The 1st gen Aurora was fascinating to look at. To me, it really was the 1st modern “4-door coupe” ever built. And then the Mercedes CLS came out in 2005 and officialized that segment for good. But I do think the Aurora was the actual first.

@GreenHawkDrive

9 ай бұрын

Good point. Can’t say the same thing for the second generation. GM was like, “well, there goes that…”

@FabienTeulieres93

9 ай бұрын

@@GreenHawkDrive Yes indeed. The 2nd gen, while pleasant looking, wasn’t as sleek.

@Wolf4Babygirl

7 ай бұрын

Oldsmobile will always be synonymous with old people driving slow, no matter what they tried to do.

@sssp3071

7 ай бұрын

@@Wolf4Babygirl Yeah, I'm old and I remember all of those old people driving slow in their 1970 W--30 442s! ....and just completely forget the fact that the 1949 Oldsmobile Futuramic 88 is considered by most automotive historians to be the very first American muscle car. GEEEZE!

@colinschmitz8297

7 ай бұрын

I would say that the Chrysler LH sedans ( Intrepid, Vision, and Concorde were the first as they started in 93). Though the Aurora was quite beautiful.

That 3.8L 6 cylinder from GM was a great motor.

@82_KID

19 күн бұрын

3800 Series 1 💪💪they even had a Series 2 and 3.. just not sure how good the cars around them were.

Seville sts was such a gorgeous car!

@giancarlolugo9586

7 ай бұрын

If those came RWD with the 5.7 LS1 engine which was new at the time It could have been a hit

@YoungManDub

7 ай бұрын

​@@giancarlolugo9586STS-V of the 90's! I think Tim Allen tried to soup it up a bit... Could be mistaken

My C4 ZR-1 still can provide road-going thrills which puts a smile on my face everytime.

@davidkosach3095

6 ай бұрын

With the right lady in your car, she can put a smile on your face every time you drive, no matter what kind of car you are driving lol. However, all it takes is a short zipper trip and bam you both are there ! Yuk, Yuk, Yuk, whoob, whoob, whoob, whoob…….

@byrnc927

6 ай бұрын

@davidkosach3095 That sounds like a comment my brother would make.

The 3.0L in the "Maserati" was also a Caravan engine made by Mitsubishi

Park Avenue ultras are great to drive and very safe for a car with only a couple air bags

I loved the Aurora. Imperfect, but it was a beautiful car.

The Vector W8 was one third great supercar, one third pipe dream, and one third investment scam. As the company was much better at constantly getting new investors involved than setting up actual realistic production facilities.

@Pat-RickSmith

6 ай бұрын

Fun fact I met the original CEO of this company. At a Chicago auto show. We were so amazed by this car. All its claims etc . etc. And who knew a tennis player would be the guys down fall. Of the cars that were made and that were tested a lot was true . And a lot was not.

I have a 2006 Lincoln Town Car that I bought 9 years ago with 87,000 miles on it. It now has 381,000 miles on it and is still running great. A couple months ago I bought a like new one owner 2007 Lincoln Town Car with only 36,000 miles on it. I have owned a number of Lincolns, but not a single Cadillac. Lincolns are built better, last longer, and are more reliable than Cadillacs. The '03 and up Panther platform is an amazing design. And the 4.6L engine is probably the best American V8 ever built.

@GreenHawkDrive

7 ай бұрын

Good stuff man!

@CJColvin

7 ай бұрын

Awesome brother l, gotta love the almighty 4.6L SOHC 2V Modular V8 in the legendary Ford Panther Platform.

@slowstang88

7 ай бұрын

Panther chassis were real war horses. Cab companies regularly bought old police Crown Vics that had the guts stomped out of them and got another stomping by cabbies and still survived.

@stevenikazy2943

6 ай бұрын

Agree about the Town Cars (owned 2) but a problematic MKT sent me to Cadillac.

Great job mate. I'm 41 now and the aurora is still one of my dream cars. Truly an underrated diamond in the rough

@lare9710

5 ай бұрын

Second generation GM Engineer, when studying in Detroit at the Tech Ctr, the left over Auroras said in parking lots in 2001... Wish I had one stashed aways in dark metallic paint and dark leather interior. I had a 1990 Olds Touring Sedan in college... fully loaded and sports suspension..

The Viper will always be a car from my childhood that is amazing

@dontelindsey5846

7 ай бұрын

I remember being a kid and McDonald's had the monopoly pieces where you could possibly get a Viper. I was always so close yet never got that last monopoly piece. Haha.

