The Oldsmobile 442 W-30 looked like a gentleman’s muscle car, but its most interesting engineering work happened where casual ...
Oldsmobile did something deceptively simple in the 1960s. It turned a string of digits into a promise, then into an identity.
Although muscle cars can be traced back to the 1950s, the consensus is that the Pontiac GTO popularized the high-performance midsize market. Introduced for the 1964 model year, the GTO was immediately ...
Dr. Oldsmobile was a marketing genius, or perhaps just a mad scientist with a budget, but his creations for Lansing’s finest were nothing short of legendary. While the GTO gets the glory for starting ...
Unravel the mystery of the first production car with a factory-installed turbocharger, a rarity on the road and in ...
In 1963, John DeLorean and a bunch Pontiac engineers stuffed a big Pontiac engine in a lightweight Tempest, making a factory hot rod of it. Add in performance suspension bits, brakes, a chrome Hurst ...
Oldsmobile has been setting the pace in auto performance since Ransom Eli Olds built the legendary Curved Dash Runabout in 1902. To show its stuff, Olds sent young Roy Chapin off from Detroit to the ...