Last Oldsmobile - April 29th, 2004

Ceremony acknowledging the final Oldsmobile manufactured, an Alero, as it rolls off the assembly line.

[@paulhenderson6128]

It's amazing they have the same band from when they built the first Oldsmobile

[@gabriel.954]

OMG I laughed so hard ... thanks

[@dullaverage1667]

The are playing that toe tapper… “IN MY MERRY OLDSMOBILE”

[@dekelanson5280]

😂😂

[@thebestisyettocome4114]

A day no one wanted. Oldsmobile was just a outstanding brand. GM made a major mistake to drop the brand. Thank you.

[@minivanmaster]

I'll miss my Oldsmobile. Owner of an Alero for 9 years. Such joy. Great memories. Would love to own a final 500

[@7584Vincent]

BROKEN THROUGH AN ACCIDENT

[@minivanmaster]

@@7584Vincent Yeah, the engine was fantastic, got up to 179,000 miles and the car still reached 24 mpg combined

[@7584Vincent]

@@minivanmaster Indeed ! I have the same car in Europe. 74,000 miles.

[@minivanmaster]

@@fenrislegacy I saw that. So heartbreaking. Surely at least half of them are either rusted or rotting in a junkyard

[@automotivemachinerytechnic412]

I have a 2.2l ecotec engine and it sounds just beautiful

[@Mark-zu6oz]

I miss Olds. Growing up my parents had a '63 Delta 88. Later on a '73 Cutlass Supreme, which I did get to drive. For my first new car I bought an '86 Cutlass Supreme (V8). Loved that car. Had it for 11 years. By the time I needed to replace it Olds only had 2 models and I saw the writing on the wall, so that was my only Olds.

[@J_ACE_N]

I currently own and drive my 04 alero every day! It has been my favorite car and I'm going to cherish it for as long as I have it. Best car I've ever own just rolled over 141000 miles and run beautiful.

[@jeffjackson9679]

I'm pushing 50 and have owned many cars over the years, and my favorite to this day was a 1994 Cutlass Supreme Convertible with the DOHC 3.4 V6. Car was both comfortable and quick (for the time). Had the most comfortable leather seats on any car I've ever owned.

[@Juscuzautollc]

I have a 1995 3.4 cutlass convertible for sale

[@ms90sbabyy]

That was my first car

[@Carguy-sp8xj]

I used to have a 93 convertible that was my mothers. It was a executive car when she bought it and had it as her daily until 2000 when she bought a Pontiac bonneville SSEI with the supercharger. The cutlass was put away in our garage for 14 years because the alternator went out on it and didn’t want anyone but my dad to work on it but unfortunately he was too sick and passed away in 2007 from lung cancer. When I turned 14 I got the car out for my moms 50th birthday. I got it running, cleaned out the fuel tank, did a complete tune up on it, and I polished and waxed it and had it out in the yard with the top down so she could see it when she got home from work. She loved it so much she gave me the keys to the car and I drove it as my summer car until I turned 19. I took it to car shows all around Michigan and it actually won trophies for best paint and best original car. Unfortunately I had to sell it because I couldn’t keep up with the payments on it but it went off to a really good home. A lady who worked for Oldsmobile bought it and we still talk to this day and she said I can buy it back anytime I want but I’m not going to. Someone else deserves to have a nice car other than me.

[@Marc816]

Over the years, I have owned 88s, Cutlasses, 442s and an Aurora. All excellent cars. GM didn't know a good thing when it saw it!!!!!!!

[@marcd2936]

I have a 2000 Alero V6 in arctic white. It's my daily driver and works great.

[@robertpeck6916]

I worked at Fisher Body at this time, actually had my hands on this car in the paint shop, was a great place to work, alot of good memories!!

[@sydspoak6754]

I leased an Alero towards the end of Olds, and it was a nice, solid car. But my true love is the G-body era, meaning '81-'87 Cutlass. I've owned 6 of them over the years, and no other car feels quite like them on the road, in my opinion. I have two still now...one is an '87 that we drive in the summer, and the other is an '82 from Virginia (I'm in PA) that is in the garage as a project car. We also found an Olds 350 engine from 68-71 that will hopefully some day get married up with the '82. Supposedly it has Rocket heads on it!

