These cars still hold many records that have not been broken, or even touched, in over 30 years. The Quad 4 is Americas most powerful 4 cylinder motor. Period. Thanks for the reupload, motorweek!
Olds research and development was in charge of the Northstar design. That quad 8 must’ve been some inspiration 🤔 too bad they didn’t get the head bolts right, the Northstar is an amazing engine when it’s running properly
I thought the biggest problem with the Northstar was that they used tiny head studs or bolts. There's a company that sells a kit to bore and tap them out to put bigger ones in to solve that problem. But I guess you really have to love the car and the engine to do that.
267 mph?!?!!! Holy crap. Because it's 1980's Oldsmobile I wasn't expecting much. These speeds are comparable to Koenigsegg Agera RS, Bugatti Veyron/Chiron and Hennessey Venom. All from a QUAD 4 engine. Mind blown.
@@antiochiaadtaurum3786 Not really, building a race car and building a street car is worlds apart. Its hard to overstate just how different they are, even if they at first glance looks similar. If you are that impressed, they did 300 mph in special race cars, such as this is, back in the 1930s..
Thank you for posting this Motorweek. I knew this video existed. It was great to see the Quad 8 and that turbocharged downsized Ninety Eight. I smiled. I look forward to more GM videos and footage. It is interesting to watch what could have been.
Let's just imagine that one day an entrepreneur starts up an Olds car company and we see some of the old models reborn. Just imagine a modern 442 or Cutlass.
This is what made me the automotive weirdo I am today. I had a poster of the Aerotec on my wall as a kid, and a poster of the Beretta GTZ that had the quad 4 in it (one of the cutaway drawings). I dreamed of owning one of the Calais 442's but by the time I got to where I could afford one, they were all rusted away. The closest I got was a quad 4 swapped into a Cutlass Ciera with a 5 speed that I ran some autocross events with. I always wanted to do a cutlass coupe with that drivetrain (or the f40 6 speed) as a daily driver. Maybe one day.
It was pretty easy to kill any production V8 in 2001 lol. Production cars, performance cars rather really only got serious in the past 7 years from the US. We're still recovering from the CAFE regulations and the oil crisis of the 70's. GM makes good power, always has
That “QUAD 8” would have been awesome it even looked sexy. I love the retro review with the beretta tho the quad in that one looked and sounded awesome especially the fwd burnout !!!
Oh, boy! If that 5.0 liter Quad 8 V8 had been produced, Oldsmobile might still be around today. That would have been some engine. Imagine the Aurora with a 300hp Quad 8 V8 engine. I can and it sounds awesome.
1:16 ...That wild looking, tubular aluminum intake manifold. 👍 Used to always see these intake manifolds all over the shop floor, near the collection of random drivetrains, at the salvage yard I always went to for parts when I was a teenager. I loved the way they look. (Still do)
I came here because I had a model kit of of the Oldsmobile Aerotech back in the 1990's. I did a crappy job of building it, but it was always awesome to me.
I mean, the Gr. B rally cars made about 500-600 HP in the 80's with many being 1.8 I4 engines ( legend has it that when Lancia was testing the Delta S4, which had a turbo _and_ a supercharger, they set the boost pressure to max on both and it made 1000 HP, and it was just a 1.8 4 pot ! )
At the peak of the Formula 1 "Turbo Era", they had 1.5 liter 4-cylinder cars turning turning out 1300-1500hp, at 5.5 bar (~80psi) of turbo boost in qualifying trim. They were dialed back to ONLY 1000hp in race trim...
Okay, so an American car company back in the early 90s was able to brake 250 miles an hour and then immediately thereafter break 260 miles an hour but everyone thinks that the McLaren F1 was the first car to ever hit 240 miles an hour. And that the Bugatti Veyron is the first car to ever hit 250 miles an hour. Granted they are production vehicles but I just want to take a moment to recognize that America kicks ass and we did that long before the Brits or the French ever thought about
Sorry but if we are talking non street legal cars doing 250+ mph they already did that in the 1930s, so yeah. I am as patriotic as the next guy but this is not one of the great achievments of the US. It sure looks cool though.
Currently sitting in the REO Olds museum, and GM heritage center. However, some engines have made it out into ths public. I know of one that is currently residing in a garage in upstate new york.
