Ceremony acknowledging the final Oldsmobile manufactured, an Alero, as it rolls off the assembly line.
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@paulhenderson61283 жыл бұрын
It's amazing they have the same band from when they built the first Oldsmobile
@gabriel.9548 ай бұрын
OMG I laughed so hard ... thanks
@dullaverage16675 ай бұрын
The are playing that toe tapper… “IN MY MERRY OLDSMOBILE”
@dekelanson52804 ай бұрын
😂😂
@thebestisyettocome41142 жыл бұрын
A day no one wanted. Oldsmobile was just a outstanding brand. GM made a major mistake to drop the brand. Thank you.
@minivanmaster3 жыл бұрын
I'll miss my Oldsmobile. Owner of an Alero for 9 years. Such joy. Great memories. Would love to own a final 500
@7584Vincent3 жыл бұрын
BROKEN THROUGH AN ACCIDENT
@minivanmaster3 жыл бұрын
@@7584Vincent Yeah, the engine was fantastic, got up to 179,000 miles and the car still reached 24 mpg combined
@7584Vincent3 жыл бұрын
@@minivanmaster Indeed ! I have the same car in Europe. 74,000 miles.
@minivanmaster3 жыл бұрын
@@fenrislegacy I saw that. So heartbreaking. Surely at least half of them are either rusted or rotting in a junkyard
@automotivemachinerytechnic4123 жыл бұрын
I have a 2.2l ecotec engine and it sounds just beautiful
@Mark-zu6oz3 жыл бұрын
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_N3 жыл бұрын
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.
@jeffjackson96793 жыл бұрын
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.
@Juscuzautollc3 жыл бұрын
I have a 1995 3.4 cutlass convertible for sale
@ms90sbabyy2 жыл бұрын
That was my first car
@Carguy-sp8xj2 жыл бұрын
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.
@Marc8162 жыл бұрын
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!!!!!!!
@marcd29363 жыл бұрын
I have a 2000 Alero V6 in arctic white. It's my daily driver and works great.
@robertpeck69163 жыл бұрын
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!!
@sydspoak67543 жыл бұрын
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-ok8gj8 ай бұрын
Every Pontiac I owned burned up. Oldsmobile never gave me a problem.
@codycrawford23853 жыл бұрын
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
@pinball5413 жыл бұрын
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!🔥
@codycrawford23853 жыл бұрын
@@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
@musicmoviesandgames20043 жыл бұрын
Wow. I was only 13 days old when this happened. I least I was around back then lol
@ryana329811 ай бұрын
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.
@americantadpole71627 ай бұрын
I’m 21, i have the exact same model but it’s 1997, the last model year. First car at 16
@CT_Taylor6 ай бұрын
My first car was a 1990 88 with 3.8.im 25
@garbage8543 жыл бұрын
Oldsmobiles are awesome 😀
@Midnight_Wave_19893 жыл бұрын
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.
@BKFB19578 ай бұрын
R.I.P. Oldsmobile 1897-2004
@SuperBigswede3 жыл бұрын
Because GM said that it was bether to invest in other brands, like Saturn.. And we know how that went..
@realanti-jewish81543 жыл бұрын
JEWs
@fredaydaybae84503 жыл бұрын
Completely SAD! The decision to invest in those trashy brands is what killed Olds. I’ll NEVER own another GM for that reason.
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.
@AndroidSunner3 жыл бұрын
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
@sofadviolator2 жыл бұрын
Wonder how many of these big wigs lost their jobs?
@erikaandrews46484 ай бұрын
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.
@bigneutron773 жыл бұрын
These people sure are happy at a funeral
@Myaurora20013 жыл бұрын
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.
@audieconrad89952 жыл бұрын
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...
@juanpabloarena27242 жыл бұрын
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 ✨
@leeannfrohn882 ай бұрын
Still my dream car!
