Well, I don’t know if they’re worth that little these days, but here it’s certainly uncommon to see two on the same day.
“Here”, as some of you may already know, is Israel. The front-wheel-drive, W body Grand Prix was somewhat popular in Israel at the very early Nineties, selling quite well for its segment and price.
Not many survived, so you may understand my surprise to see two of these in one day, one of them (the blue) looking rather preserved. Actually I’m cheating a bit; the parked gray one is on the street where my mom lives, and I see it on and off during parental visits. Now that I think about it, it has been there at least fifteen years, and used all this time.
So here’s the video. I’m still in my Steely Dan phase:
Two grand prixs for a web cam? Sounds like the guy who gave up the web cam got ripped off.
“Aja”… *great* record.
These W-body Grand Prix (“Prixes”?), to me, represent the second time in short order that Pontiac had attempted an upgrade to the image of its workaday midsizers simply by changing its name, with the first example being the ’82 Bonneville “Model G”. By naming what probably should have been the new generation 6000 the “Grand Prix” (instead of putting that name on ice), it probably doomed any chance of the GP moniker ever making a grand return. Sadly, no chance of that happening in 2017. Cool finds, Yohai.
I enjoyed the W bodies cars of GM from 1988, to the mid 90’s I believe.
I can also say I equally thought each one was drastically different than the sister models. Each model carried the Division dept theme and styling pretty good. All the models were roomy, well appointed and great family cars. If I had to go in order from which was the best, I would say……
1. Olds Cutlass Supreme, especially with awesome exposed pillar convertibles. Sedans were also handsome
2. Regal, GS Gran Sport Coupe was great with the 3800 V6
Loved the Dash layout.
3. Pontiac Grand Prix, GT Coupe looked fast. Great on board computer that shows the road in graphics, and heads up display.
4. Chevrolet Lumina, Eurosport with the 3.4 DOHC 200 HP V6 was a sleeper.
Owned a 1994 Gran Prix and loved it. Was a monster in the snow especially with the second gear start button. Handled well and a great highway cruiser. Can’t say anything bad about it.
I never had any experience with those but at the time they looked as if GM was getting near the European way of doing cars. Almost.
We still occasional find a nice clean 1994-96 example of this generation GP in at our store, usually with the 3100 V6. I much preferred the 1997-2003 style with the 3800 of course. Those are still around in large quantities but many of have been beat to death by over jealous teenagers.
Great-looking cars then, and still the most handsome of the GM10 cars today. The higher-spec coupes had a nice bit of aggression with the hooded lamps without being cartoonish, and the sedans looked clean and sleek, especially with the full-width light bar.