The 4-4-2 moniker was the second muscle car from the classic era (sixties and seventies), right after the GTO. Just as its Pontiac sibling, the Olds started life as a package, and ended the same way, ...

1972 brought several changes to the Oldsmobile lineup, and the most notable concerned the 442. Sales went through the roof for Oldsmobile, and no longer offering the 442 as a separate model paid off.

The Oldsmobile 442 W-30 sits at the intersection of Detroit performance and modern collectability, a car whose production run was short but whose impact on the muscle era was outsized. To understand ...

The 1970 Oldsmobile 442 W-30 arrived at the peak of the muscle car wars with numbers that looked merely competitive, yet it built a reputation for delivering speed that actually translated to the ...

Introduced in April of 1964 as an answer to the blinding success of corporate cousin the Pontiac GTO, the Oldsmobile 442 was a trim package for the Olds Cutlass. The 4-4-2 moniker came from the ...

Joe Parker is a nationally award-winning journalist and columnist from the Atlanta area. He has served as an automotive journalist for the past four years alongside extensive sports, business, ...

“The W-30 version of the car has always been kind of the pinnacle of the Oldsmobile muscle car,” says Mancini. “I’ve always been a fan of not just Chrysler but GM muscle cars from that era and the 442 ...

The Oldsmobile Cutlass 442 was introduced in April of 1964 in response to Pontiac’s wildly successful GTO. The Oldsmobile 4-4-2 name stood for four-barrel carburetor, four-speed manual gearbox, and ...

If you took every great Oldsmobile ever made, stacked them up in order of awesomeness, then took an elevator all the way to the top floor, when you climbed out you would be looking at the '70 4-4-2 ...

The 1970 Oldsmobile 442 W-30 featured in the 1993 movie "Demolition Man" will be part of Barrett Jackson's upcoming auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. Scheduled to cross the auction block Jan. 27, the ...