think they did that car's suspension as well). If I'm not mistaken, the 3.4L had to be down tuned to reduce power for the FWD automatic transmissions. In testing I think it made closer to 300hp... that testing was done in a specially equipped FWD '80s Camaro. That Camaro is now my dream car.
Wow amazing info thanks brother 💪
I am now on my second one of these, I have a 94 in cloisonné blue with the DOHC V6, my previous one was a 95 and I actually prefer the 94, the gauge cluster is nicer and other interior things are also nicer. And yes, you’re correct, it actually had to be de-tuned before production. These are very high revving engines that can take some abuse and keep on ticking.
@@withmucheffort I had a '95 GTP with the tan leather interior.
@@Where_is_Waldo very nice
@@withmucheffort Yeah, I loved that car. Unfortunately it spent years sitting in a barn before I got it. It belonged to my older brother when I was a little kid and then he sold it to his brother in law who left it in a barn for years. I bought it as a young adult with a love of engines but very limited diagnostic knowledge. I fixed a few minor things like a bad fuel pressure regulator and a dirty MAF sensor and I got the transmission rebuilt after the planetary gear set broke apart and the timing belt was missing a few teeth and a bit stretched which led to the timing chain breaking (yes, it has both, thank you GM). The catalytic converter was plugged so, since it was a '95 and didn't have the secondary oxygen sensor, I had the cat deleted. I still sort of hate myself for what happened to it though. After I changed the bad fuel pressure regulator I stupidly installed the new upper intake manifold gasket with silicone, not knowing that the fumes of the silicone would coat the oxygen sensor with residue and cause it to fail. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get it to run smoothly so when I moved out of the place where I had room to store it, I had to sell it with the other cars on the lot that weren't running. It hurts me to say this but I think it was crushed... the only rust was little traces of surface rust on the bottom edges of the doors and trunk lid and the front air dam was cracked, otherwise it was basically immaculate. I suspect you share my pain.
Bro my dad has a white cutlass and its gonna be my first car
Please do us all a favor then....RESPECT his Cutlass & it's heritage & don't trash his car.
442 noob
Just bought one from the auction for $1225
Oldsmobile was the Rocket division, but you don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand why they have the hoop bar. It seems painfully obvious that the bars purpose is at least twofold. The seat belt is attached to the B pillar and the door handle is built into this pillar as well. The convertible conversion would not have been financially feasible if these features had not been retained from the coupe. Since it has been engineered as a seat belt mounting point, I would presume that it has similar strength as the A pillars, and would at least be as effective as those pillars in a rollover. Furthermore I am sure the bar adds a significant amount of structural rigidity. Incompetent GM management (ie Roger Smith) finished off Oldsmobile. 448!?! WTF!
Great car till the alternator dies and you have to drop the sub frame!
Its not a style bar. Its a stabilizer bar keeping the body from flexing during cornering
Oldsmobile called it a Structural Hoop
Beretta had this in 1990, but never was available for the public. Only a handful were made.
Style bar lol. In high school someone used this every year for the floats.
The fake roll bar was be cause they didnt want to make new doors the door handles and seat belts are on that part
No A/C? What about heat? Does that convertible has a heater for the winter?
That was the decade where GM lost their foothold on the American market in my eyes. They had comfort over the competitors, but lost on quality and price.
Commenting to say I appreciate the oldsmobile cutmore
Great video, love these cars. Always a shock to see them, it's like seeing a new Buick convertible.. nothing wrong, just shocking. Have to call out the 442 reference, although an 8 door version would be pretty wild. 🙃
How that would fit into the quad 442 would be interesting
4 cylinder
4 valves
8 cams
Lol
I had a 1969 442 convertible, still looking for that 448.
Totally in 1980s interior, how it made it to 1993 is beyond me...
I love the seats
I have this car and I love love her! Not in the greatest shape and I'd love to take her and get her all fixed up but I don't have the $. So I will drive her until she no longer lets me.
General Motors actually pioneered front wheel drive luxury cars, with the Oldsmobile Toronado, the Cadillac Eldorado and the Buick Rivera pioneering a big block V8 and front wheel drive back in the early 1960s.
I had the coupe with the 3100 engine. My mother bought it new Janurary 1995 and got a great deal on it since it was a 1994 model. I bought it off her in 2003 or 2004 with just over 101k miles and sadly had some issues with it about 2 years later and eventually left it behind as I was traveling and working seasonal jobs for a couple years, the car was just sitting in a field and since it needed some work and had two fresh large dents from someone not paying attention in a parking lot (not me), I signed over the title to someone who needed a car and had the ability to work on it. I was at the time about 3400 miles away and had no intention on ever going back to retrieve the vehicle, even though I wanted to keep it at the time.
