1996 oldsmobile aurora commercial

[JeffHendrie]

-- from the oil-pan's age, and the fact that the seals are also old, the car runs like it was 99.99999999% brand new. (which is the newness of any car off the show-room floor). Speedometer goes up to 140MPH, (which I also heard was about the range of a police-car's speed, (150-160MPH), I don't think anyone's gotten one up to that speed yet though. Anyways, it's pretty fuel efficent, (if you drive a cirtain way, which I don't drive that way, nor do I think anyone else does). I like it, a lot. :)

[JeffHendrie]

-- cleaned the spare tire/wheel and the jack and everything. I vacuumed the entire car's interior, cleaned the windows, and waxed the car. Just around the end of last year though, I ran the front-drivers'-side quarter-pannel into the garage door track, (which although it fixed the door and rail along with their operation), it made a foot-ball size dent in the car, which my dad and I fixed. Still probably needs a couple areas of touch-up, but oh well. Great car. Even with the oil-pan leaking --

[JeffHendrie]

-- (Because the original agreement in Elemantary School I made with my dad, was that when he got a new car, or if he got my mom's car and my mom got a new car, that I would get the Aurora;) therefore, when he got a new car, around September 2011, when I was 14, and didn't yet start drivers' ed part-1, I got the Aurora, and it's my first car, and the first day I had it, I cleaned it all over, inside, outside, top bottom, chassis, engine area, (literally), and it looked almost brand new. I even --

[JeffHendrie]

My dad bought a 1999 Oldsmobile Aurora (built in September 1998), that was "maroon", (color tag also says "Maroon") when I was still in Elementry School, around first or second grade. I got my learners' permit last year, (I'm 16 now,) and I told my mom and dad (or implied it when telling them), that either I was going to drive that car, or they could drive me around for the rest of my life. --

[mrklimczyk]

@themamagoatshow yes. there is two engine options. v6 v8. i had a v8 but i dont have an aurora anymore.

[mrklimczyk]

i love the olds aurora with an optional sunroof.

[nosuchpersonvideo]

Oldsmobile, the World Trade Center and Liberty...three things that are no longer with us. :(

[themamagoatshow]

do thoes have v8's ???

[whattheheck1000]

@themamagoatshow They were available with a V6 or a V8.

June 13, 2011 11:56 pm

[Annihilator1111]

the 1995-1999 Oldsmobile Aurora was assembled in

Lake Orion, Michigan, United States

[Foxrrob]

They did get rid of the Pontiac. Oldsmobile and Pontiacs were 2 of the prettiest cars ever made.

[ggggggghhhhhhlll]

love the music

[hotjockosu]

The car has a complex V8 racing engine. They are designed to run hot, can run at very low oil pressures at times, but my mechanic has told me these are not bad engines and can travel 200K miles easily. I have 95 with 71K miles.

[SnilekHonzik]

Buick muss fall :-(

[MrBigbird131990]

yea everybody talking about how much they love aurora but do even know about the major over-heating problems they be getting that can damn near never be stoped

[ipodtouchfan221]

@MrBigbird131990 what are you TALKING ABOUT

[huanpup]

Today is the 9th Anniversary of 9/11. This commercial always puts me in a reflective mood. Who back then could have ever imagined what was going to happen in 5 years. BTW, can someone explain why Buick still exists?Even if Olds deserved to die Buick should have been next in line,not Pontiac.I blame Tiger Woods.....................

[liddlebopeep]

@huanpup Buick only survived because it's HUGE in China - they view Buicks the same way North Americans view Mercedes-Benz and BMW's, prestigious cars that drivers aspire to own. That's something I'll never understand.

[TechForThought]

Guys it doesnt make sense to keep oldsmobile. The niche that it was in has dried up. No one buys Personal Luxury Coupes anymore so they got rid of cars like oldsmobile, and the Lincoln Mark, and Cadillac Eldorado....

[zekthedeadcow]

GM should have gotten rid of GM and kept the niche brands

[TechForThought]

@zekthedeadcow they legally can't. Every car company has to have a brand with it's name on it according to US law. It's the only reason GMC every existsed

[MrThestig8]

ths car was wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy­yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy­yyyyyyyyyyyy ahead of its time!

[JuggaloAurora]

I have this car and it is amazing. Power and comfort galore.

[raybo73]

I was never a fan of Oldsmobile but my last two cars... (95+90) Oldsmobiles! I want an Aurora next time

[carocarotho]

i like the aurora much better that the equivalent taurus of the day!

[mythumps]

HAHA ridiculous!

[mandimayes]

This commercial still gives me goosebumps! :) GREAT AD!

[BimmerM5e39]

It was the first model that showed oldsmobile was transforming. Only if it was RWD. I still preferd the impala ss back then which had more hp/tq.

[huanpup]

The Aurora was everything the Taurus should have evolved into.

[huanpup]

I don't ever remember seeing this commercial.Great ad for a great car.What a damm shame it wasn't enough to save Olds.

[hotjockosu]

Long live Oldsmobile! When these cars came out i though WOW, what a beautiful car. The best thing to come out of Lansing in 30 years! I never though id own one, but happy i do now.

