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Your WTF Moment For The Day: 1990s Oldsmobile 88 Pretends It’s A Sportscar At Autocross Event

Ahh, autocross. A safe way for enthusiasts to take to the track, or even parking lot, and clock their best times in nearly any car depending on the standards your local organization goes by. We’re not entirely sure where a 1990s era Oldsmobile 88 falls, but someone decided to humor the driver and let him rip.

The strangest part about this video? The Oldsmobile 88 doesn’t do half bad. Clean lines are present throughout the entire lap, although those tires sounds very upset at the driver’s antics. For a car that was designed for cloud-like front-wheel drive feel and was placed with a ho-hum 3800 V6, on a modern-day meme scale, we give this driver a “Not Bad Obama Face.”

Surely if our beloved machines could talk, this Olds has to be screaming “I’m really a 442, I am!” Forgetting about the four-barrel, four-on-the-floor, dual exhaust, this Oldsmobile 88 says understeer be damned.

Props to this guy putting this maroon Oldsmobile 88 in the mind frame of Oldsmobile 442. Check out the video for yourself right down below.

Former GM Authority staff writer.

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  1. Good driver… Tons of understeer. I feel sorry for the front tires.

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  2. He did great! I doubt a C7 could knock off that much time of his. (lol) At least the hubcaps didn’t pop off!

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  3. Now there is a guy that can drive!

    Slow-shifting automatic! Floaty ride! Front-wheel drive! Large and heavy sedan!! Let’s see the kids today try to drive it like that… They get overwhelmed parking a Kia!

    By the way, the Olds 88 styling is timeless.

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    1. I like the design. Wish GM would evolve concept for use at Chevrolet.

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  4. Thank you for sharing this video. It says something in a positive way about the cars Oldsmobile once built. It handled it well. I wonder how things would have worked with the Eighty Eight LSS sport package or model that was offered.

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