Even worse was the 5-speed Z34 that came into the shop with a bad alternator. It was new product that appealed to people that reversed the trend. I recall that she actually got 95k out of the rear tires – they were only replaced due to dry rotting and still had their factory tread almost fully intact. That and everyone’s comments are set to PST. The Lumina was the only available vehicle when I pulled a two-week stint in New Orleans, working on an acquisition of a failed S&L. But the Chevy lineup just had an air of cheapness about it as you gazed into or sat into one of those interiors. Chrysler undoubtedly alienated a lot of old time customers with the minivans. GM’s problem was one of insularity and entitlement. The whole Toyota experience of 09-10 has been incorporated into many automotive management history courses now along with GM, and VW of the early 90s. Right engine splash shield. Available styles include Euro 2dr Coupe, 4dr Sedan, 2dr Coupe, Z34 2dr Coupe, and Euro 4dr Sedan. I can see why GM thought that they would get 21% of market share; when you combine the outgoing A bodies plus G body sales in peak years, that would make sense. Most of the W-cars were built with the 3.1s in those years but they are larger and heavier than the Cavaliers, other than the 3.4DOHC, there wasn’t a larger V6 available in the early 90s except for the 3.8 Buick V6, which indeed found its way into W cars towards the end of that body’s cycle. My ex bvought the last new 2003 grand Prix at our local dealer. So all in all, I’d say that the General is still hit and miss with their new cars, but they are definitely making nicer interiors. I do own a new(ish) Nissan (2012 Altima) and find it atheistically pleasing in a non-offensive kind of way. My impression is that Ford, around 1982, really got religion after losing over 1.5 Billion (one of the largest losses in the entire corporate world recorded at that point) in 1980 and another Billion in 1981. Try Hertz. I’m surprised no one has mentioned that huge rear spoiler, which to me is the signature of this car. I never spent much time with them even when I was selling Chevys (in the early 90’s) but experiencing them later did bring about an appreciation. The “problem” with the Colonnades is that they are always compared to the higher standards of today’s buyers. Easy to use parts catalog. I pitched a story to Paul about doing an article on airbags, but something on seatbelts might be fun. The springs wouldn’t nest nicely on the magnet banks, some of them would decide that no, they didn’t really want to stick to the magnets and fall off. Not that they were incredibly unreliable, but the folks I know who owned these were usually second, third or even fourth owners. Some vehicles may be considered “matching numbers” vehicles. Except for the newly refreshed (of an old platform) R-body cars for 1979, all of Chryslers RWD vehicles were aging and they did not have the money to invest in updating them, with the trend toward FWD (in the mass market anyways) being the accepted philosophy of the day. It was really nice not to have to buckle your belt each time you got in to drive. This 1992 Chevrolet Lumina Z34 is an exceedingly hard-to-find manual transmission model and sought after by collectors of Chevy’s few performance models from the early 90s. Even the Toyota store where I normally worked sold more pickups and FourRunners than cars. But no W bodies. Note: This column does not represent a “100 Point” or “# 1” vehicle*. Its since been replaced with a 3rd genration escort with the hubcaps spray painted blue. Chevrolet Lumina Z34, 1991-1994. (At least ones that were not heavily managed by the government). I could go on and on. Soon enough, GM would be fighting for a 21% market share for the whole company, never mind mid-sized cars. The Euro Celebrity, I later found out had a four cylinder engine. When asked by Fortune why GM10 was such a catastrophe, Smith replied, “I don’t know. If anything, executive management of Toyota is ever more insular than GM ever was the executive ranks in Japan are still dominated by the family, only Ford (and to a much lesser extent), has any real influence from its original founders on the US side. Did they have redeeming qualities? Using the jacking fixture, lower the rear of the frame. A $ is a $ and if someone wants it they will buy it. Even compared to the Cutlass Supreme my parents owned at the time, the steering felt loose and watery, and damping was marginal at best. the market was filled with choices that were interesting at the time. Searching Locally. Stuck in a S-10 and they were quiet, at least the exhaust note. I was literally sweating bullets as I threw it back into park, cranked the ignition switch and prayed it would restart…and continued the routine of stopping, stalling, and restarting at every stop light between there and my hotel