Ayy I just got a 96 X-90 back in April! Loving it so far! It makes delivering pizza so much easier than my previous car haha. That 95 hp kinda sucks when a majority of your daily commute is up a mountain though lol.
My daily driver is a’97 LSS. It’s incredibly rare that I come across another and I plan to keep it until it dies. It only has 88K on the clock so hopefully it will keep on going for a long time.
I think the main problem was the brand name. Not so many people eager about the name "old" for their brand new car. The real money is in high volume economy cars, not luxury model like Aurora.
I'm not being disrespectful, but so I can understand, how do you drive a 2001 model from 2000? In the US, are you able to buy the next model year early?
@@nicksmpsn6546 I am VERY happy with this car. In my driving career, I have driven more than 100 cars ranging from the 1941 to the 2020 model years, and this 2001 Aurora is the best of the bunch.
One of the worst, best looking cars I've ever owned. I wanted to love it, but it was almost unfix-able, no matter what I fixed something else broke, a definition of a beautiful mess.
My wife had a red 95 in high school. It was a cool car with a nice interior, but once the engine started having trouble we had to dump it as I couldn’t keep it running consistently and parts were non existent.
the Aurora was a name recycled from a Cadillac Show Car from 1990 I'll say it was the last Great Oldsmobile sedan the only one to come after it was the less than Stellar Alero and technically the Aurora was produced from 1995-2003 some of its production overlapped with the cars it was supposed to replace the 98 and the 88 my uncle Joe got his driver's license in the Coupe version of the 98 in February 1974 and mum got hers in a 1978 Delta 88 sedan neither of which were small cars both over 18 ft long and Uncle Joe drove a Porsche 911 turbo which was 4 Ft shorter than the Oldsmobile's were and 4.3 ft shorter than a Cadillac Sedan Deville was at that time 221 in or 18.42 ft
An Aurora for a Thunderbird, quite a trade for sure! Was it worth it?🙃 It was interesting to learn more about this car, especially given how rare they are in my surroundings. Thanks a lot!🤗
Well put together video. It was well thought out. Great footage as well. The information was correct as well except for one thing. The Antares concept car became Oldsmobile Intrigue. The Anatres name was supposed to be used on the Eighty Eight replacement. The other information is correct. I liked how you included the design sketches and more. Why did new Oldsmobile fail? Marketing, and brand management. There was not an issue with the Oldsmobile name. It was the branding on the cars and the fact they walked away from established brand names and therefore alienating the current Oldsmobile buyer. Aurora should have been called Toronado and Intrigue the Cutlass Supreme. It actually was supposed to be branded Cutlass Supreme, but they decided on Intrigue late in development. Had the car replacing the Eighty Eight had been produced, that would have helped. Not offering front bench seats was a factor also. Another factor was GM trying to turn Oldsmobile into a import fighter. It was not going to be an import fighter and some home style American effort would have made a impact. The new styling was not the issue. The new styling needed traditional Oldsmobile names to resonate with the market. I say all of this an a owner of two Oldsmobiles : a 1996 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight and a 1992 Oldsmobile Toronado. Thank you again for the video.
Thanks a lot! I should have thought about that one, the Antares does indeed look a lot like the Intrigue, but I just thought that the Intrigue was simply adapting to the new design language. You do have a very good point, Oldsmobile tried alienating their current customers, and the launch of the import-fighting Aurora only doubled down on that. Sad to see Oldsmobile gone now, even though I honestly can't imagine how their lineup would look like nowadays, thanks for a great comment!😁
@@RedLine_Car_Show The lineup would be crossovers and suv's and maybe a sedan or two in 2024. It was down to five vehicles by the end in 2004. Thank you for your response. By the way the Aurora shared a lot of parts with other GM cars. The steering wheel, the radio, the seat controls, the wheels , the seats were shared with Ninety Eight, Eighty Eight and LSS. The chassis was shared with Buick Riviera as you started. When Oldsmobile went away, the seats from the second generation Aurora ended up in the Pontiac Bonneville. I subscribed to your channel. I need to watch your Buick Grand National video.
The problem with Oldsmobile was the first three letters of the name… no young person wanted to drive an “old” man’s car! The Aurora was fantastic, and should have been turned into a new separate brand for GM, but they didn’t, and tried to sell a futuristic car to a demographic that wanted boxy cars.
Exactly, it was literally in the name! I too think that the only two best outcomes for GM in this case would be either starting a whole new separate "Aurora" brand, or completely rebranding Olds as such, although the first option probably sounds better
the models that came next i tried them all but i kept the two 70´s models , nice video, mine is 77 , the second i bought, only changed the side mirrors from the huge squares to the sportive ones from Alpine, mine is white, i remenber in the 90´s when i drove it some would saw only bad things about it but never had a complain all maintenance was done. the Stratos from lancia was the one who got away ,it was hard to find one and always extremelly expensive
my favorite car from renault the mid 70´s model i remenber some relation with Lotus and the back seems a lot like the back of the Europa, but recentelly no one seems to know nothing about it
this new one never saw it in reality but have the early 70´s Alpine and second half of the 70´s my favorite renault alpine, early renaults like the alpine looks a lot like early porshe cars,
We ended Up buying a 740 After a breakdown with a little Ford, Headgasket, 400 Miles from Home. The Quality of the Volvo, built in 89, is unbelievable after all this years. It will never be for sale
Mediocre results? I think this term is too arch if you consider F1 results (1 victory, P5, P4, P6), and even pre-Hypercar WEC results. It might not be great (although many would kill to win a race in F1), but it doesn't deserve this mediocre label.