I've seen a couple come up for sale over the years and nearly pulled the trigger on picking one up. With that said, I would rather have something with a 3800 Series II engine or possibly even the L67. My grandfather had always had a LeSabre and I've been thinking about picking up a 2001-2005 LeSabre.
Corrections: The two horn placements on either side of the steering wheel ARE functional on my car as w/ likely every other Cutlass from this era. Your steering wheel just needs to be repaired. And btw, what year was the Olds, "448" manufactured?? If you think the Olds backseat is, "claustrophobic", try a modern Toyota or Kia. Oldsmobile, "didn't have it's day"....it could've continued for another 100 years. The problem was the pinheads at parent company GM & their cost-cutting implementation of platform sharing, so nearly every GM make had the same cars for sale at the dealerships with only minor trim & color differences. That idiocy killed off makes under the GM umbrella one by one. Olds put out a well done, quality product for over 100 years, a lesson you could learn from before posting your next video.
Yes! Olds did do interesting designs…the Cutlass of this era is beautiful but at the time, its cliental didn’t respond…the designs were too “radical.” What a shame…it eventually resulted in the division’s demise…Thanks for acknowledging Oldsmobile’s efforts.
My first job out of high school 04 btw I worked at a gm dealership as a lot boy/ detailer. We did free car wash and vacuum for oil changes so im lucky enough to have driven many many 90s an 2000's vehicles. Funny is I didn't like these cars then. Now we don't see em and I miss em. Lol
I really enjoyed this video. Excellent work and refreshing. Keep up the good content sir.
I just bought a 95, green over white. It's quite the pile now, but should be nice in a year or so.
2000's GM vehicles did not have shifters like that. In the early 2000s GM went through a brand renewal, where they started placing those little square GM plaques on the sides of their cars, you will not find any shifter like that in any 2000's GM vehicle.
Maybe GM will bring Oldsmobile back as an EV brand like they did with Hummer, also at 11:43 great job harmonizing the Oldsmobile chime Zack love the review
my dad had one of these when I was born. he got a 98’ riviera afterwards
If Buicks were not so popular in china, Olds or Pontiac would still be around today, and Buick would be gone
Wonderful review on my 1st car man I really appreciate you taking the time to do it Doug Demiro style very thorough and perfect I'm a subscriber subscriber!
Beautiful car. Love the micro headlights like the 4th gen Camaros had up until 98. Olds 442.................... not 448. just saying.
Imagine a cuttlas supreme with a LS swap i would live it i had a 90 cuttlas id like to do the swap on this year 93 convertible would that be possible???
Love
Rare color
I just saw this same car and color in a Pick and Pull yard in American Canyon, CA, someone took all the bucket seats out of it, it was still in great condition, to bad it was crushed, I still think GM should have offered a V8 in these.
Oldsmobile isn't a company
Those cars are made by GM
We also have. 93 convertible with 3.4DOHC and changed top with one side metal framenreinforcement since it was cracked and for everything we paid 1800$ for everything back in February.
Some 17x9 Daytons and I’m cruising 💯
Drive carefully, you won't need an airbag!
That car will move guy,you should have stood in it
I never realized that these actually had six windows on the sides
I love the positioning of the cruise control. It stays in place instead of moving around with the steering wheel.
My mom had a red 93 cutlass suppreme coupe don't remember if it had the 3.1 or 3.4 v6 but the sound it made while trying to start in the middle of the Midwest winter is a sound I'll never forget.
was one of my dream cars in terms of styling back then. great video. could we have one with the Grand Prix McLaren? another forgotten icon
Or the tornedo
On this one the fog lamp switch is where my power top switch is mine.
I had a non convertible version of the 2 door and the fog light was in the spot where they decided to mount the convertible switch in this version. Also the style bar was there because of the way GM did the door handles on those 80s-90s W body cars (Cutlass, Lumina, Grand Prix, and Regal)
It also added stability
Maaaan... I wanted one of those SO bad as a kid hahahahaha
Love this, it was my first car (black triple).
Come to Indiana and drive my 1939 LaSalle
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That hoop is only there for the door handle.
GM didn't 😮 about a lot of things!
Nice I own a 1987
I had a black 92 vert with graphite leather interior back in 94/95. I totalled it in April 95. Luckily I was not hurt but I have missed the car over the years.
Important point:
10 years earlier the Cutlass Supreme was the most popular selling car in America. They sold over 1,000,000 Oldsmobiles per year.
