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Published on February 15th, 2016 | by BajaBusta

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1989: Oldsmobile’s Cal Trofeo

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Taking a cue from the Mercedes customizer AMG, Oldsmobile designers at the GM Advanced Concept Center in Southern California took a Trofeo luxury coupe down the same path for this one-off concept-car.  The California Trofeo, displayed at the L.A. and Chicago auto shows, was a custom job fully finished in appearance, and designed to be ready to go at the drop of the General’s signal.  The front end was a peculiar blend of unusual F-14 air intakes and show-car aero. Oldsmobile said the intakes were functional, the upper set ducting air to the engine inter-cooler and the bottom set to engine cooling.  The concept Trofeo’s engine offered greater reality.  It was Oldsmobile’s intercooled and turbocharged Quad4 producing between 195-250 hp. A 5-speed manual trans-axle changed the gears in this show car, though it was knonw that any GM trans-axle purported to withstand such an engine torque was wildly experimental, at best.

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2 Responses to 1989: Oldsmobile’s Cal Trofeo

  1. 98 REGENCY says:

    Thank you for this find! I remember this , but to see it here brings the memories back to me. It is funny what we forget until we see it again. I wonder what kind of hit this vehicle would have been?

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