It's still rather sad.... and I still think Olds had more style and direction than Buick, even if Buick was outselling Olds at the time...

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Would have been nice to see superchargers on those last 500 Aleros. Maybe a s/c 3.4L rated 242HP could have been called Olds 242. kind of a tribute to the old 442 olds in a way.

 

Very sad.

 

I agree. that would have been a nice idea.

 

They should ingrave this on the tombstone:


"It should have been Saturn"

 

Its too bad, Gm lost touch with oldsmobile's roots and just kept it as the back draft economy car version for the middle aged crowd, wrather then produce anything sporty its all been bland and wrather blah, nothing remotely attractive other then the alero. Plus what did they have a 3 car line up, alero, bravada, and cutlass? I would wrather see saturn go

 

 

Olds had the best car line at GM when they pulled the plug. The Intrigue was the best overall W-body with its classy interior and 3.5 DOHC engine, the Alero was what the Grand Am could have been without its tacky cladding and hideous dash (proof of the car's popularity is how its still a popular fleet car and "pimped out" Aleros are all over the place around here), and even Lutz himself said the Aurora had GM's best interior (not that that's saying a lot, but still)....

If they made a 2 door Intrigue, I'd own an Intrigue instead. Now, my girlfriend will continue to buy late model low-mileage Olds' for as long as we can get our hands on them...they're cheap, and better than any other comparable GM car made...

I miss Olds...a lot....

 

we will never see a new 442

 

Actually the Olds lineup was strong and had lots of money poured into keeping it going.

The buying public didn't respond. Look in your driveway and if there's no Olds you might understand why it went away.

Good vehicles that didn't sell. Tons of advertising dollars... anyone here buy one?

 

i think that had more to do with the fact that it was a GM product than it was anything else. remember how when the aurora was first introduced it didn't have any Olds badges? the public's view of GM itself reflected how Olds was perceived. buy that time there weren't that many loyal Olds buyers left and whatever were left probably weren't enough to make a dent in new product sales. it just wasn't a radical enough of a transformation to pull new customers in like the Caddy's was.

 

Buick was "thriving" compared to Olds just 4 short years ago when the original announcement was made to cancel Olds... Buick sales are in the tank now. Makes you wonder if they made the right choice.

 

just a tribute post, from a son who grew up, and was carpooled in oldsmobiles...after 100 years, that brand deserved a better ending.

 

my grandma had one she had one new back in the 80's cut supreme and bought an 2000 cutlass, my father owned a 442 back in 84. So i would say my family kept the olds fever going...atleast for a while

Also the only reason why buick was doing better was because of newer designs, and tiger woods. What did olds sponcer? Nothing, it got no PR nothing. Heck i havent seen an olds ad in as long as i can remember, now all i see is pontiac this and Chevy revolution that, as well as the occasional caddy ad. Nothing for olds in a while. It had one of those camaroish deaths, no pr, no r&d just let it die kinda attitude

 

it was just on a different curve of decline. hopefully Buick can salvage it's image with new CARS and not have to resort/rely on truck/suv sales to keep quantities up.