It wasn’t the name that killed the brand. It was horrible leadership by the then CEO of Oldsmobile that destroyed the brand. Imagine Toyota getting wiped out in 20 years? This same CEO was moved to to SAAB and killed that division in no time at all.
7:17 That looks like the interior of my old '95 Grand Prix GTP except mine was tan instead of black.
Technically it was a quad cam, which it says right on top of the engine cover. Each head had 2 cams, a 24 valve engine, versus a traditional 12 valve V6. Each head had an independent cam devoted to the exhaust valves, and intake valves, rather than having double the lobes on just 1 cam per head. Having a single cam operating 4 valves per cylinder would have made spacing for the valves incredibly difficult. Less space between valves would have required harder metals, which would have cost more money, and have been more difficult to machine, making machining the heads much more difficult, making machining costs for the head higher. So it just cost less just to have independent cams. 1 cam for the exhaust valves, and 1 cam for the intake valves, per head. Thus creating a more room for each valve, allowing for cheaper metals, which were softer and easier to machine, making machining costs less expensive, and ultimately saving money on research, development, and production. 4 overhead cam, not dual overhead cam.
Then there is the argument that it had two heads, so technically calling it a dual overhead cam was correct, but this has been a point of contention in the automotive world for a long time. Most people just referring to this type of engine is a dual overhead cam. This is misleading, when in actuality it's a quad cam engine.
Fatty pattys bottle wont fit
7:33. The seat belt attached to the doors is GM's version of the automatic seat belts for cars of this vintage (roughly 1989-1993) that were not equipped with airbags. The belt buckle was technically an emergency release, you were supposed to slide in underneath the belts and you're buckled when you close the door, of course 99.9 % of users treat them as manual belts, but this was enough to meet the criteria for the passive restraint system mandates at the time. I watched another video you uploaded about the automatic seat belt system fairly common in late 80s and early 90s cars and really liked the history lessons, but you left out the GM version.
The action on the convertible top that I just saw, was absolutely fine! Didn't take too long, fell right into place, reach up and latch it, what else do you need?
448? 😂😂 Sidown kid.
The bottle would have fit if you expanded the center cupholder; careful though, mine broke off.
My coupe's fog light switch is where your convertible top up/down switch is.
I have one of these in all black I’m trying to restore right now it runs but has electricity problems that drain the battery and I haven’t found what it is yet
This car still looks better then half the cars on the road today, especially the 2 door ones I had a 4 door and loved it as my 1st car
I don't know if you mentioned it, but it has a wide turning radius.
Now you really need to drive my Quad 442
It was a cool little convertible
I love these
Nice review man!!
They made cutlasses until 1997
After 97 still. Rebadged Chevy Malibu at that point though. 97 was the last year for the coupes, 95 for the convertibles.
So that bar is just fucking ugly for no good reason? I was certain that it was for rollover safety purposes but if they actually made it that way because they thought it looked good then I don't feel bad for Oldsmobile dying a mere 11 years after this car was made.
That bar makes the car you idiot. Stop hating
@@jaimem.altadonna3117 lmao it looks like shit, would be cool if the cockpit were completely open. As shitty as GM is though I wouldn't be surprised if they put it there to trick people into thinking it was extra safe.
@@broman260 They HAD to install it b/c of the seat belt shoulder anchor point on the B-pillar on the coupe, and the door handle being on the B-pillar on the Cutlass/Lumina/Grand Prix/Regal.
I love the hard top version of this year model. I really want to take one and make it a rwd car just because of how awesome it looks.
That was my idea as well I would love to convert my favorite GM W Body cars such as the 1989-97 Cutlass Supreme coupe the 97-08 Grand Prix or the 95-07 Monte Carlo the body of all these cars were so wide that in my opinion GM did them a disservice by making the fwd
Lifelong Olds owner. Made the mistake of buying a '93 Cutlass International coupe brand new same stellar blue color. Lots of issues when new: windshield leaked, trunk leaked, exhaust rattled, leather interior but the factory installed a cloth panel in the door. Poorly fitting interior & cheap looking. Massive torque steer when starting from a stop, so much that the steering wheel jerked over a lot. I kept it three years and sold it in 1996. Worst Olds I ever owned. Bought an '87 442 new and I still have it so I'm not a hater... best car I ever owned.
Even though you had issues with your 93, that would have been a rare one. Even more so than your 87 442 production numbers wise. Only 640 total production for the International Series cars for their last year.
Oldsmobiole is NOT the second oldest car company in the world, that's probably in the US. Mercedes-benz (effectively daimler AND benz), Panhard, Tatra all predate Oldsmobile...even Opel predates it.
You can pull on the cup holder and it will get wider.
It WOULD pass the big bottle test ;)