Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera

Start with what the Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera is: a 2-door coupe (1982–1991) / 4-door sedan (car) / sedan (1982–1996) / 4-door station wagon (1984–1996) with 2.2&nbsp, built from 1981 to 1996, in the age of turbocharging and the first electronic engine management. What it meant takes a little longer.

The background

The Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera is a mid-size car manufactured and marketed for model years 1982–1996 by the Oldsmobile Division of General Motors—over a single generation. Body styles included a 2-door coupe, 4-door sedan, and the 4-door wagon. The Cutlass Ciera shared the front-wheel drive A platform with the Buick Century, Pontiac 6000 and Chevrolet Celebrity.

The engineering

The engine is 2.2  other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Drive goes through a Turbo-Hydramatic 125 / GM TH-125C 3-speed Automatic transmission / automatic / Turbo-Hydramatic 125#Turbo-Hydramatic 440-T4 / GM 440-T4 4-speed automatic / GM 4T60 transmission / G. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 104.9 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.

Where it sits

In the Oldsmobile line-up the Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera has a clear place: it replaced the Oldsmobile Cutlass; it handed the line to the Oldsmobile Cutlass (U.S. only); the factory was Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Toyota Camry, the Porsche 944, the Opel Corsa. Its Oldsmobile stablemates include the Oldsmobile 442 and the Oldsmobile 88.

Owning one today

There is no federal ownership record for the Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.