Post by 2001auroraenthusiasm on Jun 27, 2019 20:31:19 GMT -6
My name is Stephen Sullivan. I'm a musician, teacher, and writer from the US state of Indiana. My first car was a 1988 Cadillac DeVille DeLuxe, and it was pretty sweet, but since January of 2009 I have been the proud owner of a 2001 Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0, so over 10 years now. It's a white diamond color, and it's fully loaded except it only has a single-disc and cassette tape stereo, rather than the multi-disc stereo system. It also doesn't have native navigation, as some of the later ones did. It's got 145,000 miles on it.
Things I love about my car:
1. It can outmaneuver "better" cars, like some of the smaller Cadillacs, Buicks, and even some European cars from time to time. Three weeks ago, I was driving home in my Aurora, and suddenly a 2004 Pontiac Firebird TransAm veered into my lane on a state road just a few miles from home. Bright red with a huge 5.7 liter V8, and within a few feet from sideswiping me and knocking my car backwards, which would create a chain-reaction, multiple-cars involved, wreck. I gunned it and swerved around him at over 50 miles per hour and avoided all that from happening. I don't think I could have done that if I was also driving a 2004-era Pontiac Firebird like his. The car can almost literally thread a needle. Granted, a big needle, but still a needle.
2. It protected me when I was T-boned by a 2007 Chevrolet Impala ex-Sheriff's car in the Fall of 2014. The insurance evaluated the damage wrong, so even though my Aurora was totaled, they weren't aware of it. It took a few years for my car to be completely repaired, but finally from the Fall of 2017 to now, the car's been practically flawless. Not a scratch on me or the other driver.
3. It's great on snow and even ice. Not AWD or four-wheel-drive, but with that built-in traction control system and stability control, I haven't done much sliding around, even in the brutal Winter of 2013-14. It got stuck once in a snow bank near a school I was attending, the day after it was given to me in 2009, but I was able to wiggle out of it. Deep snow is trouble, but everything else is cake with this car.
4. The car almost never stalls or refuses to start. When I received the Aurora for my 20th birthday in 2009, it would do those things once-in-a-while, and it had engine problems in the Fall of 2017, which is why it was finally fully-repaired at that time, but at no other time has this been an issue. It's started in temperatures near 100 degrees Fahrenheit like it was nothing. It's started in temperatures near or below 0 degrees Fahrenheit.
5. It kicks ass on the road, even in the rain. It'll come out of a hydroplane in seconds. The car also gets great gas mileage during highway and long-distance driving, in all weather and most traffic conditions. Nobody likes driving on I-465, a looping interstate around the city of Indianapolis, but I don't need any "sport mode" there because my car does exactly what I want it to do, every time. Great car.
Things I love about my car:
1. It can outmaneuver "better" cars, like some of the smaller Cadillacs, Buicks, and even some European cars from time to time. Three weeks ago, I was driving home in my Aurora, and suddenly a 2004 Pontiac Firebird TransAm veered into my lane on a state road just a few miles from home. Bright red with a huge 5.7 liter V8, and within a few feet from sideswiping me and knocking my car backwards, which would create a chain-reaction, multiple-cars involved, wreck. I gunned it and swerved around him at over 50 miles per hour and avoided all that from happening. I don't think I could have done that if I was also driving a 2004-era Pontiac Firebird like his. The car can almost literally thread a needle. Granted, a big needle, but still a needle.
2. It protected me when I was T-boned by a 2007 Chevrolet Impala ex-Sheriff's car in the Fall of 2014. The insurance evaluated the damage wrong, so even though my Aurora was totaled, they weren't aware of it. It took a few years for my car to be completely repaired, but finally from the Fall of 2017 to now, the car's been practically flawless. Not a scratch on me or the other driver.
3. It's great on snow and even ice. Not AWD or four-wheel-drive, but with that built-in traction control system and stability control, I haven't done much sliding around, even in the brutal Winter of 2013-14. It got stuck once in a snow bank near a school I was attending, the day after it was given to me in 2009, but I was able to wiggle out of it. Deep snow is trouble, but everything else is cake with this car.
4. The car almost never stalls or refuses to start. When I received the Aurora for my 20th birthday in 2009, it would do those things once-in-a-while, and it had engine problems in the Fall of 2017, which is why it was finally fully-repaired at that time, but at no other time has this been an issue. It's started in temperatures near 100 degrees Fahrenheit like it was nothing. It's started in temperatures near or below 0 degrees Fahrenheit.
5. It kicks ass on the road, even in the rain. It'll come out of a hydroplane in seconds. The car also gets great gas mileage during highway and long-distance driving, in all weather and most traffic conditions. Nobody likes driving on I-465, a looping interstate around the city of Indianapolis, but I don't need any "sport mode" there because my car does exactly what I want it to do, every time. Great car.