on Poydras. © 2020 J.D. I suppose that is why most of the European exotic cars are more popular on the coasts than anywhere else, not just because of concentration of wealth but prestige is subjective. Must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Search. So the Big 3s fall from 90% of the market to 50% of the market should really be of nose surprise, and has been brought on not just in product design but a confluence of various events domestic and worldwide. It was a great car for 110K miles until its untimely demise. As good a product as they may be, I would hate to be stuck having to choose between a Hyundai Sonata, a Toyota Camry, or a Mercedes S class all decently built cars but rather uninspiring for someone with a car personality. My wife has an 08 GP. I woke up about 7am and I usually check the BB to make sure there are not any emergencies waiting for me and saw this update. I’ve always wanted to drive one of these Eurosport variants to see how well GM had allowed the engineers to sort it out. I wish I did. They had some sort of forward-bending arc to the shape of the door frame. The mileage was 33 MPG.I have faithfully changed the oil and filter every 3000 miles, as I do all my vehicles. 0 found 1991 listings within 25 miles of your ZIP code. And that interior. The exhaust burble, the sharper steering and handling. Search. The speedometer from day one would periodically quit and spring back to life once slapped on the dash above. I did not know about the Grapevine and at that moment I was cresting it. As it turned out it wasn’t that big a deal, since they needed much fewer parts than they expected but the parts plant where this happened now sits empty and for sale. Like tail fins or square headlights. Blech! IDK. Everything on the car worked just like it did in 1969. Save $218 on Used Chevrolet Lumina Z34 for Sale. The winner? All the materials I’ve ever seen suggest that they did some deep soul-searching and realized they needed to be building the best. Personally, I do not care for the look of the Luminas. Lumina coupe sales were always much smaller, which perhaps explains why the gen2 version cynically was given the Monte Carlo name. The market for coupes like this was only so large. Although, believe it or not, the Malibu had the nicer interior. The coupe was only made from 90-94. “GM had the whole seat belt apparatus in the door…”. I’m sure I’m not the only one, but I’ve known folks who have had Luminas go 300K+ miles. GM, like AT&T in the phone world, and IBM in the electronics world, were behemoths like the world has never seen. I love my 1991 Euro 3.1.. I’ve owned it 3 years and it has never let me down. It was supposed to make up to 270hp in the highest performance versions. All the Japanese consumer electronics companies are suffering now because of the rise of the Koreans. 3-series chaser, anyone ? Generator to engine fasteners. I was thinking about whether or not I consider this car a deadly sin when I realized that it was probably the car being promoted when it became an odd thing in my world to drive a GM sedan. Strange decision for a family sedan. If you got impatient, the belt would lock up halfway out, and you had to reel it back in and start over. I love the styling and I believe the styling still looks great today. And I was impressed by its heater, much, much better than the one in my Maxima. Oh that suspension was awful. To 13 year old GM loyalist me, this NEW car seemed elderly and tired. . The problem is not that they put off the old customers. The idea was to leave the seat belt plugged in all the time and slip in between the two portions of belt as you entered the car. The adverserial relationship between management and labor contributed greatly to the poor quality and overall lame effort of some of these cars. Presumably someone did. There was no keyless entry. Outward visibility due to the low beltline – I found that quite attractive. In fact, the base models drove better, this being a relative term for a car that didn’t drive very well. Time has proven that we made the right choice. The car was fairly reliable for the five years and 75k that my dad had it, but just as he was getting ready to sell it it developed a rod knock. Really. “Honda can’t survive on just 3 cars” [Accord/Prelude/Civic]. Just…wow. Door handles integrated into the B-pillar were another GM styling gimmic that they thought would get customers in the door. Sundown caught us north of LA and at one point soon after darkness set in I noticed that the car was slowing down dramatically even with my foot deeper into the gas. The Euro name finally means something, although not used on the Z34. Back in 1991, GM announced they were going to close either Arlington or Ypsilanti both of which built RWD chassis. Forgettable. Call me crazy, but I’be always secretly lusted after one of these, especially