The Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser occupies a rare niche in muscle car history, because it blended family-hauling practicality with the performance image of the Oldsmobile 442. Collectors today are not just ...

The 1987 Oldsmobile 442 arrived at a moment when classic American muscle seemed like a fading photograph, not a living product on a showroom floor. Power was down, emissions rules were up, and the ...

Selecting the HOT ROD Street Machine of the Year was not an easy task. HOT ROD staffers see thousands of fine street machines during the course of a year. After much debate and lobbying, a stellar ...

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 ...

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, ...

The 1964 Pontiac GTO was the brainchild of John Z. DeLorean, Russ Gee, and Bill Collins. The initial production run was supposed to be 5,000 units, but first-year orders eclipsed the 32,000 mark.

In response to the wildly successful Pontiac GTO, the Oldsmobile 442 debuted in April of 1964. The 442 was a Cutlass trim package, with the moniker derived front the four-barrel carburetor, four-speed ...

Chad has been a muscle car and classic truck lover since he could walk. The classic vehicles from the '60s and '70s are the best in his eyes, but he is more than willing to give the new technology a ...

Regular Jay Leno's Garage viewers are likely familiar with the Oldsmobile 442, as a well-preserved 1966 442 previously appeared on the show. This time, though, Leno is featuring a very different take ...

There's a rather oddball car coming up for sale at the upcoming Mecum auction, and we genuinely can't decide if it's awesome or awful: A 1999 SEMA show car built by General Motors as the Oldsmobile ...