• By Murilee Martin
    May 21, 2008 2:40 PM 2,373
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    The Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera Knows The Roads From Oregon To Maine!

    You may know the '85 Olds Cutlass Ciera best as the car that Jerry Lundegaard gave to a couple of North Dakota hoodlums as partial payment for a harebrained fake-kidnap scheme in the movie Fargo. Quite a claim to fame, that- but don't forget that the Cutlass Ciera was all about patriotism back in the day. Yes, the Ciera was America's "native car," apparently due to Oldsmobile's "special feel." We're going to give this one an 8 out of a possible 10 reading on the Schmaltz-O-Meter™.


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