What were some good GM cars back when they made them decent? Any notable cars from the 90s and early 2000s?
Those years are decent specially the trucks.
The trucks were decent. As well as the Tahoe and Surburban to about 2006 or so was decent. You can't forget about the Pontiac Vibe and the Buick 3.8 cars.
Reading these posts takes me back. I had a 1990 Buick Park Avenue with the 3.8L V6. Yes, that engine was great, and not too bad on gas mileage
Well I like my 5.3 and it has almost 300k on it. But not impressed with lifter oiling in it. I also rebuild trans at 80k. But easy and economical to work on. In all I've spent about 2.5k in parts over the last 18 years... so compared with others on the market, it's above average... I'm just picky on things that could have been done better out of factory.
But you said car so expect a bit more maintenance and cost. And not as cheap as what I spent as I have advantages by doing all the work myself and I replace with upgraded parts that last longer than oem...ex. ujoint's on my truck didn't last no time and had no zerk grease fitting and stock shocks didn't last long either.
Why GM?
it seems to be the trend now. Factory sealed components. It's just cost cutting and part of the consumption economy paradigm. Moving away from the auto ownership model, and towards auto subscription may actually solve this.
No particular reason I was just curious!
A friend has a '99 Pontiac Bonneville with the 3.8 V6 and that has been reliable for him. That's one of the best engines GM built in that era.
GM makes the finest rental cars in the business. I have rented many GM cars, but Pontiac Aztek was the highlight of GM styling
okay, I owned one GM car in my life a 1998 Saturn SW2 I purchased brand new. It threw a rod the second day of ownership and the dealership drug out the repair process for forty five days so sold the Saturn back to GM under Washington state’s lemon law and never looked at another General Motors product since.
The SPD had a full fleet of Ford Crown Vicky’s in 1998, but did get assigned a few Chevrolet Caprices and they held up pretty good considering they where a few years old by the time I did patrol duties with them
Easy, the Tahoe. I have heard they still made good Malibu's back then too.
My GM cars are as follows:
2002 Camaro SS Conv
2003 Hummer H2
2003 Chevrolet SSR
1996 Saturn SC-2 - Sold as not driven much.
All three have been failthfull almost all the time....still have them along with other non-GM vehicles
My OTHER cars are Lincoln, jeep, lexus and 2 Prius.
Isn't the Hummer H2 a knock off car with a cheaply made interior? I watched a video on it by Doug Demuro... We all know how that ended up.
My hummer will run over any made car and that is all the public needs to know....Cars swirve to get out of my way when I head toward them....
Cheap interor..mines all leather....your getting your info from unreliable and biased sites i can tell...
I laughed at this one thanks for making my day...
Their laughting at you...
@Dion
hehe Dion you got me thinking... I had quite a few GM's... the oldest being a 63 Buick LaSabre! The 70 Nova 6 I had was seemingly indestructible engine wise! Thanks for the memories : )
63 Buick LaSabre! The 70 Nova 6 ? Oh yeah...THOSE were classics...and in the era where cars had character and presense. Yeah some had some drive trains that were kinda way out but still...exciting times if i remember.
Ah, more memories! I think the 63 was the first midshaft bearing I replaced!
Then their was the infamous....TORQUE TUBE...Never worked on one and never will LOL! During that era the Corvair came out along with Mr Nader and his Politics. The VW Beetle was getting pretty popular and Dune Buggy shops were going main stream..the 70's Van craze.....RV movement....4x4 truck and camping....so much fun...but expensive also!
The EV1 is quite notable fir it’s time. The first mass produced electric car.
but you could only lease them. You couldn’t buy them. And get this. At the end of the lease, they were all crushed. Well, most of them anyway.
That’s notable.
Had GM EV worked out, I don’t think we would have Tesla.