Oldsmobile was completely squandered. yes I know they came out with the Aurora V8 but that 5 liter quad-8 would have been even more powerful. If they would have done that Oldsmobile might still be around today. I always really liked them as a brand and yes they were always very advanced on technology him and they always tried to stand out amongst the other GM brands. Very disappointing that nothing else was done with them..
It really could have, especially the turbo quad 4 versions of the oldsmobile 88 and 98, they could have created a market segment of fast luxury cars that is very prevalent today
i had a poster of one of these on my wall as a kid! actully my walls were nothing but posters and cut out picures of super cars and muscle cars and framed pics my dad took at nascar races that we would take with our pit passes to get autographed
Got a 2.4 Twin Cam ( heavily revised. Quad 4) in my 2001 Z24. Bought it new and now have 209k on it. Great engine, never changed anything on it. Have done over 60 oil changes on it.
It's just a shame that the Quad 4 ended up eating head gaskets like I eat Wegman's chocolate chip cookies!!!!!!! 2:40...........I always felt that the Quad 8, had it gone into production, would have been a MUCH more appropriate engine for the Ninety-Eight than the Quad 4 Turbo.
Are Wegman's chocolate chip cookies really that good? I don't live within walking distance of a Wegmans, so I've had to make do with the Shopper's brand, which are actually pretty good themselves.
landyachtfan79 the head gasket issue is a very common misconception, spread by word by inexperienced mechanics. This was, in fact, a condensation issue. NOT head gaskets.
I wonder if any of that technology they were talking about, made it into my 1994 oldsmobile cutlass supreme, thing is pretty quick. But then again it's GM so i doubt it
I don't know why the Quad4 had to have such a bad distributorless ignition. Other GM cars had multiple 2 tower ignition coils, and that system worked really well.
@@vector6977 it wasnt "lost", thats called waste spark ignition. it was extremely common then and still somewhat is now. it helps to burn excess fuel. the Quad4 had extremely powerful ignition coils, 40,000V each. thats the reason those engines didnt like the first gen platinum plugs that fit it. the teeny amount of platinum overheated which caused misfires and preignition. you had to use a step colder plug if using platinums back then. heat was the culprit of the Quad4s ignition system. the coils and controle module were pretty reliable, it was the ignition coil housing itself that generally failed. it generally cracked and the result was misfires and tell-tale carbon tracks up the housing. it was a pain but a new housing was only $40 and took less than 15 minutes to replace. it was annoying but at least it wasnt expensive or difficult to diagnose/repair.
That's phenomenal at 267 and yes I'm aware of the sledge but this is a totally different animal.... If what MW is saying to be true then a 2 litre 4 produced 1100 plus hp in what year? Where did we go wrong? All the while mass production with an 180 hp variant has to have been government regulated.(PERIOD) Wrap your mind around that for just a moment.... Can you imagine Olds maybe rebranding, anything to stay in the game under corporate regulations to buy some time... Again a 4 cylinder making 1100 plus hp, and running speeds of 267 .... these are Bugatti numbers with a 4 cylinder 🤣😅😂
Too bad they decided not to support the Quad-4 midget program developed in Oklahoma by Edwin Wilson.. It wound up being the impetus for the Ford Focus midget program, but Olds didn't want to play in that arena :(
That Aerotech Quad4 had a bit more power than my 1989 Pontiac Grand Am lol. If only GM would have produced the Quad8 instead of the boat anchor Northstar....🙄
Quad 4 was JUNK!!! Had it in my 92 Grand Prix. Always had computer and timing issues, and finally the timing belt snapped, trashing the motor. Again... JUNK!!!!
@@generaloranger6150 whatever dude. That was 22yrs ago. Bottom line the engine was blown. Don't need to be so self righteous behind your phone on UA-cam. Not that big a deal. Not like it came out of your pocket so what do you care?!?
I had one in a 96 Cavalier Z24, never had any issues with the engine up until I sold it with almost 100k miles on it. But GM may have fixed some of the issues with the earlier Quad 4s that were in the Olds models. Plus mine only put out 150 hp, vs. some of the Olds version that pushed close to 200hp. Maybe they were just cranking out too much HP for the engine to handle (although 200hp isn't shit by today's standards, it was a lot power back then for a NA four banger).
