Oldsmobile Antares

The Oldsmobile Antares was a concept car that Oldsmobile built in 1995, with a design based on the Aurora look of the 1994 Oldsmobile Aurora. It is named after the bright star in the constellation Scorpius and was the first vehicle to wear the then new Oldsmobile corporate emblem. It had the 113.5 inch wheelbase of the Aurora but was 17 inches shorter. Oldsmobile meant it as the four door successor of the Eighty-Eight and planned to push the Aurora further upmarket in its second generation, but Buick cancelled the Riviera on whose platform the next Aurora was to ride, and Oldsmobile had to re-engineer the Antares into the new Aurora. It therefore never went beyond the concept stage. Brigid O Kane designed it, and AutoWeek named it Best Concept Car at the 1995 North American International Auto Show.