Thursday, June 14, 2012

Junkyard Find: 1996 Oldsmobile Aurora

With a 250-horse 4-liter version of Cadillac's Northstar V8 and lines that owed nothing to the nonagenarian-aimed designs of a decade earlier, the Aurora seemed poised to revive the nose-diving fortunes of the oldest of GM's divisions. That didn't quite happen, and Oldsmobile— no doubt doomed by the first three letters of the marque's name— was sent before The General's Death Panel before another decade had passed. Where have all the Auroras gone? Here's one that I found at a Denver wrecking yard earlier this week.
With no Oldsmobile emblems anywhere on the car's exterior, you had to look at the small print on the engine cover to find any mention of Ransom E. Olds' 19th-century creation.
Like its Quad 4 stablemate, the Aurora V8 made better than one horsepower per cubic inch. The car was respectably quick. In fact, an Aurora seemed so suspiciously cheaty that it earned the People's Curse at the very first 24 Hours of LeMons race in 2006.
The '96 Aurora listed at $34,360, just over 50 grand in today's dollars. The BMW 525i cost about $1000 more and had 35 fewer horsepower, but buyer demographics were very much not on Oldsmobile's side in that matchup.

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from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com




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