[Catera V]

Hi, this is a great thread. I am pleased with the amount of knowledge that the many owners have. I was the Allante lead development engineer thruout the life of the car. A case can be made for selecting many variants of the car. In my mind the most collectible car is the 93 with the Northstar. It is too bad the car was stopped for economic reasons (GM was bleeding red ink at the time.) We had the 94 ready to go with power soft top, revised interior, more structure, revised chassis tuning and more overall refinement. A little known fact is that about the last 300 -93 cars were built with the structure enhancements and revised tuning because the 94 bodies were already in the line when the car was cancelled. The easiest way to tell if you have one of these is that the upper half of the body mounts were urethane (Yellow brownish in color). As a road going pleasant sport touring car my choice would be the 91-92 car because by that time most of the cars problems had been addressed as we contiued to refine the car each year. My advice would be to find a well cared for car that fits the price range that you can afford and enjoy it! Catera V