[@Jerry-ok8gj]

Every Pontiac I owned burned up. Oldsmobile never gave me a problem.

[@codycrawford2385]

I had a Alero just like the last one made, it was a 04 GLS, it was a great car I loved it, mine had a Plaque on the center console

[@pinball541]

I am sure you owned one of the last 500! I lost my white 04 Alero GLS with almost 200K miles. I miss that car, it's sibling is still with me. It is a white 08 Pontiac G8 with only 65K miles on the clock. Great cars! Hello from Phoenix Arizona!🔥

[@codycrawford2385]

@@pinball541 mine wasn’t the finale 500, mine was similar I thought it was that’s why I got it then found out it wasn’t

[@musicmoviesandgames2004]

Wow. I was only 13 days old when this happened. I least I was around back then lol

[@ryana3298]

I’m 23 and I still have my first car 1989 Oldsmobile cutlass supreme SL with the 2.8 v6. I absolutely love it and probably will have it forever.

[@americantadpole7162]

I’m 21, i have the exact same model but it’s 1997, the last model year. First car at 16

[@CT_Taylor]

My first car was a 1990 88 with 3.8.im 25

[@garbage854]

Oldsmobiles are awesome 😀

[@Midnight_Wave_1989]

When I was really young, I remember my family had a dark blue Oldsmobile Alero sedan, and it was our family car for about 5 years until we got into a pretty bad car accident in it. That car held up really well and was a tough car because after we got into the accident, we had it repaired and gave it to my grandma. She drove the car for about 10 years after that until she finally got rid of it. Haven’t seen that car since I was like 6. I’m now 17 and later on when I became a huge car enthusiast I found out that my parents had been driving Oldsmobiles for 20 years. My favorite Oldsmobile will always be the 442 and Cutlass. RIP Oldsmobile and Pontiac. Two of the greatest GM divisions in history.

[@BKFB1957]

R.I.P. Oldsmobile 1897-2004

[@SuperBigswede]

Because GM said that it was bether to invest in other brands, like Saturn.. And we know how that went..

[@realanti-jewish8154]

JEWs

[@fredaydaybae8450]

Completely SAD! The decision to invest in those trashy brands is what killed Olds. I’ll NEVER own another GM for that reason.

[@Rick88843]

Oldsmobile, gone, Saturn, gone, Pontiac, gone, Saab, sold, hummer, gone

[@Rick88843]

oldsmobuick

[@hemal8569]

@@Rick88843 hummer is back 😅

[@LSnium]

Who owns that car now is the biggest question.

[@MagicMoon2]

She said that it will be in some Ransom E. Olds display but it has been at the new york auction and now I think it is on the road.

[@AndroidSunner]

It was in a Museum up until 2017, afterwards it Sold and I'm not sure if it was the same one, but a Similar one popped up on Autotrader a few months for $24k

[@sofadviolator]

Wonder how many of these big wigs lost their jobs?

[@erikaandrews4648]

I miss mine. It had quirks but it was a nice car for being made by GM. I cried when I took the plates off.

[@bigneutron77]

These people sure are happy at a funeral

[@Myaurora2001]

Yeah, cause those are Olds employees, they had a good life, was paid the best of GM divisions and Lansing was always the benchmark for GM.

[@audieconrad8995]

With all due respect, once GM went homogeneous the last real Oldsmobiles were way before 2004. Pontiac, Oldsmobile and SAAB. GM should consider itself very lucky that it even still exists...

[@juanpabloarena2724]

It is not possible to describe with common words what a car company generates in terms of fanaticism, but yes, that fanaticism crosses borders. Greetings from Argentina ✨

[@leeannfrohn88]

Still my dream car!

[@saganich74]

Pathetic end to a great car division

[@GiordanDiodato]

could have been worse could have been a Bravada

[@7584Vincent]

BROKEN THROUGH AN ACCIDENT

[@fredaydaybae8450]

@@GiordanDiodato Bravada was FANTASTIC! WtF are you talking about?! Could’ve been a Rainer would be more appropriate SIR!!! Or Ma’am!

[@Rick88843]

It was expanded into Buick

[@440_SIXPACK]

@@fredaydaybae8450just a Chevy blazer

[@chriswright8464]

Had a 2001 Oldsmobile Intrigue, GREAT CAR.

