don't remember this OLDS?? any help?

[knarrful]

O.K....I think it was in the 80's but could be early 90's..but it was a small or midsize sedan..kinda like the first Grand Ams...same body style...but I think it was called .......... Calais....and no not a CUTLASS calais....it was a different nameplate...but it was only made for a couple of years....somebody must know?

[caddyman379]

i think your talking about the oldsmobile omega?

[W-44Olds]

Was it a trofeo ?

[newscarver]

i have seen somthing called a firenza,also ciera at the bottom of the oldsmobile gene pool ,i think the trofeo was up there with the toranado....the omega was seventies although it may have reappeared

[RocketPowerParts]

YES! - The Oldsmobile Calais, this is the car they created the Quad 442 out of.... Firenza was early 80's, Trofeo was 80's and 90's but remember that this car was a Toronado..., and the Omega (Imitation Crappy NOVA), when did that thing die?... No Loss. The Calais was Oldmobiles attempt at competing with Pontiac's Grand Am.

[joe_a_buaiz]

In 1980, the Omega was completely re-designed, into a front-wheel-drive, enonomy car, a twin of the Buick Skylark and/or Century of that time. It was discontinued in 1984. I drive a 1980 Omega, and I have no complaints.

---Joe

[Hollowcreek]

The Calais was introduced at the same time as the Grand Am and the then Buick Somerset (84 or so) and was just called Calais. For some strange reason Olds felt it necessary to add the Cutlass name to three differernt models in '85 (Calais, Ciera and the original supreme). The Calais was renamed the Achieva when then platform got new sheet metal in '93.

There was also an Omega X Body (same platform as Chevy Citation) that replaced the aforementioned crappy fake nova in 1980. This also came in a two and four door sedan that did not have the hatchback styling of the Citation.

There was also a Cavalier / Sunbird clone called the Firense and I believe something else too.

[joe_a_buaiz]

Remember the part where I said I have no complaints? I have a complaint now.
I mentioned earlier somewhere, that the transmission went bad.
The chain was skipping, so I decided that I might be able to replace the chain without removing the transmission from the car. I took off the valve cover, then the valve body, and what I saw could make a grown man cry: I was looking at the threaded ends of two bolts, that were installed from inside the bell-housing. [If there was an icon of a 'smiley' holding a gun to his head, it would be here.] Anyhow, I pulled the engine, then the transmission, and had the damn thing completely rebuilt, so I won't have to look at it again for a while.
I'd like to find out who designed that thing, dig him up, bring him back to life, and then kill him. "Why do you assume that he's dead?" you ask. Well, after designing something like that, most likely he's already been killed a few times.

---Joe