in the “Euro” or Z34 trim. Door-mounted seatbelts. It is no secret that the Honda Accord was largely the same mechanically and structurally (even if the body changed) from 1982-1997. Being “Chevy Country”. Valiants were cheap. The ’95 refresh of the Lumina seemed like GM conceding that they would never be able to compete with the imports in this segment and were content to live on fleet sales and loyalist diehards. (I may step into it a bit with this statement but understand the logic) One of the arguments that I used in supporting the bailout of GM and Chrysler a few years ago was the preservation of choice in the marketplace. I bought a brand new Lumina Euro 3.1 in April 0f 1991 and I still have it today. That would have cut costs by eliminating a lot of platform duplication. All of that culminated in the admission by Toyota Chief Akio Toyota that the corporate lost its way somewhat in its old philosophy of “Safety, Quality, Volume” and a memo circulated among senior management that was eerily reminiscent of the Ford Pinto memos of the 1970s. It quickly developed an iffy reputation; good luck finding one still running anymore. These were cars that could have – and should have – been good, but cost-cutting and various other factors made them end up wholly average and unimpressive. Those three roughly have the same marketshare as GM, Ford, Chrysler did twenty five years ago. Worst of all, GM caught wind of our problems and decided that magnetizing brake parts was a bad idea and forbade the supplier to use the system. The car seemed cheap and floppy, and the doors slammed cheaply . Beretta did well, for a couple of years, with ‘kids’ along with Grand Ams. Granted, my dad is known for abusing the shit out of cars and I know he killed at least one engine in the Lumina by never changing the oil, and that the dealership refused to replace it under warranty so he ended up having to trade in our little fiberglass boat to a mechanic for a replacement. 24 Results. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I remember car shopping with my high school friend during the mid 90’s. Made to compete with the ford taurus SHO of the same era, the chevy lumina z34 was one of the most underrated performance GM cars of the early 90s. The rest were content to building cars that served small purposes. 12. Uh…NOT. While real middies are called ‘full’ or ‘premium’ size. Not so easy to do in practice even for the limberest teenager. Electrical connector at generator. Problems arise when you both turn off your existing customer base AND do not attract new ones. I found very interesting the contrast between California and the East coast… Florida, Kentucky, and the Northeast where I spent my time in those years were literally chock full of these cars. When I squint my eyes, I can still see a little of that “floaty” looking long front overhang on the outgoing Impalas, which, apart from that, are decently styled vehicles.. I always always always wear my seat belt but there are occasional days when it takes me about 5 miles before I reach back to put it on. I always find it funny how people who decide to modify base Mustangs and such always futility aim at duplicating a V8 rumble with a thousand dollars worth of LT headers, high flow cats(or deletion), mandrel bent X pipes, mufflers ect, ect, only to sound like a the typical ricers they lament anywhere off idle. The salesman was certified crazy, and actually scared me more than once during the test drive. You already knew that this is NOT a car on my bucket list. Air date 10.6.1990 The Used 1991 Chevrolet Lumina is offered in the following submodels: Lumina Sedan, Lumina Coupe. They simply convinced themselves, “if we build it, they will buy it,” which their absurd sales projections show. It could be a completely restored or an extremely well-maintained original vehicle showing very minimal wear. It was hard to believe that this was the same company that once made a 65-70 Impala and Caprice, the Chevelle, the Camaro, the Corvette and Blazer. Dad ended up later buying a ’95 Olds Cutlass Supreme, which had much better styling inside and out than the Lumina and felt like a much better car. I have also read the lengthy memo that Elmer Johnson wrote around the time he quit in the late 80s GM management was disintegrating, and its managers were increasingly stuck in a system that walled them off from the outside world. Ford has done this, as well as Chrysler, on a smaller scale. The biggest thing I can describe about the GM10 platform, and GM in general, maybe because of their size, is that usually whenever they bet, they bet big. My uncle’s father who owned an Olds dealership until 1996 always believed Olds was lost because of the poor reception of the Cutlass and the 88/98. Actually its not bad in a basic transportation kinda way. No wonder there seem to be so many gen1 