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I have owned & been driving my 85 olds since 5.1996 (didn't drive from 04-09) & it runs great. The milage is 134,200 & I got car with 91k miles. I have mostly driven car in town & gotten horrible mpg but now that I drive mostly freeway i get better mpg ( OD tranny). my car gets a combined 18 mpg (in 1985 it was listed at 15/19). Not bad for a 34 yr old daily driver.
Awesome dude, long live the B-body (or you have one of the early FWDs which came out in 1985?)
One of the worst ideas was a Caddy Seville with a diesel, along with the Eldo. They just used a converted gas engine block 350 to a diesel, it was horrible, slow, nasty, loud, with all kinds of internal and external problems - what a bunch of wasted GM technical talent.
I agree 100%, however I once read a post which claimed GM released a FWD 4.3 Diesel around 1985/86 which he got some ridiculous amount of miles of in a FWD C-body Deville (like 200K). Supposedly that version worked. According to Wiki, such a motor did in fact exist for one year:
Awesome dude, long live the B-body (or you have one of the early FWDs which came out in 1985?)
Delta 88s weren't ruined until '86. 85s were still traditional quality RWD Oldsmobiles. You may be thinking of the 98, which was ruined a year earlier along with Cadillac Deville and Buick Electra with transverse FWD for '85.
Delta 88s weren't ruined until '86. 85s were still traditional quality RWD Oldsmobiles. You may be thinking of the 98, which was ruined a year earlier along with Cadillac Deville and Buick Electra with transverse FWD for '85.
I still think fondly of my two Oldsmobiles: the silver-gray '89 Cutlass Supreme with the 2.8L engine, very quick, which I drove to New Mexico in '93; and the '94 Cutlass Supreme in gold, the 3.1 engine (I think). It went with me to CO in 1997 and took me all over the Front Range until I traded for my first Mercedes, the '84 280CE. The only problem with the golden Olds was with the A/C: It was the first year of R-134 refrigerant, and GM's A/C systems didn't cool as well with it. Though in CO, with much lower humidity, it was not a problem.
Except for the terrible '84 Ford Escort, all of my American cars have been fun to drive, inexpensive to maintain and repair, and reliable.
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