My 2001 Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 83,000 Miles
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I always see so many of those things in the junkyard...head gaskets blown like crazy even under 100k...hopefully yours lasts awhile, looks really clean...
I really wanted to buy one based on the styling inside and out until i found out about the head gaskets, 2001 was the worst year too!
http://www.carcomplaints.com/Oldsmobile/Aurora/
I really wanted to buy one based on the styling inside and out until i found out about the head gaskets, 2001 was the worst year too!
http://www.carcomplaints.com/Oldsmobile/Aurora/
Nice car. It needs the chrome factory wheels.
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Beautiful car! Oldsmobile has always been one of my favorites.
Nice ride!
The Aurora ushered in a new era of really tight chassis designs by GM, in terms of structural rigidity. The W platform (Grand Prix, etc) and K platform (Cadillac Seville/DeVille) used at the time were relatively flexy. The Aurora's new G platform set a new standard for the brand. GM consolidated much of their FWD stable to the G platform in the mid-to-late 1990s. The final cars on that platform are the Buick Lucerne and Cadillac DTS.
I've long had a love affair with Oldsmobile -- my first car was an '84 Cutlass. I was in Lansing in 1997, at Oldsmobile's centennial celebration. It was an awesome time, with a lot of excitement around the Aurora, the new Intrigue, etc. They had a parade of nearly every Oldsmobile model every made -- it was quite a show to see a rolling history of the brand, culminating with a number of Curved Dashes lumbering down E. Michigan Avenue. If you're in the Michigan area, a stop to the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum in Lansing is worth your time.
The Aurora ushered in a new era of really tight chassis designs by GM, in terms of structural rigidity. The W platform (Grand Prix, etc) and K platform (Cadillac Seville/DeVille) used at the time were relatively flexy. The Aurora's new G platform set a new standard for the brand. GM consolidated much of their FWD stable to the G platform in the mid-to-late 1990s. The final cars on that platform are the Buick Lucerne and Cadillac DTS.
I've long had a love affair with Oldsmobile -- my first car was an '84 Cutlass. I was in Lansing in 1997, at Oldsmobile's centennial celebration. It was an awesome time, with a lot of excitement around the Aurora, the new Intrigue, etc. They had a parade of nearly every Oldsmobile model every made -- it was quite a show to see a rolling history of the brand, culminating with a number of Curved Dashes lumbering down E. Michigan Avenue. If you're in the Michigan area, a stop to the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum in Lansing is worth your time.
I have a 99 Aurora I keep as a spare car - no tags on it. It stays in the garage and gets driven once or twice a year. I just fired it up and drove it around the block for the 1st time since July of 2014. It fired right up and drove fine. The oil is 5 years old and the gas is probably 3 years old. I've always run 87 octane w/o problems. I'll sell it and my 94 Pontiac soon since I acquired a 2013 Dart that is everything I need.
This is a really nice car. Love the way they designed the boot, it looks almost Maserati like.
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