Green Car Reports

JANUARY 7, 2022

Oldsmobile. It seemed that Chrysler was headed for the same fate as these other ill-fated legacy American brands, but the company with the winged logo is looking to take flight again as the electric vehicle emissary for Stellantis. And that has given Chrysler new life. At the 2022 Consumer Electronics Showcase, Chrysler unveiled.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 11, 2013

Two weeks ago, we wrote about the near-pristine 54,000-mile 1979 Oldsmobile 98 Coupe that popped up for sale on the delightful and quirky Bring A Trailer site. Nothing like a lime green 34-year-old diesel car to wake you up the morning after you spring forward, is there? Now, BaT has published an update--with a lot of lime-green paint.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 18, 2023

Joined that year by the Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Fiesta and Buick Roadmaster Skylark, the trio represented GM’s new high-cost, low-volume halo convertible experiment. The platform was mostly used for Cadillac and Buick vehicles, along with the largest Oldsmobiles, and a couple of Pontiac and Chevrolet wagons later in history (1970s).

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 7, 2018

The 1938 Oldsmobile L-38 convertible coupe used the first transmission to select gears. With only the possible exception of the electric starter, nothing has done more to expand the adoption of personal cars than the automatic transmission, as reflected by one of the first cars so-equipped, being sold this week in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Americans didn’t forget about Saab, ranking it second, followed by Oldsmobile in third. People in the U.S. miss Pontiac the most, perhaps due to the frequency of Smokey and the Bandit reruns, but the American brand is also missed in Italy, Canada, and Brazil. Germans really miss Trabant. Our friends in the U.K.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 1, 2023

Oldsmobile and Buick got their own versions of the Caprice wagon that year: the Custom Cruiser and the Roadmaster Estate. Buick and Oldsmobile buyers had long been resigned to getting engines from lesser GM divisions under their hoods by the time this car was new, and it has the same Chevy 350 aka 5.7-liter

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As expected, the Oldsmobile 98 Fiesta was more affordable at $5,715 ($65,677 adj.). Oldsmobile didn’t have the relative affordability of the Buick or the prestige of the Cadillac and was the poorest seller. That price was double the ask of a standard Ninety-Eight convertible. It sold 1,690 examples during its one-year run.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In 1988, five members of the J-Body family were available in the United States: the Cadillac Cimarron , Buick Skyhawk , Oldsmobile Firenza , Pontiac Sunbird , and Chevrolet Cavalier. Today's Junkyard Find is a sporty Sunbird coupe, found in a yard just south of Denver, Colorado.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

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 buy this piece of diesel history. Found through the always entertaining Bring A Trailer site, this Craigslist find is a gigantic, all-American diesel.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2024

Geo and Oldsmobile were already gone, with Pontiac and Saturn following in 2010. I have mounted Red Line and Green Line badges side-by-side on my garage wall , in order to represent the duality of man.

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Teslarati

MAY 17, 2023

“Obviously, they’re going to have to focus on what’s good for the environment and also that it is a car of the future as opposed to your father’s Oldsmobile,” Martin said. Thomas Martin, senior portfolio manager at Globalt Investments, shared his optimism about Tesla’s new direction. billion on US ads.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 26, 2023

Both the Allanté and the Reatta rode on modified versions of the front-wheel-drive Cadillac Eldorado / Oldsmobile Toronado / Buick Riviera chassis, so they weren't exactly direct competitors for sporty European machinery. One was the Cadillac Allanté , while the other was the Buick Reatta. The Reatta's engine was the good old 3.8-liter

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This yard also has an early Peugeot 505 Turbodiesel , an Oldsmobile Toronado Troféo and even an example of the long-forgotten VW Jetta Hybrid. The closest I'd come was a '77 two-door in Denver , but then I hit pay dirt in a Northern California yard last week. Behold the November 1974 date of manufacture on the build sticker!

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 29, 2024

Dubbed the “Golden Anniversary” models, the line began with the newly minted Chevrolet Bel-Air Impala and Pontiac Bonneville Catalina, and moved up to the Oldsmobile Starfire 98, the slow-selling Buick Limited Riviera, and finally the Eldorado Seville. & Recall the original idea of Eldorado was as a halo convertible.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Perhaps that’s why Oldsmobile was so successful around here. Outside a few wealthy suburban enclaves, much of this region traditionally has valued restraint, and the only acceptable response when questioned about buying a luxury good is to reply that you got it on sale. It gave drivers a taste of luxury without flaunting it.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 19, 2024

Oldsmobile was wisest of the group, as its engineers opted never to produce an X-frame vehicle. .& Each GM brand went their own way with the X-frame (funny, that brand independence). Cadillac and Chevrolet would use the X-frame through 1964, while Pontiac used it only from 1958 to 1960.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 25, 2023

We discussed the engineering underneath 1953’s trio of high-end halo convertibles from Buick, Oldsmobile, and Cadillac last week. All three used different wheelbase lengths of the same C-body full-size, rear-drive platform.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 4, 2024

Oldsmobile was gone after 2004 , not long after Geo had to endure having its final two models torn away and handed to Chevrolet in 1997 and 1998. When the left-side mirror got broken off, this car's owner fixed it with fiberglass. The drawback to the plastic body panels was their tendency to break, especially after a decade or two of service.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Oldsmobile had been taken behind the barn and shot through the head a few years earlier and Pontiac was on the ropes. It had dwindled to just the Axiom and Rodeo by 2004, then staggered on for a few more years selling hastily rebadged Chevy Trailblazers and Colorados.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 10, 2023

Throw in the even bigger sales for a couple of this car's A-Body siblings in 1976 (353,272 for the Chevrolet Monte Carlo , 385,578 for all two-door Oldsmobile Cutlass models) and you get a sense of the huge numbers of new A-Body coupes roaming the roads back then. 228,091 were sold for the 1976 model year.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 10, 2023

Maybe it’s all the time I spent in various Oldsmobiles in the Eighties, but I can’t help but feel comforted by the resurgence of actual colors in interiors. Front seats are supportive without being punishing - something that can’t be said about the competition bucket seats often fitted to the M3.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Chevrolet Monza and its siblings (the 1975-1980 Oldsmobile Starfire , Buick Skyhawk and Pontiac Sunbird ) were based on the Vega's H-Body platform, as we all know, but GM didn't even bother to put non-Vega snouts on the 1978-1979 Monza and Sunbird wagons.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 11, 2023

With amalgamated names, the Buick Roadmaster Skylark, Oldsmobile 98 Fiesta, and Cadillac Series 62 Eldorado were introduced as the most expensive cars on offer from their respective brands that year.& Critically, these two doors were priced above their brand’s most expensive sedan.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

When GM began phasing out the Oldsmobile marketing division and brand in 2000, it offered dealers between $1,600 and $3,100 per car sold in their best sales year during prior three years. That process ended up costing an estimated $1 billion and resulted in approximately 19 lawsuits by dealers against GM.

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