@saganich744 жыл бұрын
Pathetic end to a great car division
@GiordanDiodato4 жыл бұрын
could have been worse could have been a Bravada
@7584Vincent3 жыл бұрын
BROKEN THROUGH AN ACCIDENT
@fredaydaybae84503 жыл бұрын
@@GiordanDiodato Bravada was FANTASTIC! WtF are you talking about?! Could’ve been a Rainer would be more appropriate SIR!!! Or Ma’am!
@Rick888433 жыл бұрын
It was expanded into Buick
@440_SIXPACK Жыл бұрын
@@fredaydaybae8450just a Chevy blazer
@chriswright84642 жыл бұрын
Had a 2001 Oldsmobile Intrigue, GREAT CAR.
@PontiacFan683 жыл бұрын
who is watching this now when we have a crisis
@PontiacFan682 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@PontiacFan682 жыл бұрын
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.
@PontiacFan682 жыл бұрын
@@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. 😡😠
@cjones37102 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@cjones37102 жыл бұрын
@@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...
@elmarko90513 жыл бұрын
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.
@JCT4422 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@Justin Trabocco It wasn't the "heads" in Lansing by that time. By then all control came from the 14th floor.
@wilbertvanwolferen51485 ай бұрын
I bought a ‘99 Alero last week and loving it!
@howtobebasic21223 ай бұрын
yesterday April 29th, 2024, marked 20 years since the last Oldsmobile was built.
@sunnyMadonna3 жыл бұрын
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_N3 жыл бұрын
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.
@TexasMan774 жыл бұрын
Hmmm Olds changed the symbol from the rocket, but there it is on the podium. Hmmm..
@realanti-jewish81543 жыл бұрын
Bring Back Oldsmobile
@PontiacFan683 жыл бұрын
sadly it will never happens because of GMs financial trouble and teaming up with CHINA SH!T
@knowbodiesfull576810 ай бұрын
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)_
@Jordi71743 жыл бұрын
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.
@johncornell36654 ай бұрын
Oldsmobile stood for quality. It was a shame that they shut down such a fine brand.
@joshtumblin58933 жыл бұрын
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!
@paulcorreggio49253 жыл бұрын
How bout a 442?? They should have made a few last 442's.
@La-yt1wr2 жыл бұрын
I’m surprised they didn’t represent the Aurora
@ajanderson27872 жыл бұрын
The 88 & Achieva were great also.
@erikaandrews46484 ай бұрын
I had an alero gls with beautiful leather seats and fold down seats in the back. It was a good little car.
@stassibonassi73733 жыл бұрын
I wish they would bring the name back 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
@Couchflyer-NY3 ай бұрын
UAW local 652 rep. Al Cooper worked there for 58 years. Think about that for a moment.
@stevenj99703 жыл бұрын
Such a shame. My family was an olds family for DECADES…every family had their own fav car maker….
@ddub9696 Жыл бұрын
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_9 ай бұрын
Goodbye Oldsmobile 😭😭😭😭😭😭
@BKofficer232 ай бұрын
I think they did a good job with this event.
@francopetre61713 жыл бұрын
When Sara Palin worked for Oldsmobile...
@RoundenBrown Жыл бұрын
XD
@edevanko1602 жыл бұрын
Look how far has GM fallen miss my Olds and Pontiac
@incompetentdiplomat37163 жыл бұрын
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.
@georgekostician32293 жыл бұрын
Wish I can find a video like for the Pontiac brand
@fredaydaybae84503 жыл бұрын
Why?! Pontiac was trash compared to the technology division, Olds. And I own a 97 Trans Am
@georgekostician32293 жыл бұрын
@@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
@fredaydaybae84503 жыл бұрын
@@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-mj4if3 жыл бұрын
Me too, unfortunately they didn’t do anything for the last pontiac produced, it was just a white G6
@pinball5413 жыл бұрын
@@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-nm1se2 жыл бұрын
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
@Gaspipenicklioni2 жыл бұрын
Olds was the test vehicle division, their first ohv v8 came in 1949.
