1991 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight Touring Sedan Test Drive
For 1991 Oldsmobile’s Ninety-Eight was dramatically redesigned. It went from having an ultra-conservative, formal design (which I was a big fan of), to an edgy, look-how-different-I-am appearance.
Let’s take a look at some of the steps stylists took during the model’s transformation
From introvert to attention getter
I remember when I was young, wondering about how odd it would be to speak of Oldsmobile’s 88 and 98 models in reference to their corresponding years.
“I drive a ’98 Ninety-Eight.” Or how about, “I drive a ’97 Ninety-Eight”? Well, the awkward phrase was never a problem because the Ninety-Eight model didn’t survive past 1996. What did seem odd, however, is the extroverted design Oldsmobile bestowed their top model with for its eleventh generation.
I personally thought that Oldsmobile’s tenth-generation (the 1985 through 1990) Ninety-Eight was the best looking of its sister C-cars, Buick’s Park Avenue and Cadillac’s De Ville/Fleetwood.
It’s not that I think the 1991 Ninety-Eight is ugly or even unattractive, I just think it wasn’t a stylistic improvement over the outgoing model and betrays an apparent behind-the-scenes priority of visual distinction over best design. Regardless, the 1991 model has some very interesting design cues.
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AWESOME RARE 1991 OLDSMOBILE 98 LUXURY 1 OF 8 CONTENDERS FOR MOTOR TREND ’91 CAR OF THE YEAR BASED OF CHEVROLET CAPRICE CLASSIC,BUICK PARK AVENUE AND PONTIAC BONNEVILLE
caprice was rear drive, not the basis for the 98. The caprice however won!
Thanks for the citation TDJ! This video is a great compliment to my write up. I got a kick out of the host’s mention of “over 50 similar switches” on the dash.
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