Luminas still on the streets. The non-Euro version seemed so much more bland to me – but that was such a great trip and to this day any time I see a Lumina I think of smelling the Pacific Ocean and the scenery along 17-Mile Drive. And GM’s management was lacking in too many areas, including their endless efforts to be both progressive and conservative at the same time. PRODUCT, if you make something people want, they will buy it, often lumps and all. The coastal people, especially California, like to be different, non conformist, and feel like they operate on higher level thinking (even if they don’t) and well buying a bread and butter car that is popular with the masses in Middle America isn’t going to cut it. I wonder how long those plastic idler pulleys last…. After spending peanuts on the Fox-body aero-bird, Ford grossly overspent on its replacement, and struggled with its profitability.  Nothing like success to breed expensive mistakes. The first time I checked the mileage, I thought there had to be a mistake. Like new with only 23,000 miles on it!. Hindsight confirms that the risk of alienating the old Newport buyer was well worth it (and very necessary). The Lumina was a desperate effort to play catch-up with Ford’s runaway hit Taurus as well as to parry with the Camry and Accord; the result was predictably dim. We haven’t said a word so far about the Lumina’s styling. Did the thirteenth floor have NO ONE with the integrity to speak up for the customer’s interests? Right around the time the ME/Peace/love and understanding over coddled baby boomers started to get into the work force, in the 70’s right around the time the WWII generation started to retire, coincidence? In the small town in Minnesota where I went to high school this was the h.s. car of choice circa 1998. By the late 00s the automakers were in trouble again due primarily to the duopoly of the recession and the decline of SUVs (and renewed emphasis on fuel economy) brought on by the rise in worldwide energy prices. I used to work with one such guy who was ready to replace his wife’s LeSabre with another. Also, ignored Lexus, Acura, and Infiniti, by dissmissing them as ‘too small’. Please Note The Following Vehicle Location is at our clients home and Not In Cadillac, Michigan. My dad bought a first year Lumina Euro sedan in light blue. There’s no doubt that many Luminas gave good service to their owners; much more so than to its maker. 2 listings Now in many ways I loved it, it was plenty quick and comfortable. Well disappointment number two was on its way. GM has not really turned that corner, from where I sit. It’s like the front end was three times heavier than its suspension was tuned to balance. I tend to think that GM has been TOO radical in their designs probably because as the lead automaker for most of automotive’s history, they were always looked upon as the maker that had to do the big stuff. IMO, the Lumina was probably the weakest of them, while the ’88-’90 Oldsmobiles were my favorite. So it is no surprise that the three cars that I own and drive regularly are a 2010 Camaro SS, 93 Century Wagon (with wood), and a 2008 CTS. The first time I checked the mileage, I thought there had to be a mistake. I have never driven one but I did have a rental Celebrity Euro from the previous generation, for a week. View All. I never thought it about it much when selling them, but the low, low beltline and airy interior rivaled any contemporary Honda of the time. The Lumina coupe never sold that well relative to the sedan (e.g., in 1991 roughly 36,000 were produced versus 160,000 for the sedan). 10. It has 161K on it. Not just because the had better cars, but because they were the only ones making cars. I later had a 96 GP coupe. Ford had set the standard with the 1986 Taurus and that’s what GM was still aiming at in the early 90’s when Honda, Nissan and Toyota were all really raising the bar for midsize sedans. But still…. I found the 2 door more attractive than the Chevy Beretta. Great car. That’s exactly HOW GM got where it is; and why I for one am content to leave it to die in the gutter. Cheap feeling fabrics, plastics, carpets and headliners, Cheap feeling and cheap looking switches and gauges. I remember reading an article in a car mag when the 3.4 DOHC was being introduced to compete with the SHO. More funny is that I traded in a 2011 Malibu for it, which was a lemon that I couldn’t wait to be rid of. That was different from most other cars, and made the cabin feel very airy, it was too much for my tastes then, I liked wrap-around cockpit styling, but I can see why bigger people would find it more roomy. GM got spoiled by its loyal customers, and because there were so many of them, it of course did not make sense to alienate any of them. 17. And yes, I do find the 2011 Malibu to be a huge improvement over a ’91 Lumina. Mine