I followed the prices of A310 closely around the mid 80s. There were many available at that time here in Germany, some with Gotti wheels and Devil exhaust systems, for under 20thou DM. I was not scared of the rather simple mechanics as with e.g. Alfa Montreals (which were believe it or not on the market for the same price!) but insurance was prohibitive for me. To me it appears like a small DTPantera. Thanks for the fine video. :)
The same powerplant of the DeLorean with the reliability of a large manufacturer. If Renault sold the Alpine in the USA instead of their diminutive econoboxes, they would had succeed!
Indeed, it feels like that's the only way the French "quirkyness" would have a chance to flourish in the setting of the American market. It's unlikely that the common American folk would ever get used to the unusual and weird French daily-driving econoboxes 🙃
It does look like it indeed! And it appears, that the similarities are more than coincidental too! Given that Trevor Fiore had to work on both of these, even in the picture I've used for Trevor Fiore, he's holding a model of what appears to be a Monteverdi Hai!
Your video about the Mazda Eunos Cosmo appeared on my RU-vid homepage and out of curiosity I watched it (I'm a huge fan of rotary engine, i have an RX8 and realy love it) and then at the end of the video RU-vid suggested me this video about the A310. My parents have 2 Alpine A310, one red 1600VE from 1971 (chasis number 0096, on of the 100 first A310 produced) and one yellow 2700VAA from 1983 so my curiosity pushed me to also watch this video. The red one on your video is the one from my father (Jean-Marc Aeschelmann), how pleasant is it to see it featured in a RU-vid video that explains really well the story of this model and Alpine in general, really nice video 😁
Oh wow, that's pretty cool! 😁 Didn't expect to feature a car that actually belongs to my viewers, but I guess that's welcome, not to mention it's one of the earliest A310's as well, neat! Though I must ask, how do you even service and upkeep these? I'm guessing there are dedicated communities for these cars that do a major part in that, but I'm just pretty curious to hear about it overall! 🙂 P.S. The RX-8's are also cool, I see, you're keeping up with the family tradition of owning a sporty coupe! Very nice!
@@RedLine_Car_Show We do practically everything by ourselves, all the maintenence and reparations, except when we didn't have te skills or tool (like for the body repars, or weel alignment), for the A310 my father have a lots of technical documentation because internet did not exist at the time when he bought it 😄 For sure! Sporty coupe for pleasure and comfortable sedans for daily driving 😁
Yep! Alpine had an agreement with Willys-Overland, and the A108's were also built in Brazil, known as "Willys Interlagos". If I remember correctly, just a few over 800 were made🙃
Totally, as I've seen, Renault didn't even want Americans to drive the next model - the A610's! Given the door stickers that were warning the potential American customer that there's nowhere to officially service the A610's! Pretty neat rides for sure, both the A310 and A610!
This was very well done 👌 The similarities the Stealth shared with the '88 Intrepid concept are undeniable and something I wasn't aware of. ✅ _LIKED_ ✅ _SUBBED_
…that was well laid out & highly informative. I am in the SF Bay Area and recently sold my 1992 740 Turbo Wagon that I have owned since 1999 and in excellent shape. She had 101K miles for she was my airport car in Portland. I had so much fun with this peppy wagon and am glad it was purchased by an enthusiast from Carmel, CA.
One used to park round the corner from where I live, it was crusty as Hell. Still least it was from a time when car manufacturers were willing to take a risk in design rather than the cookie cutter bland stuff you get today. It's a popular vehicle in autocross too, and still better looking than the latest BMW's 🦫🤮
I too see one time to time not so far from my house, and it's one of the Philippe Cousteau Edition vehicles as well! They look really interesting, and I wouldn't even mind using one as a daily, although ones I see for sale (if they even go up for sale, that is) are already heavily modified for off-road usage 🙃
@@RedLine_Car_Show that special edition looked awesome, hope the bodykit doesn't hide a multitude of rusty sins. Such an interesting and odd choice for a special edition. Great videos btw, thank you 🤘
I had two, still own one Philippe Cousteau edition, and it's the best car in the world. Love that car, it just does everything and never fails. Looks is a matter of taste, but I think its a fun car that makes me smile every time I drive it. Also own a Suzuki Cappuccino and it's the same with that one. Great cars!
Glad to hear that! When I was writing up the script for this video - I was pleasantly surprised with the amount of support from 3000GT/GTO/Stealth owners, and the 3SI forum, along with the 3Swiki helped me out a lot! Browsed around & found an answer to just about every question I had! 😁
XJ40 was the first Jaguar drawn with a computer - Sir Bill Lyons approved. Rover SD1 was the first British car done so - in 1976. Daimler is pronounced 'Dame-ler' in English - 'Dime-ler' in Germanic languages. Vanden Plas is pronounced 'Varn-den Plars' - it's Belgian. Great video - some great footage cobbled together. Thumbs up!
