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 ...

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 ...

The blown, mid-engined 442 has it all: wild looks, exhilarating performance, innovative engineering, superb comfort, outstanding reliability, exacting attention to detail, quality craftsmanship 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 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, ...

With only 30 automatic W-30 convertibles built in 1969, this restored example claims to be the only one ordered with the ...

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.

For the 1970 model year, General Motors lifted its ban on engines in excess of four hundred cubic inches in mid-size cars. This paved the way for the 455 cubic-inch V8 to be stuffed in the Oldsmobile ...

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 ...

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 ...