Is a rhetorical question. I understand why Oldsmobile disappeared: it competed with Buick for the same spot. However, Pontiac should have become the true sport car company. They had the G8. And there is a strong market for performance sedans. Look at Dodge and the Chrarger/Challenger. Right now, I can say that the only car in GM’s portfolio that I’m Interested is the Cadillac CT4.
When I watch the car flying by, the engine sounds nothing like a Quad-4, tbh. Sounds like a high-revving Superbike engine in such a degree, that I wonder if they changed engines for speed testing and showing off respectively! That Quad-8 looked great but I suspect it would be just as bad as the Quad-4. Why didn't GM learn from it while designing the Northstar? And I don't think GM divisions were just 5 back then. Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Pontiac, Saturn, GMC, GEO, Opel plus Hummer, SAAB and Daewoo a few years later, a total of 12 divisions!
Ray Boccino The street engines are capable of sounding like this. It just takes some time and cash to get it to this point. Raise the rev limiter up to 75-8500 and it screams.
There stuff in the 80s was garbage. i owned new vehicles from them in the 80s, later in 1996, and then in 2011. The 2011 gave me the least worries, the 90s car I owned from them was OK, the 80s car I purchased was a flaming pile of shit.
Oldsmobile spent all that R&D money and none of that stuff ever made it to the road. And Buicks were sold with more advanced tech. I liked Olds but I see why they’re long gone.
T455 true, but not like this. The irony is that all the stuff they were testing back then is commonplace now. Most cars come with 2 liter turbo fours these days. High end cars have turbo V8s. All this tech was probably too expensive for them to sell at an affordable price rate. A turbo Olds back then would have been at least $30K and that would be too expensive to sell against a Toyota Camry or Honda Accord.
Hard to fathom looking back at all the pomp & celebration of this poorly developed engine how much of GM and subsidiaries tanked. GM had the talent and prowess to produce something so much better. It is like their mission was to implode the company.
All this engineering exellence and 10 years later GM shuts them down. GM bean counters ruin everything. Chevrolet would have the same fate if it wasnt for their trucks
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These cars still hold many records that have not been broken, or even touched, in over 30 years. The Quad 4 is Americas most powerful 4 cylinder motor. Period. Thanks for the reupload, motorweek!
R.I.P. Oldsmobile
Olds research and development was in charge of the Northstar design. That quad 8 must’ve been some inspiration 🤔 too bad they didn’t get the head bolts right, the Northstar is an amazing engine when it’s running properly
E-boy2 2 Olds was in charge of the Quad 8, GM took over the project and ruined it.
The Olds QUAD 8 looks like earlier version of the Cadillac Northstar V-8
Kevin Guthrie And that is because it is. GM took over the design and completely fucked it up, giving us the northstar we hate today.
@@LrulestheworldM8 I disagree. The Northstar is a fine engine......to look at.
@@LrulestheworldM8 depends on the year
@@LrulestheworldM8 You are wrong. The Northstar is not related to the quad 8.
I thought the biggest problem with the Northstar was that they used tiny head studs or bolts. There's a company that sells a kit to bore and tap them out to put bigger ones in to solve that problem. But I guess you really have to love the car and the engine to do that.
It ain't your father's Oldsmobile, that's for sure.
Michael O'Keefe A+ sir nicely done
Or your grandfathers for tht matter..lol
There is a Special Feel in an Oldsmobile indeed
Love these old prototype videos!
267 mph?!?!!! Holy crap. Because it's 1980's Oldsmobile I wasn't expecting much. These speeds are comparable to Koenigsegg Agera RS, Bugatti Veyron/Chiron and Hennessey Venom. All from a QUAD 4 engine. Mind blown.
Ian Clancy That’s what i find hard to believe too. It takes the impressiveness out of the modern day cars you mentioned. It’s all marketing I suppose.
@@antiochiaadtaurum3786 what you think they did here? Lied about the engine, about the speed, about the shape of the Earth?
@@antiochiaadtaurum3786 Not really, building a race car and building a street car is worlds apart. Its hard to overstate just how different they are, even if they at first glance looks similar. If you are that impressed, they did 300 mph in special race cars, such as this is, back in the 1930s..
