Before the muscle car wars had names, before Pontiac’s GTO and Chrysler’s Road Runner strutted across billboards, there was the Oldsmobile 88. Back in 1949, Oldsmobile dropped a Rocket V8 into a ...

Oldsmobile and Chevy are often discussed in the same breath, with both carmakers owned by General Motors and selling similar models in the past. However, despite some engine-swapping mishaps in the ...

Produced smack-dab in the middle of the Malaise era, the eighth-gen Oldsmobile 88 was significantly smaller than its predecessors, and stood as the final 88 generation before the transition to a front ...

The name only stuck around for two model years—1967 and 1968—making it something of an anomaly in Oldsmobile’s storied 88 series, which spanned ten generations and fifty years. While most car folks ...