[@PontiacFan68]

who is watching this now when we have a crisis

[@PontiacFan68]

@@cjones3710 man it was sad when GM killed good Olds brand then go bankrupt soonly after Pontiac is depressingly gone I wish we still made GTOs. Firebirds, Bonnevilles, Grand Villes, and Fiero's again along side with 88s, 98s, and that Cutlass family again man I miss the old GM and old Ford when they had Mercury.

[@PontiacFan68]

I miss the American auto indusrty now we got Bullshit apple and that we have rotten kids waisting their lives away on tik tok because of lazy ass parents youtube themselves have gone shit too.

[@PontiacFan68]

@@cjones3710 America industry is gone and it will never comeback I dont see it comeback no matter what party is in controll. Its not like are next door neibor Canada is doing any better either. Our economy is plunging and keeps on plunging Seattle is a wreck same along with all other cities and are manufacturing indusrty is gone because people are bloody fucking lazy ass shit and use the union for defence so they can be even more lazy ass shits. 😡😠

[@cjones3710]

@@PontiacFan68 Yes, seeing the GM plant close here in Baltimore was sad. I also am sad seeing all these foreign cars all over the road.

[@cjones3710]

@@PontiacFan68 My Pop Pop worked at Bethlehem Steel in Baltimore, they closed in 2012 as RG steel. They tore it down a couple years ago. Seeing Dundalk , and residents fall into drug use make me sad. Nowhere to work anymore...

[@elmarko9051]

Olds was supposed to be just below Caddy, in fact they tested out a lot of the tech found on Caddy's on Olds first (dimming external mirrors, for example). However Olds had to sell boats (88,98). But they were the GM division that had to appeal to potential BMW/Mercedes/Audi buyers, hence the Intrigue and Aurora. The DOHC LX5 (baby North Star) was used by no other division, where Pontiacs and Buicks had pushrod 3800's. Olds was also a me-too division, as they got rebadged minivans and compacts (Aleros). I have 2 Oldsmobiles currently - a 2003 Silhouette, and a 1998 88 Regency. Each has features different enough from other GM's, but not enough to differentiate them to customers. GM really had to pare down, and identity-crisis Olds was a pretty obvious choice.

[@JCT442]

Lieftime Olds owner including the original owner of an '87 442 I still own. I agree with you as it was a shame what the heads in Lansing did to Olds... GM quality wasn't that great leading up to Olds' end which didn't help either. I owned a new '93 Cutlass which was an expensive piece of crap as I sold it after three trouble-filled years, while keeping the '87 442 which is the best car I've ever owned.

[@brianwilson6403]

@Justin Trabocco It wasn't the "heads" in Lansing by that time. By then all control came from the 14th floor.

[@wilbertvanwolferen5148]

I bought a ‘99 Alero last week and loving it!

[@howtobebasic2122]

yesterday April 29th, 2024, marked 20 years since the last Oldsmobile was built.

[@sunnyMadonna]

For those people said that Alero was a peace of grab you have no idea what your talking about i have one of the final Alero. And still do its all orginal all stock. Its like brand new still never get rid of it

[@J_ACE_N]

Amen! I love my 04 alero, hardly any rust (I live in maine) runs great for the year and the miles (141000) definitely a heavy car and holds right to the road.

[@TexasMan77]

Hmmm Olds changed the symbol from the rocket, but there it is on the podium. Hmmm..

[@realanti-jewish8154]

Bring Back Oldsmobile

[@PontiacFan68]

sadly it will never happens because of GMs financial trouble and teaming up with CHINA SH!T

[@knowbodiesfull5768]

I don't see that happening. Keep it buried. Now Oldsmobile is in the automotive heavens, along with Hudson, Nash, Packard, Studebaker, DeSoto, Plymouth - and too many others for me to list. After Olds went away, we watched Pontiac, Saturn, and Mercury fade away. Those memories will never go away. _(10/22/2023)_

[@Jordi7174]

Oldsmobile was mismanaged. It was supposed to be a step above the youth oriented Pontiac division but a step below the family oriented, semi luxury division of Buick. It should've been designed and marketed as the highbrow, chic and euro styled division with a technology edge to it. But in the end the powers that be were to scared to alienate their loyal base of older customers. And as its customers gave way to natural causes, Oldsmobile died its own automotive death.