[ghtowagon]

Such a cool commercial.. RIP olds.. RIP GM.. America is no longer American. :(

[Novemberrainn82]

GM was to large and had too many re-bagged cars from brand to brand, sunbird-cavailer, alero-grand am, impala-grand prix-intrigue, deville-park avenue-bonnieville-aurora-rive­ra.

[Novemberrainn82]

from working on cars... most parts are interchangable.....

[Mrtriumphchopper]

Olds was sadly discontinued at the peak of it's excellent recent sales and model offerings. It wasn't Olds in trouble, it was/is GM. And now we face the prospect of losing Pontiac the self-same way. This leaves a big gap between mostly entry level Chevy and upscale Buick. Cadillac should have jumped far ahead to it's roots as The Standard of the World in progressive world-class luxury engineering, and Olds as the traditional GM performance division. Too little,too late,now.

[MrThestig8]

ahh a very sexy oldsmobile but they are too weak on power

[mustangrules]

HEY!! BIG LADY THATS MY CAR!!! put it down!

[char1737]

the Oldsmobile Aurora was the car that would "save" the automaker the late 80's came and went then they changed the tag line to " this isn't your fathers Oldsmobile, but it was too late i would have and still would buy one just to have a peace of history.

[SHADOWNADO]

The "Aurora" was originally designed for Cadillac for 1992. The "bubble-car" photo (with the Cadillac Aurora name) was at the GM Training Center in Burbank for many years. The Olds version looks much better. I bought a new 1998 Aurora and drove it 9 years. I missed it so much I just bought another one!

Toyota hired American designers to steal our design philosophy away to create a V8 RWD sedan. To me the Lexus LS always drove like a fat Camry-pure junk, then and now, only $82,000 junk today.

[SHADOWNADO]

Toyota hired GM technicians to "design" the Lexus LS400 in 1986. Aurora simply took the award back!

[Myaurora2001]

Where did ya get that from?

The Aurora was started before Lexus came out with their ls400. The Aurora is truly an great well made car. One of GM's finest car.

[3800TType]

Aurora was truly the last great Olds.

Its a shame they killed the brand, but really, it made sense, Buicks are historically better built and neither brand was selling incredibly well, so they stuck with the brand that had more repeat buyers and a stronger direction.

Saturn and terrible marketing is what killed Oldsmobile. Saturn used money and time, and many late 80s early 90s ads completely alienated previous buyers, though the product was at its best. This is a fantastic commercial though...

[westyland]

they blew half their budget on this shitty commercial

[whattheheck1000]

This commercial is the opposite of shitty. Try "they spent a lot of money on this awesome commercial"

[technochook]

lol

[StevoElsupremo]

lol cute...

[jose65536]

Wow! This is when the Statue of Liberty picks up the new car!

[oldsmobiletw]

simple gifts

[gmfleetwood1996]

Toyota killed the Oldsmobile, not GM. And some stupid americans who is buying the toyota cars in America.

[aakozanoglu]

Whoever buys Toyota is very smart.Oldsmobile was a great car. The makers of it have not been able to adjust to new consumer demands in terms of quality, fuel consumption and reliability.

[patotas07]

America is a continent not a country

and in the United States you can buy a toyota in a free market country

[jkt992]

America is a country.

North America is a continent

[95oldsaurora]

these are the best american cars ever made own a 95 love it to death stupid GM shoulda got rid of pontiac not OLDSMOBILE

[Rapmastac1]

I think they should really have gotten rid of Saturn. Saturn is doing worse than Olds was.

[95oldsaurora]

yeha either pontiac or saturn ponitac will be the next to go

[aakozanoglu]

They got rid of Oldsmobile because of costly production. They were not able to make big profits on it, consumers were lucky to have gotten so much for so little.

[toyotas2006]

It was costly because they reverse engineered the 1993 Lexus LS400 to make it, right down to the 250HP DOHC V8

Rebuilding someone else's greatness is expensive, just not as much as Lexus spent

Good car, cheap dash

A fad

One bad redesign, and it's DOA

[aakozanoglu]

Do not get me wrong. I hate the Big Three. But the design of this Aurora I like.Most American cars do look good, built well (except the engine and transmission departments).

[F41Driver]

Where did you get this load of bullshit?

[ThunderAppeal]

@95oldsaurora GM should have dumped Buick. I'll bet that Buick was going to get dumped because Buick wasnt building anything anyone liked. The Aurora was Oldsmobiles crown jewel.

[whattheheck1000]

@95oldsaurora How about selling individually unique cars for both companies? The Aurora was one of the last of these vehicles made by GM; many newer GMs are "badge-engineered" - e.g. the Pontiac Grand Am/Oldsmobile Alero, Oldsmobile Silhouette/Pontiac Trans Sport/Chevrolet Venture, and many more. They shouldn't sell the same car under multiple brands - that made GM inefficient and ultimately go bankrupt.

