Used car buyers pushed into older vehicles due to rising costs

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/used-car-buyers-pushed-older-170400050.html

2 minutes ago, trinacriabob said:

It made it!  I did it!

Never did I think this vehicle, delivered to me new some 15.75 years ago in a suburb of Portland, OR, would move out of the PacNw, or even California.  Well, it did.  On trips out of town, I usually rent a car, whether from a neighborhood location or from whatever airport I use.

I wanted the car to "see" (LOL) the Atlantic Seaboard, and here it is, at Virginia Beach VA, doing just that (see photo - at Rudee Inlet, with Oceanfront district to the left and Croatan Beach to the right). The plan was to continue up along the coast and take it for the quick tour of NYC where it would quickly circle its 5 boroughs:  I-278 across Staten Island, the Verrazano Bridge, aorund Brooklyn and Queens on the Belt Parkway (stop at beach at Far Rockaway near JFK airport), up through Queens on the Van Wyck Expwy or parallel route, the Whitestone or Throg's Neck Bridge into the Bronx, I-95 across the Bronx (stop in little Italy) and the skinny part of Manhattan (stop at the Cloisters for a view over the Hudson and the GW Bridge), and then, finally, cross the GW Bridge before heading into New Jersey.  That circle tour is no more than 25 to 30 miles ... and 5 boroughs ... such a deal.  Sadly, I did not continue north to NYC for some unforeseen developments.  (The car has been running like a champ.)

Oh well, as a consolation, never did I think I'd drive the car to Toronto 3x, including a visit and photos of it at the GM plant in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, where it came off the line.

Doing goofy and quirky things can make life interesting.

Congrats to you!  I like seeing GM cars make those journeys and making a statement at the same time.  It is a better experience when it is in your own car. Glad to see the car is running well. The great American road belongs to Buick. 

Vehicles Thieves Crave Most — and Least

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57 minutes ago, Drew Dowdell said:

Haven’t had one of these since 2019. I know it’s not going to be like old days, but it will never come back if we keep not going.
 

Congrats Drew on attending. I hope you have a grand time. 

I missed this thread. I do not know how I did. 

1963  Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight:

1965- 1966 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight:

1975- 1976 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight:

1980-1984 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight:

1991-1996 Oldsmobile Ninety- Eight

1966 Oldsmobile Toronado:

1973 - 1976 Oldsmobile Toronado:

1979-1985 Oldsmobile Toronado:

1990- 1992 Oldsmobile Toronado

1980-1990  Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser:

1980-1985 Oldsmobile Eighty Eight:

1992-1999 Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight/ Regency/LSS

1974-1975 Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight

1976-1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme

1981-1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme

1984-1988 Oldsmobile Ciera

Oldsmobile Bravada

Thank you everyone for your birthday wishes. It is appreciated. I thought I would share something that arrived in my driveway in July.  It was bought  in July after the demise of the black Toronado in May 2021. I have not said anything because I have been working on things to get to registered and in proper working order.  It is from Canada. I bought it outside the United States and had paid for importation and paperwork.  That is why there has been a delay  of me posting videos and articles.  I thought you might wanted to see the new Toronado. 

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Hmmmmm......

Or this...

I missed out responding to the photos of the downsized Oldsmobile Ninety Eight the other day. That was a 1989-1990 model. They stopped using the script "Ninety Eight" after 1988 model year. People liked the downsized Ninety Eight Touring Sedan. It did not have the name Ninety Eight on the Touring Sedan until 1991. 

GM Set to Keep Making Gas-Powered Trucks and SUVs to Help Fund its Shift to EV

https://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2023/06/gm-set-to-keep-making-gas-powered-trucks-and-suvs-to-help-fund-its-shift-to-evs/