[@johncornell3665]

Oldsmobile stood for quality. It was a shame that they shut down such a fine brand.

[@joshtumblin5893]

So sad that the alero was the car chosen to represent Oldsmobile. Where is a comfy 98 when ya need one?? No wonder they went under!

[@paulcorreggio4925]

How bout a 442?? They should have made a few last 442's.

[@La-yt1wr]

I’m surprised they didn’t represent the Aurora

[@ajanderson2787]

The 88 & Achieva were great also.

[@erikaandrews4648]

I had an alero gls with beautiful leather seats and fold down seats in the back. It was a good little car.

[@stassibonassi7373]

I wish they would bring the name back 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@Couchflyer-NY]

UAW local 652 rep. Al Cooper worked there for 58 years. Think about that for a moment.

[@stevenj9970]

Such a shame. My family was an olds family for DECADES…every family had their own fav car maker….

[@ddub9696]

03:10: They were using a lecturn with an Oldsmobile logo that, at that point, had been out of use for 8 years. This says a lot about GM during those days, unfortunately. Anyone know where was this filmed? The MC mentions a "great American city" but she doesn't say which one.

[@Lonny_the_car_colector_]

Goodbye Oldsmobile 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@BKofficer23]

I think they did a good job with this event.

[@francopetre6171]

When Sara Palin worked for Oldsmobile...

[@RoundenBrown]

XD

[@edevanko160]

Look how far has GM fallen miss my Olds and Pontiac

[@incompetentdiplomat3716]

well, oldsmobile was a wonderful car company, but its part of the market has shrank and gone, just like how desoto, Imperial, Mercury, and Continental, the world changes but the memories will never die.

[@georgekostician3229]

Wish I can find a video like for the Pontiac brand

[@fredaydaybae8450]

Why?! Pontiac was trash compared to the technology division, Olds. And I own a 97 Trans Am

[@georgekostician3229]

@@fredaydaybae8450 because I love Pontiac they had some nice cars out like the trans am and the 6000 (STE) Grand Prix Fiero 85-91 grand am and etc........ I love the cutlass ciera and Chevrolet celebrity and the Buick century the whole A-body line up from every division was a good car that’s all me and my brother buy are GM A-BODIES

[@fredaydaybae8450]

@@georgekostician3229 I agree with ya there. I had a 91 SSE Bonneville that was AWESOME! Also loved the GP STE Turbo and the GTP coupe. Wonder what happened to all the Pontiac dealer vids like this?!

[@Kevin-mj4if]

Me too, unfortunately they didn’t do anything for the last pontiac produced, it was just a white G6

[@pinball541]

@@Kevin-mj4if- The last Pontiac built was a white 2010 G6. It went out with no fanfare, & was the completion of a fleet order.

[@T-Rex-nm1se]

It sucks gm killed off such an iconic car manufacturer. Oldsmobile needs to make a comeback. Same with Pontiac. I wish gm killed off Buick instead so they could save Pontiac and Oldsmobile, why would you need 2 luxury car brands? You already have Cadillac

[@Gaspipenicklioni]

Olds was the test vehicle division, their first ohv v8 came in 1949.

[@Gaspipenicklioni]

I had 1980 cutlass diesel, put in a 455 olds, indestructible car, handled like a vett. Miss it bad.

[@mikeperry6794]

Biggest mistake GM ever made.

[@sydspoak6754]

The soccer moms...and Buick... won out instead, unfortunately. And Buick SUVs and Nissan SUVs and Toyota SUVs and Chevy SUVs... all look the same.

[@weegeemike]

Killing Olds and Pontiac were 2 huge mistakes. GM has never been as powerful or successful since.

[@mcqueenfanman]

It aint an Olds if it doesn't have the Olds V8. Olds was a sales leader from the 60s through the mid 80s. They sold so many Cutlasses in the mid to late 70s they had to put in Chevy engines to keep up.

[@La-yt1wr]

I didn’t know much about Oldsmobile until I found out that my mother had the OG Aurora with the V8. Nowadays after looking at its design it was definitely revolutionary for the brand, it also gave me GM EV1 vibes especially the exterior design.