You should definitely do more videos like this. And making them a little longer wouldn't be a problem either.

@GreenHawkDrive

7 ай бұрын

Definitely for the future man!

Old Aurora The first time I saw it it was like magic beautiful design car and it still is quite unbelievable such a creation came out of olds .. In a hundred years they managed to create something that gorgeous just like the old 442 only if it was engineered as beautifully as it was designed.. if they would have given it the legendary 3800 engine with the supercharger like the Buick ohh boy that would have been a True powerhouse!! For the the whole 90s!!

@GreenHawkDrive

7 ай бұрын

It’s crazy you say that because I agree. I was looking into buying one but man those northstars are absolute crap. should of had the 3.8!

@SP00TNIC

7 ай бұрын

@@GreenHawkDrive Well the thing about the NorthStar engine and the Olds is that it wasn't the same Northstar engine with the Rods popping out like Cadillacs lol isn't that something crazy?? cheaper than a Cadi but less issues 😉😁👍 (could be the REAL reason why GM killed it) This is what I heard about the olds Northstar engines, for Cadillac they wanted to refine / make it better the NorthStar engine And that's where the issue started instead of making it better than they made it and disaster lol but yes there were a few engines Olds Northstar engines that had issues very small percentage In the issues were very minor compared to the Cadillac absolute self obliviation engine.. I was just thinking about the 3800 and being supercharged because this combination in a Buick is not as strong because the music is super heavy and the olds was quite light and when you add this combination to a light car a 3,800 and supercharger going to be flying like a Rocket Even the obese Buick with a 3800 and supercharger was very fast I just imagine how much faster it would be if you reduce 600 lb or more 😉😉😁👍 compared to the North Star which wasn't even powerful.. it had good horsepower numbers but very tiny walnuts to make it sing

@BillLaBrie

7 ай бұрын

It was meant to be a Saturn. GM tried to use it at the last minute to save Olds.

@SP00TNIC

7 ай бұрын

@@BillLaBrie whatever it was meant to me.. We only know one fact and that is GM always drops the ball and continues.. You can make bets on that And always Win for sure 😉😉👍😁 That's why they are the brand with no b@llz and a very high pitch vocals aka Engines straight from the factory hahahaha

@CJColvin

7 ай бұрын

​@SP00TNIC I would only imagine what Oldsmobile be like today had the Aurora been a huge massive hit?

I bought a turbo Chrysler tc for $1200 bucks a few years ago and I really liked it. Everything worked fine inside and out and the seats were very comfortable. I did add a boost controller to get more power out of it.

@kazmeekjackson396

7 ай бұрын

I don’t

@kasparsgrinbergs6001

5 ай бұрын

TC by Maserati in good condition it costs $10,000-15,000.... in perfect it costs more

@shmiggz

5 ай бұрын

It is an awesome car. Especially with a T2 engine or the Maserati 16v head.

Pininfarina is the coach maker most famously known for designing the bodies of all the most desirable Ferraris from the 70s to just a few years ago including the Testarossa and the F40. Hence the price of the Allante.

@bradlemmond

6 ай бұрын

Also flying the bodies from Italy in special 747's to make _the longest assembly line in the world._ 🙄

The vector w8's owner/designer/engineer was also a space shuttle engineer and had used his connections to get some of the contractors for space shuttle parts to also make the intrument panel items and switches/on board computer flr the car. Turned out to be disasterous for his supply chain and production issues, as it was only really an ability securing overrun spare parts and qc reject parts. Didnt really think ahead.

The aurora will always hold a special memory too me, my older brothers took me to my first street race in one (Audubon edition) and it is one of the best sounding v8 in my opinion

I took the Lincoln towncar slight personally. There is nothing better than the Cartier towncar. Absolutely gorgeous

@sleep_sounds

6 ай бұрын

Town cars are possibly my favorite vehicles ever made. The video publisher obviously hasn't spent much time in one if he has nothing to say. Oh, btw guy that owns this channel, I have a blue and white 97 Viper GTS in my garage right now. That's how awesome Town Cars are.

@CsalbertCs

4 ай бұрын

Town Car's are one of the greatest cars of all time for sure. They have amazing reliability, it's tough like a pickup truck and you can see that toughness in it's little brother, the Crown Vic, and it was the only car to achieve 5 star safety rating in every rating. GM ended their big BOF, RWD boats in 96, the Panther's lasted till 2011. Parts are cheap and abundant, insurance is cheap, gas mileage isn't terrible, and it's just such a lovely comfortable car. I prefer the 95-97 model years, you could get fully red or green interiors, but a 2005+ in L configuration (6 inches more legroom) is my second favourite Town Car.