These cars were in my bedroom poster, I always wanted to know how they sound like, and they sound awesome.
DI ZAZZO for more sounds, there is a video on youtube called "record breakers". Its an in depth look at these cars and their motors.
I looked up for this video because I found my old matchbox version I used to play with as a kid. Now my kids play with it. So cool haha
Thank you for posting this Motorweek. I knew this video existed. It was great to see the Quad 8 and that turbocharged downsized Ninety Eight. I smiled. I look forward to more GM videos and footage. It is interesting to watch what could have been.
The season 7 part 1 live stream last week had this segment in one of the episodes. I'm glad they decided to post the segment as a retro review.
Let's just imagine that one day an entrepreneur starts up an Olds car company and we see some of the old models reborn. Just imagine a modern 442 or Cutlass.
If I could go back in time, I'd tell the Olds engineers that there is a future in push rod v8s. Imagine what a modern 350r or 455 would run like.
This is what made me the automotive weirdo I am today. I had a poster of the Aerotec on my wall as a kid, and a poster of the Beretta GTZ that had the quad 4 in it (one of the cutaway drawings). I dreamed of owning one of the Calais 442's but by the time I got to where I could afford one, they were all rusted away. The closest I got was a quad 4 swapped into a Cutlass Ciera with a 5 speed that I ran some autocross events with. I always wanted to do a cutlass coupe with that drivetrain (or the f40 6 speed) as a daily driver. Maybe one day.
I can still remember this car, along with the Indy Corvette, from my Wheels And Wings collection booklet.
Anyone else think this is way more rad and looks better than a McLaren speedtail? or is it just me?
Just you.
Yeah pretty much just you...
I like that shit bro you ain't alone king
This looks way better than the speedtail
Just you! The Speedtail has simple lines too, something modern McLaren vehicles lack!
Watching the video, it amazes me how long Rock Auto and Tire Rack have been around, now!
Had a 2 door 89 grand am once with the 2.3 quad 4. I swore someone beefed it up. It was killing v8s all day, for about 2 weeks. Oh the summer of 2001.
🤣🤣🤣👌👌👌
It was pretty easy to kill any production V8 in 2001 lol. Production cars, performance cars rather really only got serious in the past 7 years from the US. We're still recovering from the CAFE regulations and the oil crisis of the 70's.
GM makes good power, always has
I remember seeing this car at the Chicago Auto Show. A true beauty
It’s the Speedtail in its time.
I immediately thought of the McLaren Speedtail and Saleen S7 seeing this beauty.
That “QUAD 8” would have been awesome it even looked sexy.
I love the retro review with the beretta tho the quad in that one looked and sounded awesome especially the fwd burnout !!!
Didn’t the quad 8 eventually spawn the 4 liter engine in the olds aurora?
@@brantisonfire Yes, and the Cadillac Northstar.
This would have made a killer Group C racecar.
Oh, boy! If that 5.0 liter Quad 8 V8 had been produced, Oldsmobile might still be around today. That would have been some engine. Imagine the Aurora with a 300hp Quad 8 V8 engine. I can and it sounds awesome.
I miss Oldsmobile. Quality, stylish and affordable.
Favorite car of all time.
1:16
...That wild looking, tubular aluminum intake manifold. 👍
Used to always see these intake manifolds all over the shop floor, near the collection of random drivetrains, at the salvage yard I always went to for parts when I was a teenager.
I loved the way they look. (Still do)
Kick ass!🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼. I used to watch these on Sunday mornings before church
I came here because I had a model kit of of the Oldsmobile Aerotech back in the 1990's. I did a crappy job of building it, but it was always awesome to me.
Still got the Matchbox car
I lost mine 😥
Bro
I lost the short and long ones I had. They were orange. 😪
So oldsmobile was making 800hp plus 4 cylinders
When Ferrari and Lamborghini 400hp v12s humm interesting
Can't compare an actual race car to a production car lol.
