Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais

Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais (1988-1991)

The Oldsmobile Calais is one to the summer of 1991 offered by Oldsmobile from the autumn of 1984 full size car with front wheel drive. As of spring 1988, the name was changed in Cutlass Calais.

The Calais was the successor to the Oldsmobile Omega, and was based on the N platform from General Motors. Relates he was therefore with Pontiac Grand Am and Buick Somerset Regal and ( from 1986) Buick Skylark.

Model history

The Calais appeared in the fall of 1984 to 1985 model year as a two-door coupe in the trim levels base and Supreme, powered by a 2.5 - liter inline four-cylinder Pontiac or a three-liter V6, which it differently than the smaller machine, gave, only with automatic. Pace Car was at the 500 miles of Indianapolis 1985 Calais - Cabriolet, which did not go into production.

1986, a four-door sedan was nachgeschoben in the same equipment. Were also a new GT package for the coupe and a sporty ES model for the sedan.

1987 were all Calais wide-band headlamps instead of the previous rectangular double headlights and selbstanlegende front seat belts. The ES sedan was replaced by the four-door GT.

For Spring 1988, the Calais was renamed Cutlass Calais. In addition to a facelift with a new grille, the model program has been rescheduled; addition to the base model was the Cutlass Calais SL luxuriously furnished and the sporty Cutlass Calais International Series, the latter fitted as standard with a 2.3 - liter DOHC four-cylinder, the so-called Quad Four, with five-speed gearbox.

In 1989, the facilities of the base model was stripped down, the previous base model was now called Calais Cutlass S. The performance of the four-cylinder engine increased to 112 hp. As of early 1989, the Quad Four was available in a 183 -hp high-performance version. The three-liter gave way to a new 3.3 -liter V6.

1990 Oldsmobile tradition the 442 was revived based on the Cutlass Calais S coupes; the model had the high-performance Quad Four, sports suspension, five-speed gearbox and alloy wheels.

By the end of production in the summer of 1991 came from ( Cutlass ) Calais total of 748,000 pieces.