There are the rare cars of old, and there’s the 1971 Oldsmobile 442 W-30. The 442 muscle car that made the rounds of the American automotive scene during three stints between 1964 and 1991 is ...

Any muscle car fan knows what happened in Detroit after the 1970 model year. Emissions regulations and soaring insurance rates delivered a one-two punch that emasculated the era's super cars with ...

[Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of MotorTrend Classic] Imagine the Indianapolis Colts playing the New York Giants in the Super Bowl. Payton versus Eli, ...

Oldsmobile long had a reputation for building quality cars that did little to move the excitement meter. All that changed in the mid '60s, as the muscle car boom lifted Oldsmobile to performance ...

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 ...

Detroit in the mid-1960s was a battleground of horsepower competition. Everywhere you looked there was a V8, a dual exhaust, or a decal trying to shout louder than the rest. Oldsmobile was part of ...

The Pontiac GTO bowed in early September 1963 for the 1964 model year. The initial sales target was for 5,000 copies per year, but it sold like hotcakes, with 32,450 GTOs selling the first year of ...