I mean, the Gr. B rally cars made about 500-600 HP in the 80's with many being 1.8 I4 engines ( legend has it that when Lancia was testing the Delta S4, which had a turbo _and_ a supercharger, they set the boost pressure to max on both and it made 1000 HP, and it was just a 1.8 4 pot ! )
GM has always had great engineers, just terrible managers
At the peak of the Formula 1 "Turbo Era", they had 1.5 liter 4-cylinder cars turning turning out 1300-1500hp, at 5.5 bar (~80psi) of turbo boost in qualifying trim. They were dialed back to ONLY 1000hp in race trim...
@@DarkHumorWritesItself You receive the asshole post of the day award.
I'd kill to have Doug Demuro review this with Ed Wellburn.
Now we know the inspiration for the latest McLaren.
Okay, so an American car company back in the early 90s was able to brake 250 miles an hour and then immediately thereafter break 260 miles an hour but everyone thinks that the McLaren F1 was the first car to ever hit 240 miles an hour. And that the Bugatti Veyron is the first car to ever hit 250 miles an hour. Granted they are production vehicles but I just want to take a moment to recognize that America kicks ass and we did that long before the Brits or the French ever thought about
1987
Although the car is VERY impressive, it isn't a production car.
Sorry but if we are talking non street legal cars doing 250+ mph they already did that in the 1930s, so yeah. I am as patriotic as the next guy but this is not one of the great achievments of the US. It sure looks cool though.
Got a matchbox toy of this I had in 80s cool to see it in footage form , McLaren looked at this when making speed tale
God if they put it into production, Olds would survive.
Siempre me gusto este coche en todos los sentidos,un verdadero misil sobre ruedas. Que pena esta marca dejara de hacer casos
I still have the old 1/24 scale Monogram model kit. You can build it as the Short Tail or Long version. And the Matchbox!
I had a 1991 Oldsmobile Calais. one of the best car I had.
I wonder where these cars are at now. And what the value would be
Currently sitting in the REO Olds museum, and GM heritage center. However, some engines have made it out into ths public. I know of one that is currently residing in a garage in upstate new york.
My cutlass Calais with the quad 4 never ran numbers like that. But with that being said, when you are 18 ish and late to work it got the job done
Would love to see 1988 fiero review
Oldsmobile was completely squandered. yes I know they came out with the Aurora V8 but that 5 liter quad-8 would have been even more powerful. If they would have done that Oldsmobile might still be around today. I always really liked them as a brand and yes they were always very advanced on technology him and they always tried to stand out amongst the other GM brands. Very disappointing that nothing else was done with them..
I used to sit in this car when I was a kid.
If they have allowed this to go into production, this might have saved the Oldsmobile brand.
🤣🤣🤣
It really could have, especially the turbo quad 4 versions of the oldsmobile 88 and 98, they could have created a market segment of fast luxury cars that is very prevalent today
i had a poster of one of these on my wall as a kid! actully my walls were nothing but posters and cut out picures of super cars and muscle cars and framed pics my dad took at nascar races that we would take with our pit passes to get autographed
Greetings from the international space station!
Wooowwwww!!! That's so cool!
Did that Quad 8 become the Northstar?
The quad 8 became the northstar v8 used on the Cadillac!
my god! this car is insane.. never heard of it. is it from another planet? or, with this speed, is it plannin to fly away from here?
Got a 2.4 Twin Cam ( heavily revised. Quad 4) in my 2001 Z24. Bought it new and now have 209k on it. Great engine, never changed anything on it. Have done over 60 oil changes on it.
Made in Lansing, Michigan. Off Logan and 496, just outside down town.
That blade is the latest in anti-tailgater technology
What a beautiful body it had!
This makes me so sad to watch. If GM just let Olds do their own thing, they would still be around today. Badge engineering killed them.
Long before the Veyron or Mcleran F1
Race car vs. street cars.....
It's just a shame that the Quad 4 ended up eating head gaskets like I eat Wegman's chocolate chip cookies!!!!!!! 2:40...........I always felt that the Quad 8, had it gone into production, would have been a MUCH more appropriate engine for the Ninety-Eight than the Quad 4 Turbo.
Are Wegman's chocolate chip cookies really that good?
I don't live within walking distance of a Wegmans, so I've had to make do with the Shopper's brand, which are actually pretty good themselves.
landyachtfan79 the head gasket issue is a very common misconception, spread by word by inexperienced mechanics. This was, in fact, a condensation issue. NOT head gaskets.
