The Oldsmobile Curved Dash was introduced in 1901 as the first production model from the automaker. Ransom E. Olds founded the company four years earlier in 1897. The Curved Dash was notable for ...

General Motors produced Oldsmobile cars for the majority of its existence. The company, established in 1897 by Ransom E. Olds, is still based in the US. In its 107-year existence, it manufactured 35.2 ...

Oldsmobile may not be a brand that still exists today, but it had a significant impact on the burgeoning American automotive empire. And on August 21, 1897, the Olds Motor Works company first came to ...

A stealthy dealer kit turned legend when only 93 Oldsmobiles walked out with it. Most never knew what hit them.

Before the muscle car wars had names, before Pontiac’s GTO and Chrysler’s Road Runner strutted across billboards, there was the Oldsmobile 88. Back in 1949, Oldsmobile dropped a Rocket V8 into a ...

Q: Greg, I enjoyed your recent Plymouth “Gone but never forgotten” feature that appeared in our newspaper and its website. I’m wondering if you could do a similar story on the Oldsmobile, another top ...

For some, the so-called Malaise era, loosely defined as the automotive period between 1973 and 1983, was an irredeemably dark time in American automotive history. As a result, few cars from the time ...

When General Motors announced the Oldsmobile ``phase out,'' the final period was placed on the long-est continuing story in the American auto industry. Ransom Eli Olds was born in 1864. The Olds ...

Whenever the Oldsmobile 442 is mentioned, most people probably conjure up an image in their heads of the first-generation Oldsmobile 442 – likely in “Hurst Olds” guise with the iconic gold and white ...

Even though I'm mostly a Mopar guy when it comes to golden-era muscle cars, I'm also a big fan of Oldsmobile products. There are too many reasons to list here, but the Oldsmobile 442 is one of them. I ...

"Turn your eye for beauty to a mighty satisfying sight." Song lyrics? A line in a poem? No, it's advertising copy from a fold-out magazine display in the Oct. 3, 1959, edition of The Saturday Evening ...

While the vast majority of classic car buyers go for quarter-mile busting muscle cars, the Oldsmobile Toronado stands out as a sleek, sophisticated piece of design with some interesting history behind ...