[@juanpabloarena2724]

The very unfortunate end of a longed-for era...

[@weegeemike]

I miss my 1990 Olds Ninety Eight. Drove it for many years and finally gave it to a friend after it kept randomly stalling on me and no mechanic could figure it out....ran perfect until it would just turn off then take 30 min for it to start again. He called me a week later and told me it was a $40 coolant temp sensor, the old one malfunctioned and thought the motor was overheating and would turn the motor off to "save it". He sold it a year later for $2500. Big mistake. Dumb mechanics didn't want to work on it and gave up on it. Needless to say I never went to any of those mechanics again.

[@johncarney2883]

I wonder if they will have this fanfare when they close the last US assembly plant...so sad.

[@Rico_MLG]

Who still watching in 2022 💔

[@549BR]

The band members look like your classic Olds buyers and owners. It's over.😎

[@jhaeck1]

shoulda kept the olds brand..

[@shanke300]

Sad demise of an American ingenuity.

[@TexasMan77]

Is this Lansing Michigan?

[@revive0the0alive]

Yeah🙂

[@allenkranawetter9482]

It is the last Oldsmobile in the museum or in private hands ?

[@thirty3na3rd]

Not sure. I just had a copy of the video and posted it for others to watch.

[@kriche74]

It was in a museum until 2017. Then a dealer bought it.

[@it1988a]

Is that the same band from Mayberry?

[@Fifthcell]

The last car was an Alero? Pathetic end

[@cindylawrence1515]

What an American tragedy.....curses on the bums in government, the financial sector, NGO Policy creation circles and GM "management" for destroying one of the few really constant features of American automotive life over the last CENTURY. The oldest brand name. Explain to me what "smart" foreign venture or far less likely, what hair brained new domestic "product was worth the loss of this American Icon....

[@JamesKarne]

I wish Americans should go back to a sedan than crossover and SUV is ugly. I want a wagon station to return and better save gas economy than SUV and truck.

[@Zipster90]

They should have killed off Buick instead.

[@evelynortega4012]

😢

[@Rick88843]

they expanded it into Buick

[@speederz1]

GM was dumb dropping Olds and pontiac,i use to bring your heating and air cond from Delphi in Lockport NY

[@fludeball]

2004?! Those women with their shirts tucked in their pants look like they came out of 1982.

[@thirty3na3rd]

That was seriously the attire one was expected to wear in that culture. The early 80s was the last hurrah of devil may care corporate America.

[@Gaspipenicklioni]

80s ladies

[@quantum6277]

April 29 2004 is my birthday

[@majorpayne5289]

Sorry ass GM. Horrible decision in shutting down the Oldsmobile. Nowadays we have crappy little cars that look the same. No soul. What the hell GM? Bring them back! Same w/ Pontiac!

[@jeremiahlewis9296]

General Motors didn’t get enough money of Oldsmobile so they have to discontinuing iy

[@Wargasm54]

That was 2004?? Looks like 1994🤣

[@lavykhurana]

man such an old brand and they cut it off.

[@fredaydaybae8450]

Is that SERIOUSLY the best band they could get?! I love Olds but that band was even more dead than the brand was at the end of the line. Such a sad ending that Gm decided to invest in Saturn, Saab🤮, and Hummer in lieu of Olds. Horrible product planners

[@sydspoak6754]

Yeah LOL, somehow I don't think Quiet Riot would have been a good match for this solemn event.

[@La-yt1wr]

Ehh Saab is a good brand it just didn’t have good management. If it was owned by Volvo/Geely I bet it would succeed.

[@371francis]

Celebrating failure. How entertaining.

[@7584Vincent]

BROKEN THROUGH AN ACCIDENT

[@fredaydaybae8450]

Stop posting this BS😡

[@memerificmondays3196]

probably in some scrapyard now

[@knowbodiesfull5768]

I hope not!

[@modine6968]

I sure don't miss thoes boring ass cars

[@lucaswallo8127]

what

[@nadz109]

In a scrapyard now

[@MAGNUM05]

Is there proof?

[@knowbodiesfull5768]

I hope not! _(10/22/2023)_

[@bidartbauer8581]

Oldsmobile cars were such pretty vehicled, but damm they were crap, just like most US vehicles

[@cjones3710]

Saturn is junk.