Oh, THEY ARE, @@blairbrown4812!!!!!!!!
A teardrop is the most aerodynamic shape
Neat car, but I like the Dodge M4S more. Cooler looking and it puts itself back together when crashed.
The McLaren Speedtail
I wonder how similar the "Quad 8" would have been to the Northstar? Both would be 4.6 DOHC v8's that farted out 300hp!
Olds Quad 8 was only 4.0L and fair bit more reliable than the Northstar.
The second bit is just my opinion though.
@@Michaelation08 I'm having a Mandela effect moment. I could swear the prototype was 4.6!
@@bradnimbus4836 nah you're right. Lol I was thinking about the L47 Olds V8 in the Aurora's and Shelby One
The Quad 8 IS the north star.
One of the only fast cars on the retro review
why this never gone to lemans???
🤣🤣🤣 this aint no racing car...its only for top speed
It competed in lemans with the Quad8/North Star motor out of the aurora. It was outfitted with working headlights and tail lights.
@@hondamanvtec2894 Research its history, it did.
Although its has a sport-prototype body style, the chassis is from a indycar so you couldn't adapt it to run on Group C or IMSA GTP.
Yah but it didn't save the Oldsmobile a year later they were gone.
I wonder if any of that technology they were talking about, made it into my 1994 oldsmobile cutlass supreme, thing is pretty quick. But then again it's GM so i doubt it
Nah dude, both the 3.1 and 3.4 DOHC were Chevy derived engines.
Looks vaguely like the jaguar xj220
2001 Monolithic the Jaguar xj220 is a sexy Beast !!!
Dear lord this was in 1987
I don't know why the Quad4 had to have such a bad distributorless ignition. Other GM cars had multiple 2 tower ignition coils, and that system worked really well.
Nearly every maker is using the same thing with individual coils.
The problem with that was that half of the spark energy was lost on the cylinder on the exhaust stroke when it fired.
@@vector6977 it wasnt "lost", thats called waste spark ignition. it was extremely common then and still somewhat is now. it helps to burn excess fuel.
the Quad4 had extremely powerful ignition coils, 40,000V each. thats the reason those engines didnt like the first gen platinum plugs that fit it. the teeny amount of platinum overheated which caused misfires and preignition. you had to use a step colder plug if using platinums back then.
heat was the culprit of the Quad4s ignition system. the coils and controle module were pretty reliable, it was the ignition coil housing itself that generally failed. it generally cracked and the result was misfires and tell-tale carbon tracks up the housing.
it was a pain but a new housing was only $40 and took less than 15 minutes to replace. it was annoying but at least it wasnt expensive or difficult to diagnose/repair.
The og mclaren speedtail and the koenigsegg back then
So this was faster than the later F1 and Veyron SuperSport
That's phenomenal at 267 and yes I'm aware of the sledge but this is a totally different animal.... If what MW is saying to be true then a 2 litre 4 produced 1100 plus hp in what year? Where did we go wrong? All the while mass production with an 180 hp variant has to have been government regulated.(PERIOD)
Wrap your mind around that for just a moment....
Can you imagine Olds maybe rebranding, anything to stay in the game under corporate regulations to buy some time...
Again a 4 cylinder making 1100 plus hp, and running speeds of 267 .... these are Bugatti numbers with a 4 cylinder 🤣😅😂
Too bad they decided not to support the Quad-4 midget program developed in Oklahoma by Edwin Wilson.. It wound up being the impetus for the Ford Focus midget program, but Olds didn't want to play in that arena :(
That Aerotech Quad4 had a bit more power than my 1989 Pontiac Grand Am lol. If only GM would have produced the Quad8 instead of the boat anchor Northstar....🙄
It looks a bit like John Cobb's Railton Special.
300 hp from a v8 😯 🤯
Also at the time, A Honda 2.3L V6 had 150 hp, that same as the regular Quad 4.
A Ferrari flat-12 (Testarossa) had 385 hp.
Wasn't this in a movie???
No. Never.
Paint it black, add the Joker and we good.
isnt this basically a hypercar?
