Oldsmobile Car Pictures - Page 3

Oldsmobile's best and most widely bought car was the Oldsmobile Cutlass It was a mid sized car and was made by the company for the majority of its years. It was Oldsmobile's best seller in the 1970s and 1980s. Some of those years, Oldsmobile Cutlass' were the best selling car in the United States. In 1966, a new Cutlass Supreme was released as a full sized sedan that had a more powerful 320 horsepower 330 cubic-inch Jet fire Rocket V8 engine. In December 2000, General Motors said they were going to phase out the Oldsmobile brand, which was the oldest automobile brand in the United States.

"General Motors developed a system of sharing body panels between models of its different makes, but the Ninety-Eight broke ranks several times with this system. Its second body makeover did not share body panels with the other senior makes, Buick and Cadillac. Occasionally additional nomenclature was used with the name, such as L/S and Holiday, and the 98 Regency badge would become increasingly common in the later years of the model."

"The editors of Motor Trend present the 1966 Car of the Year award to Oldsmobile Division of General Motors for its Toronado. Never in the 14-year history of this award has the choice been so obvious and unanimous. The Toronado is symbolic of a resurgence of imaginative engineering and tasteful styling in the U.S. auto industry." (Originally published in the December 1965 issue of Motor Trend)
The Toronado project dates back to 1958 and unlike the Corvair of Ed Cole, XP-784 (as the Toronado was called in the early days) was clearly a team effort. A study of the car's history brings forth the names of stylists and engineers heretofore relatively unknown outside of their immediate professional circles, but no single name predominates.

Oldsmobile Car Pictures
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