March 20, 2011 12:57 am

[RCA1186]

@whattheheck1000 you ever hear of the ford taurus/mercury sable, the crown vic/grand marquis/marauder/lincoln continental, the explorer/mounatineer, gm is not the first nor the last to use that technique

[whattheheck1000]

@RCA1186 GM was the most prolific, but I will admit, Ford, Chrysler, even Japanese and now Korean cars are doing that.

May 28, 2011 7:10 pm

[wilsob26]

@95oldsaurora 3yrs later from your comment, but, YOU SHOULD BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR.

[JeffHendrie]

@95oldsaurora I believe I already posted it here, but I got a '99, as my first car, love it like heck. Pontiac still made good cars, so I don't think it should've gone, but Saturn... oh boy... at the time when everyone says "BUY AMERICAN", they got rid of AMERICAN car companies, and kept foriegn ones. BAD IDEA FOR MARKETING. (Thus, they went bankrupt). Keep Olds, don't go bankrupt, keep pontiac, don't go bankrupt, keep both, don't go bankrupt, keep only saturn, go bankrupt and die.

[palebeachbum]

I have always loved the looks of this Aurora. I hate the patriotic commercial though. Seems like it should be featuring a pickup truck, not a luxury car.

[miamifatman]

i own the car with 130,000 miles... its a rare one and if any of its car parts fail, hope you have a FAT wallet!!! waterpump = $426; Key Ignition (which reads the chip of the key) $560! this happened to mebut i love the car

[shelw54]

Damn you paid way to much for that. Best way to get parts cheaper is order it yourself and have a mechanic you trust put it on for ya or do it yourself.

[AlwaysWebsurfing]

Wow, I remember this commercial, it's a beauty, I hope it won some creativity awards. Little did I know that four years later I would be driving that same car and what a gem it is, it just turned 100,000 miles & I plan to keep it for a long, long time.

and about the song, someone mentioned a few comments back that the background music is a song by Aaron Copeland called Appalacian Spring

[AgentA30080]

Specifically "Simple Gifts"

[ktpellas]

What song is that being played throughout this commercial?

[basketballbeast06]

that car is sick

[MyAurora1995]

Best American cars of all time. I wish Oldsmobile will come back. But stupid G.M. dont think, now G.M. has crappy cars since Oldsmobile is gone. My Aurora has lasted me since October of 1994 when I first bought and still going strong.

[robinsaye]

This gets a five from me. I have to say though, that the best commercials seem to be from mood-altered minds, which this one seems to be.

[newswisahouse]

its real american car..this is my dream in future:) but in poland i saw this car only feew times

[Dano853]

When I saw my first Aurora in 95 it was at a stop light. What kind of car was THAT? Pearl paint, awesome curves and some odd squigly line on the hood but no name plate. What WAS it? I had no idea I'd be driving one within 5 yrs. I love it.

[nuke00]

so patriotic lolllll

[meldon100]

this was tight...lmao

[CAIRO0981]

what does imao mean?

[LinkMKZMan]

that was pretty neat.

[justonethingmore]

i've been looking for this commercial forever. thank you!

[hitps101]

i remember this commercial, i graduated from high school that yr

[michaelsanchezsf]

what is the song that is playing in the background? I remember this commerical back in the 90s and I can not figure out the music that is playing.

[meestercranky]

it's a traditional American melody called "Shaker Melody". Sometime sang with the words to Psalm 145 set to it.

[AMERICANHYMN]

It is an American Hymn by Aaron Copeland

[AMERICANHYMN]

oops....my bad it is "appalachian spring" by copland

[FordFanatic59]

my grandpa baught a 1995 Aurora when they first came out and now it has 350,000 miles on it

[olznut]

I've driven both Aurora gens. Imo, the 1st gen is sportier than the 2nd gen. Both real nice cars, but I like the 1st gen more.

[JesdaG]

Among the best ads of the 90s.

[danief22]

DUDE. my dads cousin modeled the 3d net for the statue of liberties robe. be jealous.

[mandimay]

This is my all time favorite commercial!!! A work of art, isn't it? Thanks for sharing it!

[cnocher02]

a few other parts too

[cnocher02]

if you look closely at the end you can see the twin towers. brought tears to my eyes after i thought for a minute

[scottman117]

I own one of the new ones, but these old ones are frickin awesome!

[ChrisRand]

Wow! It is great to see this commercial again. Oldsmobile's ad campaign for the 1996 Aurora was awesome.

[MrMcClane]

They should have made her grin more then that. Haha. Still great commercial.

[betsyfross]

i love that commercial.

[librazul]

Timeless design. I own one.

[auroraboy95]

HEY!!!! thats my car ^^

i love my aurora, a awsome car

[markviii82]

I'm not sure why a new Aurora would be arriving in New York on a ship, but a very cool commercial nonetheless. :)

[mraurora]

It was a ferry.

[Karrmann]

I want an Aurora, it is less of a car, and more of a work or art.

[OLDS98]

More impressive Oldsmobile ads!! Thank you!! I have a lot of GM and Oldsmobile footage on video. I sometimes wish I could put it on here. I just enjoy watching and adding them to my favorites.

[3800fan]

Why can't you put Oldsmobile footage on Youtube?

[OLDS98]

I do not know how plus I do not know what equipment you need. If I did, I would try it.