By 1999, the Oldsmobile lineup comprised the compact Achieva, mid-sized Cutlass & Intrigue, and the full-sized Eighty Eight & Aurora. The Eighty-Eight was in its 50th year of production, and it is no surprise that Olds knew what its buyers wanted. Unfortunately, the buyers were in the final stages of life and the entire Oldsmobile […]
The Geo Tracker was a small 4X4 that was born of a joint venture between GM and Suzuki. Oddly enough, it was GM of Canada who pushed this thing through to development and the first versions were built in a Canadian GM plant in Ingersoll, Ontario. The Tracker was a proper body-on-frame front-engine rear-wheel-drive mini […]
The forth generation of Oldsmobile’s Cutlass was launched for the 1973 model year on GM’s new Colonnade A-body platform. Today’s TV advertisement junkie might know Colonnade as Pfizer’s latest daily-injectable mild to severe hemorrhoid treatment (that also can be used off-label as a weight loss drug), but back in the early 70s, the designers at […]
If you’ve been living under a rock or stuck in a spaceship for the past 100 years, you might not know anything about this next car. Let me catch you up. Oldsmobile was a brand founded by Ransom E Olds in 1897 and was folded into the general morters corporate machine in 1908. For the […]
This next car comes as a tip from Rock On, who writes: This thing must be approaching unicorn status. I can’t ever recall seeing one on the road. To be frank, I had totally forgotten that Oldsmobile brought the Cutlass name back (it was replaced by the Achieva in 1992) for a 2-year run based […]
The first generation Oldsmobile Starfire sat at the top of end GM’s Olds lineup in 1962 from a time when cars were covered in wide pieces of thick chrome. The Starfire name was borrowed from the Lockheed F-94 Starfire interceptor, a short-lived Korean War-era fighter that inspired young automobile designers in the early jet age. […]
If you are going to buy a crappy GM mid-sized sedan from the late 90s/early 2000s, you should probably buy the nicest one you can find. There is no point in driving a clapped-out version of GM’s W-body GMX170 platform (Buick Century/Regal, Chevrolet Impala/Monte Carlo, Pontiac Grand Prix, Oldsmobile Intrigue) when the nicest mint condition […]
The fifth generation of Oldsmobile’s legendary Cutlass is an interesting car to turn into an El Camino because it shares the G-Body platform (remember that the A-body went front-wheel-drive in 1982, and everything rear-drive was designated G-body after that year) with the actual fifth-generation El Camino. I guess you could get a real El Camino […]
The second generation of the Oldsmobile Super 88 was built for the 1954, 1955, and 1956 model years on GM’s B-Platform shared with the Buick Special. Available power was the 324 cubic inch Rocket V8 (or the Fireball V8 for the Buick cousin), and I don’t recall any diesel engines being offered when new? But […]
Do you fancy yourself a captain but don’t have the coin to purchase one of those floating money black holes commonly known as boats? Lemme tell ya, there’s a better option: get a land yacht. All of the calm floating motion, none of the barnacles. And CFlo’s 1996 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight is offered at the […]