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The American automobile manufacturer General Motors sold a number of vehicles under its marque Oldsmobile, which started out as an independent company in 1897 and was eventually shut down due to a lack of profitability in 2004. [1]
The Oldsmobile Eighty Eight was redesigned for 1992, following the redesign of the Ninety Eight the previous year. This was the last Eighty Eight or 88 model from Oldsmobile (along with its performance LSS and Regency models) before being discontinued in 1999 and being replaced in 2001 with the Aurora. The 3.8 L Buick V6 was still the only ...
Oldsmobile (formally the Oldsmobile Division of General Motors) was a brand of American automobiles, produced for most of its existence by General Motors.Originally established as "Olds Motor Vehicle Company" by Ransom E. Olds in 1897, it produced over 35 million vehicles, including at least 14 million built at its Lansing, Michigan, factory alone.
1915–1917 Oakland Model 50; 1915–1923 Oldsmobile Model 40; 1917–1918 Chevrolet Series D (acquired as part of Chevrolet's merger into GM) 1929–1931 Viking V8; 1930–1932 Oakland V8 (used in Pontiac models during its final year) 1935–1948 Cadillac Series 60 (also used in the LaSalle) 1949–1980 Cadillac OHV V8; 1949–1990 Oldsmobile ...
The Hydramatic was a big success, and had been installed in the majority of GM models by 1950. Throughout the 1950s, all GM Marques continued developing automatic transmission designs, both jointly and independently. Early models included: 1937–1939 Automatic Safety Transmission (AST) — Oldsmobile, Buick in 1938 only
During the 1970s and 1980s, GM introduced many new front-wheel drive (FWD) platforms for the first time, such as the FWD C platform introduced in 1985. Despite being mechanically very new and different, it kept the same name as the RWD C platform for the sake of consistency, as most of the models remained the same, such as the Oldsmobile 98 .
The original Oldsmobile V8 was to have been marketed as "Kettering Power" after chief engineer Charles Kettering, but company policy prohibited the use of his name. Instead, influenced by the Space Race between the United States and the USSR , the legendary Rocket was born, available in Oldsmobile's 88, Super 88, and 98 models.
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