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Originally posted by Johnnyangel@Dec 20 2003, 09:50 AM
The GTO is really from GM's Australian performance brand, Holden. They've been making them for a few years now under a different name. Oldsmobile isn't really dying, GM is just augmenting its other nameplates with Olds products. The Grand Am is the equivalent to the Alero, the "new" Grand Prix is just an Aurora V6 (not even the V8!) with different taillights, the Buick Rainier is a V8 Bravada... the only Olds that's really dying is the Intrigue, but the market segment isn't really there anymore anyway.
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Um, no offense, but you are mostly wrong.
The GA was made first, and the Alero and Malibu were designed off that platform. It wasn't an oldsmbobile-developed platform. The Aurora is nothing like the Grand Prix... they are 2 different platforms. In fact, the GP and Intrigue share a platform... and the GP is much older than the Intrigue is. The "new" GP is just styled different and tuned for a little more HP, but is almost the same mechanically as its former versions.
The one point you have is the Bravada turning into the Buick Rainier, but Buick was the only major GM brand that didn't have an SUV. The Bravada was made off the same platform as the Blazer and Jimmy, so it wasn't an olds design either.