@Gaspipenicklioni2 жыл бұрын
I had 1980 cutlass diesel, put in a 455 olds, indestructible car, handled like a vett. Miss it bad.
@mikeperry67943 жыл бұрын
Biggest mistake GM ever made.
@sydspoak67543 жыл бұрын
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.
@weegeemike2 жыл бұрын
Killing Olds and Pontiac were 2 huge mistakes. GM has never been as powerful or successful since.
@mcqueenfanman3 жыл бұрын
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-yt1wr2 жыл бұрын
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.
@juanpabloarena27242 жыл бұрын
The very unfortunate end of a longed-for era...
@weegeemike2 жыл бұрын
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.
@johncarney28838 ай бұрын
I wonder if they will have this fanfare when they close the last US assembly plant...so sad.
@Rico_MLG2 жыл бұрын
Who still watching in 2022 💔
@549BR Жыл бұрын
The band members look like your classic Olds buyers and owners. It's over.😎
@jhaeck19 ай бұрын
shoulda kept the olds brand..
@shanke3002 жыл бұрын
Sad demise of an American ingenuity.
@TexasMan774 жыл бұрын
Is this Lansing Michigan?
@revive0the0alive4 жыл бұрын
Yeah🙂
@allenkranawetter9482 Жыл бұрын
It is the last Oldsmobile in the museum or in private hands ?
@thirty3na3rd Жыл бұрын
Not sure. I just had a copy of the video and posted it for others to watch.
@kriche74 Жыл бұрын
It was in a museum until 2017. Then a dealer bought it.
@it1988a9 ай бұрын
Is that the same band from Mayberry?
@Fifthcell3 жыл бұрын
The last car was an Alero? Pathetic end
@cindylawrence15153 жыл бұрын
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....
@JamesKarne3 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
They should have killed off Buick instead.
@evelynortega40128 ай бұрын
😢
@Rick888433 жыл бұрын
they expanded it into Buick
@speederz15 ай бұрын
GM was dumb dropping Olds and pontiac,i use to bring your heating and air cond from Delphi in Lockport NY
@fludeball2 жыл бұрын
2004?! Those women with their shirts tucked in their pants look like they came out of 1982.
@thirty3na3rd2 жыл бұрын
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.
@Gaspipenicklioni2 жыл бұрын
80s ladies
@quantum62773 жыл бұрын
April 29 2004 is my birthday
@majorpayne52892 жыл бұрын
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!
@jeremiahlewis92962 жыл бұрын
General Motors didn’t get enough money of Oldsmobile so they have to discontinuing iy
@Wargasm542 жыл бұрын
That was 2004?? Looks like 1994🤣
@lavykhurana3 жыл бұрын
man such an old brand and they cut it off.
@fredaydaybae84503 жыл бұрын
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
@sydspoak67543 жыл бұрын
Yeah LOL, somehow I don't think Quiet Riot would have been a good match for this solemn event.
@La-yt1wr2 жыл бұрын
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.
@371francis9 ай бұрын
Celebrating failure. How entertaining.
@7584Vincent3 жыл бұрын
BROKEN THROUGH AN ACCIDENT
@fredaydaybae84503 жыл бұрын
Stop posting this BS😡
@memerificmondays31963 жыл бұрын
probably in some scrapyard now
@knowbodiesfull57683 жыл бұрын
I hope not!
@modine69683 жыл бұрын
I sure don't miss thoes boring ass cars
@lucaswallo81272 жыл бұрын
what
@nadz1092 жыл бұрын
In a scrapyard now
@MAGNUM05 Жыл бұрын
Is there proof?
@knowbodiesfull576810 ай бұрын
I hope not! _(10/22/2023)_
@bidartbauer85813 жыл бұрын
Oldsmobile cars were such pretty vehicled, but damm they were crap, just like most US vehicles