The "Ultra" really does live up to its name.

Great compilation. Keep up the great work. Cheers.

That picture of the green Park Avenue Ultra in the beginning of the video was taken by me. That was my 1993 Ultra. That body style was from 1991-1996...

It's interesting to see how nice the designs were, especially when in brand-new condition. So used to seen them beat-up and dirty on the road, and they just look like outdated sh*t boxes.

@GreenHawkDrive

9 ай бұрын

I agree man, 100%

@jobskinner833

9 ай бұрын

I remember them when they were new😂

Vector M12 deserved a spot too! It used a Lamborghini Diablo engine though, but it did cost $189,000 in 1995 which would be over 381,000 today

@defyyourlogic487

7 ай бұрын

Agreed and hey again lol

saw a glimpse of the cadillac catera, that sales flop was very expensive too!

@GreenHawkDrive

9 ай бұрын

Definitely was, good point

@don2deliver

9 ай бұрын

Rebadged Opel. Cost more than tbe Lumina Z34 and was slower, handled worse and not as durable.

@hylerj

7 ай бұрын

EYE a coca it's an I not an L

love all the info on all 10 cars!!

@GreenHawkDrive

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

awesome video man! keep up the good work

@GreenHawkDrive

9 ай бұрын

Appreciate it!

9:06 What I know this car from is thanks to Gran Turismo 2 back in 1999, driving it in a video game was fun and this was some serious machine, seeing it here on the list brings me back and gives me more education about the car🙏 appreciate the great video

I drove a Chrysler LeBaron convertible down Route 1, SF to LA, in the late 90's and it was something I will always remember, I never had the roof up at all. Terrific experience.

The second gen town car was amazing. There wasn’t a driveway in Beverly Hills that didn’t have one.

My friend daryl was a severe alcoholic with a Oldsmobile . He would drink until he passed at at the wheel with the engine idiling in park . Eventually the car would over heat and pass out also . I dont know how many times he did this but i would always say that is one tough car He was always able to get it started again until one day the car finally passed away .RIp Daryl and the Oldsmobile.

@GreenHawkDrive

7 ай бұрын

Good god, that was heavy man. May he rest in peace

Lee “eye-uh-KO-kuh” For the record. He’s an icon. The video is awesome regardless.

@GreenHawkDrive

2 ай бұрын

Thank you man!

@Maj0rB00thr0yd

28 күн бұрын

Correct on all points. The poop emoji is also an icon. It and Lee have some things in common.

love the content, good job! keep up the great work.

@GreenHawkDrive

5 ай бұрын

Appreciate it!

I am liking this Channel alot so far!

@GreenHawkDrive

6 ай бұрын

Thank you man!

Dude you make dope videos please stay incourged and keep up the great work!

@GreenHawkDrive

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much man, that means a lot!

Im so glad I found this channel ❤

@GreenHawkDrive

7 ай бұрын

Glad to hear that!

The car that always Intrigued me was the Oldsmobile Intrigue 😅, it featured a unique Northstar aka Shortstar engine that GM never used again in any other platform...

The only problem with my 99 Aurora was that it run fairly hot. I was always afraid of blowing up the engine.

as a high schooler my friends mom gave us a ride in her aurora i had no idea what it was but thought it was a cool smooth ride

I respect your Oldsmobile admiration. I was an Olds kids. When i was born my parents had a 1970 Cutlass Supreme ❤and drive an Oldsmobile powered vehicle (older Olds or Buick estate wagons) til around 1993. Their last was 1982 Oldsmobile 98 Regency Brougham. Its eas the pinnacle of Oldsmobile and my mom loved it. Then the sub craze hit. I'm still driving her 2001 Durango SLT Plus that was her last vehicle 😢 i had a remanufactured engine installed and it still looks great for being 22 years old. Look forward to seeing your next feature.

Its amazing how you never think about the progression of time itself until you see something like old commercials you saw as a kid...then you wonder where the years went.....and you get a little sad lol. I knew someone with a 95' Viper. He had to keep it garaged at all times because it didnt have windows on the doors. Those were add on options at the time.

You got cool cars and cool contests.. keep it coming 😎👍🏾🇵🇭

@GreenHawkDrive

7 ай бұрын

Thanks! Will do!

Subscribed!

Everytime I watch videos like this I picture Julian talking about his limited edition Monte Carlo SS.

Love these vids. The prices that you is that today’s price on the right?

@GreenHawkDrive

6 ай бұрын

Yes!

