The Oldsmobile 442 W-30 sits at the intersection of Detroit performance and modern collectability, a car whose production run was short but whose impact on the muscle era was outsized. To understand ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Amidst the automotive industry's focus on sustainable technologies, there's also a trend of old-school revivals among major brands. Classic cars from yesteryears are being resurrected, with the likes ...

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 ...