
Episode 133: Oldsmobile Diesels
Well There‘s Your Problem
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The Irony of the Diesel V8
The bitter irony in all of this is that by 1981, 82, the diesel V8 is actually mostly fixed. The old mobile that I drove was an 81, which is probably the only reason it was still running but they also sold like 10 of them that year. Because basically the diesel badge and a GM was pure toxic waste. Nobody wanted to get near those fucking things. So, you know, by 85, they've got this beautiful new V6. They just came out with three years earlier and like we're canning everything. Yeah, let's never do it again. And that was it.
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