The Oldsmobile Cutlass 442 was introduced in April of 1964 in response to Pontiac’s wildly successful GTO. The Oldsmobile 4-4-2 name stood for four-barrel carburetor, four-speed manual gearbox, and ...

“The W-30 version of the car has always been kind of the pinnacle of the Oldsmobile muscle car,” says Mancini. “I’ve always been a fan of not just Chrysler but GM muscle cars from that era and the 442 ...

Among muscle car loyalists, the Oldsmobile 442 name still carries weight, yet one supposed variant almost never surfaces in serious discussion: the 1969 442 wagon. The absence is not an oversight but ...

The Oldsmobile 442 has long stood as proof that brute force can be sharpened by engineering restraint. Rather than chasing the wildest quarter-mile numbers at any cost, Oldsmobile treated its ...

Frankly, we should adopt a new calendar, don’t you think? Instead of setting the bearings to what is otherwise referred to as the beginning of the Common Era (CE), wouldn’t it be easier for the car ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

The Oldsmobile 442 was an intermediate-sized high-performance muscle car that had a place in the Oldsmobile lineup during most years from mid-1964 until 1991. The original meaning of the 442's name ...

So, the Oldsmobile 442. Sorry, the 4-4-2, depending on the year, anyway. Despite three-number model names being mostly a Porsche thing, there are other three-number ...

It was all John Z. DeLorean’s fault. Years before he built his eponymously named stainless steel sports car, John Z. was a mover and shaker at General Motors. In the early-to-mid 1960s, Mr. DeLorean ...

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