General Motors’ Oldsmobile brand has been sent to car Valhalla for a while now (since 2004, to be more precise), but that doesn’t mean its vehicles have been forgotten. Let’s take the Oldsmobile 88 ...

Oldsmobile had a history of innovation in the automotive industry ranging from the leading-edge design of the 1949 Oldsmobile 88, to the overhead cam Rocket V8 engine and the highly collectable Olds ...

Most of you reading this will be familiar with the gas crisis of the 1970s. The first Gas Crisis hit in 1973, immediately following the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries' oil embargo, ...

The fourth-generation Cutlass Supreme embodies the Malaise Era’s drought of exciting cars. Oldsmobile even offered a V8 diesel back then, a mill that suffers from woeful reliability issues and poor ...

One of the big reasons Americans were so skeptical about diesel-powered cars for much of the last 35 or so years was the miserable experiences meted out to drivers by GM vehicles powered by the ...

Fans of diesel-engined cars really, really love their vehicles, and we have a lot of them on this site. So we're hoping that some Southern California diesel car fanatic will step up to the plate and ...

Of the myriad engineering failures from the reckless period at the end of the 1970s and the dawn of the '80s, the one with perhaps the longest-reaching effect on consumer preference was the ...

The Chevrolet Monte Carlo is a classic, perhaps best known as the car featured in "Training Day," a film starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke — but it had a very rough road in the 1980s. The ...