Qad 4 powerful motor
Quad 4 was JUNK!!! Had it in my 92 Grand Prix. Always had computer and timing issues, and finally the timing belt snapped, trashing the motor. Again... JUNK!!!!
No timing belt, always was a chain.
@@mcqueenfanman nope you're wrong. Costed me $3k to find that out
There was no timing belt in Quad 4s... Mechanic screw you over bro.
@@generaloranger6150 whatever dude. That was 22yrs ago. Bottom line the engine was blown. Don't need to be so self righteous behind your phone on UA-cam. Not that big a deal. Not like it came out of your pocket so what do you care?!?
I had one in a 96 Cavalier Z24, never had any issues with the engine up until I sold it with almost 100k miles on it. But GM may have fixed some of the issues with the earlier Quad 4s that were in the Olds models. Plus mine only put out 150 hp, vs. some of the Olds version that pushed close to 200hp. Maybe they were just cranking out too much HP for the engine to handle (although 200hp isn't shit by today's standards, it was a lot power back then for a NA four banger).
What happened to the GM of the 80’s?
The 80's....
The 90s happened.
It started in the 70s 😆👎🏻
Is a rhetorical question. I understand why Oldsmobile disappeared: it competed with Buick for the same spot. However, Pontiac should have become the true sport car company. They had the G8. And there is a strong market for performance sedans. Look at Dodge and the Chrarger/Challenger. Right now, I can say that the only car in GM’s portfolio that I’m Interested is the Cadillac CT4.
@@josemanuelruiz2036 GM didn't let Pontiac be Pontiac. It became a slightly sportier Chevy. Too bad.
When I watch the car flying by, the engine sounds nothing like a Quad-4, tbh. Sounds like a high-revving Superbike engine in such a degree, that I wonder if they changed engines for speed testing and showing off respectively!
That Quad-8 looked great but I suspect it would be just as bad as the Quad-4. Why didn't GM learn from it while designing the Northstar?
And I don't think GM divisions were just 5 back then. Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Pontiac, Saturn, GMC, GEO, Opel plus Hummer, SAAB and Daewoo a few years later, a total of 12 divisions!
Ray Boccino The street engines are capable of sounding like this. It just takes some time and cash to get it to this point. Raise the rev limiter up to 75-8500 and it screams.
@@LrulestheworldM8 Quite weird, actually!
Oh yes :)
❤
GM used to be good. Everything they sell now is garbage.
There stuff in the 80s was garbage. i owned new vehicles from them in the 80s, later in 1996, and then in 2011. The 2011 gave me the least worries, the 90s car I owned from them was OK, the 80s car I purchased was a flaming pile of shit.
Except for the camaro and the corvette
Oldsmobile spent all that R&D money and none of that stuff ever made it to the road. And Buicks were sold with more advanced tech. I liked Olds but I see why they’re long gone.
Well the QUAD 4 did make production at least.
T455 true, but not like this. The irony is that all the stuff they were testing back then is commonplace now. Most cars come with 2 liter turbo fours these days. High end cars have turbo V8s. All this tech was probably too expensive for them to sell at an affordable price rate. A turbo Olds back then would have been at least $30K and that would be too expensive to sell against a Toyota Camry or Honda Accord.
McLaren Speedtail - COPPIED !!!!!!
Omg a turbo on a quad 4 lol
Inspired by porsche917😊
Hard to fathom looking back at all the pomp & celebration of this poorly developed engine how much of GM and subsidiaries tanked. GM had the talent and prowess to produce something so much better. It is like their mission was to implode the company.
Speedtail
So that's where McLaren got it from.
And in 2020 a soccer mom runs GM.
Quad 4, brilliant on paper - horrible consumer experience.
Olds was the technology division of GM, unlike today where GM just pumps out another pickup truck or ugly SUV.
Or crossover like that 2021 Chevy Trailblazer
All this engineering exellence and 10 years later GM shuts them down. GM bean counters ruin everything. Chevrolet would have the same fate if it wasnt for their trucks
Bugatti Hunter
Jeeze and my sunfire sucked same engine
a great brand no longer available
Есть такие каналы на русском языке?
Motor weak
Ahhhhhh, back when GM sucked.
They still suck.
But they sucked then too.
As a marketing stunt, it sure was cool though