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Curbside Classic: 1993 Buick Skylark Custom Sedan – Pandora’s Box Of Confusion
Posted on May 3, 2024 | 78 Comments(first posted 5/2/2018) The 1980s was a very dark period for design at General Motors. Building one virtually unchanged box after another, compact Chevrolets looked like full size […] -
GM North America’s FWD Platform Proliferation of the 1980s – A Guide To All 15 Platform Codes
Posted on July 10, 2023 | 102 Comments(first posted 7/11/2017) General Motors invested heavily in downsizing its lineup during the second half of the 1970s. With CAFE targets to meet and the potential threat of […] -
Car Show Classic: 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais Quad 442 W41 – Taking Performance To The Nth Degree
Posted on June 21, 2023 | 68 Comments(first posted 5/31/2017) My good friend Jason White was at a Cars and Coffee event out in Saddlebrook, NJ, surrounded by the Porsches and McLarens and supercars that he […] -
CC Outtake: 1990 Buick Skylark Luxury Edition – Nana’s Got A Hot Date On A Saturday Night
Posted on April 12, 2023 | 72 Comments(first posted 4/12/2017) Despite Buick’s marketing materials using words like “technology” and “future”, and featuring an attractive, young and blonde female runner on multiple pages, I’m willing to bet the […] -
Curbside Classics: The General Motors N-Body – How Quickly We Forget
Posted on October 19, 2022 | 142 Comments(first posted 6/6/2012) There are some things you just tend to forget about. Appointments to the dentist. Needing to tuck-point the brick on your house. What your wife wore on […] -
Curbside Classic: 1992-98 Buick Skylark – Please Feed The Birds
Posted on June 7, 2022 | 81 Comments(first posted 6/7/2016) While General Motors has launched a new Buick Verano in China, the line is being withdrawn from the North American lineup. It had been the first compact […] -
Curbside Classic: 2001 Oldsmobile Alero GLS – Going Out in Style
Posted on September 3, 2021 | 106 Comments(first posted 9/3/2015) It’s unfortunate that GM has a history of giving brands some of their best cars in the years right before the automaker goes ahead and discontinues that […] -
CC Capsule: 1994 Pontiac Grand Am SE – All In The Eye Of The Beholder
Posted on June 4, 2019 | 45 CommentsExtensively covered before, GM’s N-body needs no formal introduction. First introduced as 1985 models, the original GM N-body Buick/Oldsmobile/Pontiac trio debuted to lukewarm reception. Critics panned their sleep-inducing styling, stubby […] -
Curbside Classics: 2001 Pontiac Grand Am Coupe & Sedan – How I Remember Pontiac
Posted on September 10, 2018 | 84 CommentsOnce billed as GM’s “We Build Excitement” division, to many who grew up during the brand’s wonder years, Pontiac will forever rank high in their memories as a builder of muscle […] -
CC Outtake: Getting Passed By A Pontiac Grand Am On The Right – Not Grand, Just “Am”
Posted on January 13, 2017 | 52 CommentsThird generation Pontiac Grand Ams (first generation N-bodies) haven’t been common sights in the Northeast for a long time now, but a recent visit to the Sunshine State gave me […] -
CC Outtake: 1998 Oldsmobile Achieva SL – The Grass is Still Greener
Posted on October 6, 2015 | 46 CommentsIntroduced as a 1992 model, Oldsmobile’s intermediate-sized Achieva was part of the brand’s attempt to modernize and cleanse itself of its much-overused Cutlass name. The Achieva was also part of […]