I work for AutoNation in the 90s and they paid me to drive vehicles back from one location to another and I saw two Oldsmobile Aurora with giant price tags on the windshield racing down the interstate of Atlanta it was a pretty intense too cuz they were not going slow

I remember the STS launching here in the UK. It was a sales disaster. Cadillac left the market almost as soon as it entered.

I've never understood why American car companies try to recoup all of their development costs of a new model out of the first couple of years. That practice results in lots of great cars coming out that very few people can afford, and then the model is discontinued quickly because no one's buying them.

We had a 1999 DeVille Concours, which became the DTS in 2000. Northstar H.O. - Excellent engine. Best marriage of an engine and transmission I've driven. I've heard what the squalk was on those engines. I never experienced it and we put well over 100,000 on it. The only reason I can think there was squalk was so many Lexus, Infiniti, Lincoln, Chrysler, Mercedes and BMW owners were left crying road-side when a Cadillac passed them and left them in the dust as I so often did. I even let my Cadillac feed on a couple Porche's! ( for a snack )

1:27 it's hard to believe sometimes but these cars were new at one point! Lol I saw a Dodge Aries the other day!

3:40 Rode in one of these Fleetwoods, when I was about 10 years old It legit felt like riding on a cloud ☁️

I’m definitely looking for the first gen Aurora because it’s beautiful

@GreenHawkDrive

6 ай бұрын

I was too but a lot of people told me that the engine in them isn’t the best

@djoldsoulkid3407

6 ай бұрын

@@GreenHawkDrive yeah I hear that too but it’s not really a North Star engine Oldsmobile changed things in it so it didn’t have the typical problems

My new fav car channel maybe cause 🎉

Great cars

Viper GTS was always my dream car… saved my whole life to get one.

Great job man!!! How old are you?

That yellow zr1 is one of my favorite cars ever

The problem with American domestic makers, is that in recent years they started blindly following foreign car cultures which was a big mistake that costed them dearly, instead they should have focused enhancing their own domestic culture without changing the core of it, evidence that supports my statement is that today cars that follow the traditional American car culture are highly sought after in the market unlike the foreign versions, although some are nice of the foreign too but they just don't match the American culture car feeling honestly. Thanks for reading Chosen undead 5009

@CJColvin

7 ай бұрын

I totally agree 100% brother

@acekoala457

7 ай бұрын

The EPA choked out whatever car culture we could ever have.

@chosenundead5009

6 ай бұрын

@@CJColvin Thanks sir

@chosenundead5009

6 ай бұрын

@@acekoala457 Yes, especially the cars of 1970.

@CJColvin

6 ай бұрын

@@chosenundead5009 You're welcome brother.

I had a park avenue ultra. God I miss that car.

You made the Town Car sound like nothing special yet is the most reliable and the only one you still see the most today running.

I’m a number one Aurora fan🔥🔥🔥

As a broke college student driving a 1992 Park Avenue Ultra in 2008, I can assure you that it pulled no chicks. I knew I was doomed when my mother told me how much she like it. The gen 1 3800 supercharger was asthmatic. I did have a 97 Riviera with the gen 3800 supercharged engine. That thing was an utter freak on the interstate. Major bottom end torque with 4 very tall gears. Thing would cruise at 90 barely breaking 2500 rpm

I loved my Aurora so freaking much.

"other cars were becoming front wheel drive" **Shows Catera** 🤦‍♂️

@GreenHawkDrive

7 ай бұрын

I genuinely thought it was front wheel, i was wrong😅

Truly remarkable, every single car low and wide and with oval wheels. Most other cars had round ones.

Its cadillac bro-ham, thats how it sounds. Great video

Lincoln Town Car was a family highway road warrior car and comfortable while being one.

I would drive a 1998 Ford Taurus with the front bench seats.

Great video you should do a video all about Oldsmobile.

@GreenHawkDrive

7 ай бұрын

Thank you man! Possibly in the future

When I was a teenager a customer we had got a Vector. It was and is the craziest car I've ever seen not in some show or auction. The guy waited years for the thing had it some special yellow paint with ostrich leather seats. The interior was so weird and nothing where you'd expect it

4:14 Nice Opel Omega!

There's an entire generation of kids like myelf who only know about Vector because their cars were beastly in Gran Torisimo 2. My dream car for like 10 years was a Vector W8 Twin Turbo just because I had a fully modded out one in that game that was unbeatable, and then I found out that the game devs based them off the hype instead of the underwhelming reality

Nice video

@GreenHawkDrive

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Paul Harvey used to rout the Buick Park Avenue Ultra as less expensive than the cheapest car in America, a Hyundai because the insurance, repairs and maintenance costs were so drastically different

2:51 Man the flashbacks I get looking at this thing...

