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1992 Olds 88 (Reaction) Motorweek Retro Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ค. 2022
- 1992 Olds 88 Motorweek Retro review reaction video.
A good solid if uninspiring car, the 88 neatly personifies much of what was wrong with GM at the time.
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My aunt had a '94 Olds 88 LSS. Really great reliable car for the majority of its life. With the LSS you got the sport suspension and all the options. Had some impressive tech for '94 with dual zone HVAC and the great 80s/90s GM trip computer, nice stereo, and of course the venerable 3800. Had some electrical gremlins as it got older and the interior started disintegrating. The paint and interior didnt hold up nearly as well as my '90 Ninety Eight (both cars were in the family at the same time in the early 2010s) and as time went on the Ninety Eight turned out to be the more reliable vehicle for whatever reason. I thought the front end looked better after the refresh, this initial grille didnt do it for me. Great video as always Jon! I can't believe this video doesn't have more views! I guess us Olds fans are far and few between 😅.
P.s. if i remember right, the dash in the '94 was FAR different than the one featured in this '92. I recall the radio being lower with HVAC controls right above it, with a less angular design. I dont know if that was becauwe hers was the uplevel LSS or maybe GM realized that this dash wasnt doing it and redesigned it within a few years of launch.
I recall looking at this car on the dealer lot in the early 1990s. At the time I had an '89 Cutlass (the rounded newly designed one - good car by the way - though a sales flop of sorts) and I was scouting my next new car. I came across this Olds Eight Eight and remember thinking "this is what Oldsmobile WANTS me to think my next car should be - but man, it's dowdy-looking and I don't think I like it". When time came to get a new car, I got a '92 Accord. Didn't have near the bells and whistles of the Oldsmobiles but I suspect I was like millions of others who ditched Olds for Honda in the early 90s and never looked back.
My Dad after he retired bought one of these used from one of my Moms brothers. It was dark green with the beige interior. It was a great car to drive. We took a trip together with my parents in it and it had excellent luggage room and the interior was very comfortable.
Thank you again for another great video.
Thanks!
Grew up on these H/C bodies. They were never perfect and I never really enjoyed driving them. In retrospect I kind of miss them. Always reliable, easy to service, reasonable to fix. I will give GM credit, these cars never left any one of my family stranded (yeah they broke down sometimes but they always were able to limp home). That's saying a lot. None of my car from the last 15 years have been able to do that.
Ive been in this car a lot during my middle school days since my best friends parents had this car. I never cared for it. This car is exactly the stereotype of Americans cars in the 90s, big floaty cars with cheap interiors. I never understood why it was so big, w big panel gaps. the car felt cheaply built and yet the interior and trunk were not really that big considering the exterior size. And for some reason it also felt claustrophobic.
the new 92 Camry was a much better and cheaper car. It was much smaller outside but interior space wasn’t that much smaller. It was so refined and the ergonomics were top notch. I always wondered why anyone would buy the olds over the Camry.
Those who wanted a classic highway cruiser with a feeling of Oldsmobiles of old and an American vehicle would select this car. For those looking for a six seater, the Camry wouldn't fit the bill under any configuration, unlike the Eighty-Eight.
I saw a lot of those on the road, and still see some today.
Great review ! I remember these back in the 80s and 90s, they were fairly reliable and comfortable .I own the RWD version of the Oldsmobile 88 and it's like a time capsule driving it .
Thanks, and that's just cool now. :)
Seems like an okay car. I think if Uber existed in the 90's, this would be a good candidate for it. I've never seen a sedan with rear climate vents in 1992.
I had a 1992 Oldsmobile 88 Royale, I loved that car! Wish I still had it, that standard 3.8 was a great engine!
I enjoyed the MotorWeek review of this car. I made sure to fast forward through your comments. These are very nice cars. There was nothing "wrong" with them. It's the cars that came before this that had far more issues than these.
Oldsmobile did have some interesting vehicles in their last 20 years. The Bravada was a great SUV. It wasn't off-road capable but was the first affordable luxury SUV. I would love to have one. Be that as it may, Oldsmobile did end up losing its identity. Buick was better suited to be the near-luxury brand just below Cadillac. Oldsmobile would have been better off if it was made into a brand for selling their European vehicles here. Anyway, the Eighty-Eight was better with the Series 2 3800 V6(205hp normally aspirated, 240hp supercharged).
It's become fashionable on TH-cam to beat up on the GM of yore, but there's no denying they put out a lot of cars that met a distinct age group/market. Think about it, in 1992 most of our WWII - era dads, uncles and granddads would've been in their late 60s and 70s and they grew up owning Ford and GM. These were their cars. And in 1992, the mainstream Japanese brands, while known to be reliable were still coming into their own in the US, and many of the less-sophisticated buyers still didn't know THAT much about them. I'd argue that 1990-92 was kind of the turning point for the US market's acceptance of the mainstream Japanese brands, and the decline of legacy GM brands like Olds.
I've always had a soft place in my heart for Oldsmobiles... especially Cutlasses,442s and Hurst Oldses....
My in-laws owned a ‘90 88 Royale. Great car that lasted nearly 240k miles.
For that reason I have a soft spot for the previous ‘86-‘91 generation.
I've done a handful of Olds kits-(1.AMT 64 Cutlass Convertible,2.AMT 64 442, 3.lindberg 67 442 W30,4.Revell 83 Hurst Olds and 5.Revell 85 442)...
Seat shaped seat controls are owned by Mercedes. Whenever you see them on another car they’re there under license.
A digital gauge cluster would have been cool in this
It was offered. There is a video on You Tube with one.
Respectable Quarter mile times for the period...
I've never understood why GM went so hard towards front wheel drive in the early 80's. I know it was in response to the 2 fuel crises and CAFE requirements, but it led GM to completely redesign a majority of their models all at once. This is what led to their horrible reliability in the 80's. I can't help but shake the feeling that if they had simply downsized the vehicles with smaller more fuel efficient engines, but stayed rear wheel drive, they would have built much better cars that were still able to meet CAFE fuel economy requirements.
I know what you're saying, but I'd disagree on 2 points. First, their reliability/quality was poor on older rear-wheel drive cars in the 70s, and even those in the 80s that hadn't been downsized and made FWD were's terribly well put togther. That's not even taking into account interior styling or materials quality. So I think the reliability was more of a management/manufacturing issue than an engineering one.
The second thing I'd say is GM was by the 80s suffering from being behind the times anyway. Slow adoption of fuel injection, overhead cams, and multi-speed transmissions led many buyers to look at imports as being more cutting edge. A slower adoption of fwd would have only increased this.
Also remember Toyota switched from RWD to FWD basically in one (car) generation and their quality improved.
@@AllCarswithJon good points, thanks for giving your thoughts
They could have downsized their RWD cars and kept them RWD. It was doable. They simply took the cheap way out. This was one of the reasons GM started going downhill.
It just so happens I'm building the 1/25 scale AMT 69 Hurst Olds Model kit... It's in paint ...
Cool!
I wonder how this goes over bridges or works in water...
Those rims are hideous
I really like your channel, but this was set up to be nothing more than a hatchet job of the car. For its day, this was a fine car, and I'd still drive one today.