The Oldsmobile 442 is an icon of automotive history, but the meaning of its name hasn't always been clear. Here's what it ...

The Oldsmobile 442 entered the mid 1970s just as the muscle car era was collapsing under the weight of emissions rules, insurance crackdowns, and a new obsession with fuel economy. Yet the 1975 ...

Classic Car Deals has published a new in-depth article that addresses a question increasingly asked by both seasoned collectors and first-time buyers: “Is it safe and practical to daily drive a ...

Chad has been a muscle car and classic truck lover since he could walk. The classic vehicles from the '60s and '70s are the best in his eyes, but he is more than willing to give the new technology a ...

In April of 1964, the Oldsmobile 442 option package was introduced for the Cutlass. The 4-4-2 moniker was derived from the option’s four-barrel carb, four-speed manual transmission, and dual exhaust.

The 4-4-2 moniker was the second muscle car from the classic era (sixties and seventies), right after the GTO. Just as its Pontiac sibling, the Olds started life as a package, and ended the same way, ...

General Motors produced Oldsmobile cars for the majority of its existence. The company, established in 1897 by Ransom E. Olds, is still based in the US. In its 107-year existence, it manufactured 35.2 ...

Even though I'm mostly a Mopar guy when it comes to golden-era muscle cars, I'm also a big fan of Oldsmobile products. There are too many reasons to list here, but the Oldsmobile 442 is one of them. I ...

There's a rather oddball car coming up for sale at the upcoming Mecum auction, and we genuinely can't decide if it's awesome or awful: A 1999 SEMA show car built by General Motors as the Oldsmobile ...