went like a hundred or so miles after 60K. It ain’t just fleets that like simple and cheap! If it weren’t due to the fact they were more expensive than I could afford at the time, we may have bought one instead of our beloved Acclaim. Everyone expected GM to close Arlington but Arlington won because the UAW offered a sweetheart deal that made GM take a second look. Well it was a case of having to have some sort of passive restraint but airbags still being to expensive, much less dual airbags, GM started to put airbags in Cadlillacs and the Corvette first, later they started to filter down through the line up. Search car listings & find the right car for you Click here for 1991 Chevrolet Lumina Z34 2 Door Coupe local listings. the coastal mentality. It just had a general overall cheap feeling to it. Had they been, those old customers would have come back and gotten used to them. So much stuff, in such a tight space . 12m/12k warranty. You’re talking about the UAW. It has been completely and absolutely reliabe for 80K miles and consistantly gets 25+mpg. The 1974 Chrysler belts were the worst. It instantly joined its smaller brother Corsica as the very icons of fleet queens, a title its W-Body successors defended right to the present. In some ways, it almost hertz to see it go. Wow, you hate GM as much as I hate my older brother! PCH was crowded with tourists in RVs and other cumbersome contrivances making any effort at spirited driving futile. However, once the project was greenlighted, especially after the 1984 reorganization, the program was largely oversaw by Lloyd Reuss. Well I have no idea who if anyone in particular was responsible for the GM10 program, most likely a committee and ideas were passed around. And selling any Chevy with “Euro” plastered all over it to a Californian in the early nineties would have been a heroic feat indeed, after years of pushing the Eurosport Celebrity. I like the looks of the feature car. This dialogue made me laugh. They put the car on the lift and could barely even see the alternator it was so hidden. Roger figured the W bodies were “good enough” for GM owners to trade in their 70s and 80s A, G, and B bodies. I’ve always thought these looked okay on the outside. We test drive both cars and found the Lumina much more entertaining. Before you leave a comment about how wonderful and reliable Aunt Mildred’s Lumina was, please remember the cardinal rule of GM’s Deadly Sins: it’s not about auntie’s car per se, but about the undeniable facts of the impact that each Deadly Sin had on the slow but steady erosion of GM’s market share, reputation, and contribution to its final demise. For me the problem with the Lumina is that the 3 boxes do not look as if they belong together. There were so many challenges that the Big Three faced starting in the seventies, and it may not have been possible to really master them all. Startup was problematic,with weeks of fooling around to try and make it right. Those were the roomiest, most efficient best built GM cars of that era after some of the initial bugs had been worked out and could be made to handle quite well in the T Type/Bonneville versions. At the time I was really surprized to see the 5-speed manual, but had no idea how rare they really were. The reason, it did not meet the durability standards for police use. And the GM10/W-body Lumina is such a great example of the ‘pinnacle’ Smith reached during his ten-year tenure at the helm of GM (the longest of any GM CEO). There was no one-touch window roll-down. For me, the design was equally uninspired. 1 Used Chevrolet Lumina Z34 cars for sale with prices starting at $499. But it still managed to get about 33-35mpg on long trips. Currently, I have a company-car that is a 2011 Malibu. It is clean inside and out has some wear on tires. 2. 1995-1997 Chevrolet Lumina LS Medium Hood Scoops Hoodscoops (2-pc Smooth Style) $59.80. A very strange ergonomic design. Chevy Lumina 1991, Rear Lateral Arm by Autopart International®. It was enough work getting people used to using lap belts. Average Retail Value Normal braking invariably turned into panic stomping on the pedal as you never felt the car was going to do what you told it. Then. I remember thinking LET Down from the CELEBRITY if that’s where they started. The same was true of the Cutlass Ciera versus the Cutlass Supreme. 1991 Chevrolet Lumina Z34 3.4L V6 - Gas Catalog; New Vehicle; Search All Vehicles; Clear Recent Vehicles; Search Bar 2. I remember plenty of Ford, Nissan and Toyota cars with this set up. Like so many GM fwd cars of the time, it came from the factory sagging in the rear (even the four door in the Disney cross-marking ad is sagging). Seat belts have had an interesting history – I have a 93 Century wagon I use about the house for dirty jobs – that has that arrangement. 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