I liked that Lincoln Continental, It was a great car!

I love my 1996 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham.

Great video good luck with college.

@GreenHawkDrive

9 ай бұрын

Appreciate it man!

Hope you have an incredible experience in college! I’m older than you and I’d never heard of the Vector either.

@GreenHawkDrive

7 ай бұрын

I appreciate that man, thank you!

I woulda put the fleetwood in A tier, but other than that, yes i agree! Also calling GM a cockroach is so accurate lmao they could have put a 5 speed manual or something in that bad boy for more fun!

@joshcrd7925

5 ай бұрын

Im guessing the only trans they had at the time that cold handle the torque was a turbo 400, other than the heavy duty 4 speeds with low gear from the 3/4 and 1 ton trucks. In 90 I think corvettes were still running 4 speeds I believe. Besides, not really GM's fault. Vector could have sourced a trans anywhere, but they took what GM offered

Ha!!! I laughed out at the Buick passing the Mercedes….

I'm Really a huge fan of the 80's boxy look, but I sooo fell out of love with Ford's 1998 rounding-off design of its Town Car, Grand Marquis, & Crown Vic.😦

@RedfishCarolina

7 ай бұрын

The Taurus and Contours were horridly ugly. They looked like biological engineering disasters to me.

@landonbenford8369

7 ай бұрын

The 3rd generation Taurus/Mercury Sable was just too much. And the 4th was just boring. And I agree, the last gen Tempo/Topaz were way better looking than their Contour/Mystique replacements.

@larrysutton925

Күн бұрын

Yep those were some ugly rides

@landonbenford8369

Күн бұрын

@@larrysutton925 ...Although I would buy a Ford Five Hundred. Or a Freestyle/Taurus X station wagon. My neighbors like theirs.

I love my Cadillac SLS and I want a aurora and a zr1

Cadillac allante is STILL A BEAUTIFUL CAR when kept up it still turned heads with that body style but I have a 92 which had been GOOD 2 ME😊

Enjoy college - within safety, try not to say ‘no’ to any experience offered to you. Live it!

The Oldsmobile brand was confusing within Gms brands of hierarchy.

@Andrew-bb3lc

6 ай бұрын

It’s not that hard to understand. Back in the day, GM said they made a vehicle for every purse and purpose. -Chevrolet was the entry level “bread & butter” division -Pontiac was the performance division -Oldsmobile was the technology division -Buick was the entry level luxury division -Cadillac was the upper level luxury division

My girlfriend’s mom had an Aurora in the late 90’s. It was pretty quick.

The NorthStar motor was a junk motor when it had problems, they would literally tell you it would be cheaper to get another car rather than fix it.

Vector also had a 12 Cylinder version.

Isn't the Vector's 3 speed transmission the same one Leno used in his 1000 hp Coronado build? People act like that the 3 speed is junk because it only has 3 speeds, but I'm thinking it was used because it was the only transverse transmission that could handle the power of the Vector.

@RedfishCarolina

7 ай бұрын

I think you're right. And, if the engine has a good balance between low end torque and high rpm, a 3 speed trans is just fine.

chrysler TC v6 engine was a plain mitsubishi 6g72 12 valves sohc also found in caravan le baron and a few other K car derived

Top 3: TC by Maserati, Allante and Aurora👌

6:54 now u see right here is where RockStar For grand theft Auto starting to use the taillights off real life cars Those looks like it belongs to the (primo)

1987 Callaway Corvette Twin Turbo, 249 MPH Top speed

We didn't know these cars existed or I would have ordered 1996 Impala ss in dark green grey metallic. Trip out you could only get car in grey interior.

I want to motivate you to continue making great content

@GreenHawkDrive

7 ай бұрын

Thank you man!

Fleetwood is a great car. I had 2. But the electronics will start glitching out and I had to solder a mod into the computer. It’s a mess

Wow no Buick Riveria.. 😊.?

The Viper was a brute. A real driver's car. The Vector W8 is absoloutely stunning in person. There's a red one in the city I live in. The Corvette ZR-1's engine shares nothing with the base model and Z-51's LT1 350. It's a dual-overhead cam V8. I drove several of 'em working at a Chevy dealership in the body shop.

In the hood we called the Caddy Brougham "Bro-ham".

The Christmas thr TC came out it was in I.Magnins Christmas wish book