Olds Motor Works soon adopted the popular name of its vehicles, Oldsmobile ( which, along with Buick and Cadillac, became founding divisions of General Motors Corporation ).

For space reasons, Oldsmobile adopted torsion bars for the Toro's front suspension ( the first GM passenger car application of torsion bars ), with conventional, unequal-length double wishbones.

They named a park for Crego instead in October 1970 and adopted a resolution to name I-496 the " Oldsmobile Expressway ".

Monza's H-body variants, the Pontiac Sunbird and Oldsmobile Starfire adopted Vega's revised Dura-built 140 engine one year only, for 1976 and 1977 respectively.

The Monza 2 + 2 and its Buick and Oldsmobile variants feature GM's first use of a torque arm rear suspension, also adopted for the 1975 Cosworth Vega introduced mid-1975, and later, all 1976-77 Vegas and Pontiac Astres.

The Cutlass Salon was the first Oldsmobile with the ' international ' flags emblem, later carried on the Cutlass Ciera.

Tiffany touches include the Tiffany Gold paint ( an exclusive custom metallic color created especially for this car ), the clock has also been specially styled by Tiffany's and bears a white Oldsmobile emblem above the Tiffany's name on a golden face.

Starting with the trunk-lid emblem of the 1950 model, Oldsmobile would adopt the rocket as its logo, and the 88 name would remain in the Olds lineup until the late 1990s, almost until the end of Oldsmobile itself.

" Oldsmobile " emblem on deck lid is larger than on 1999 models, although some early 2000 models carried the smaller version.

The Oldsmobile " rocket " logo was even updated to be more in-line with the Aurora's emblem.

Ash and his Oldsmobile land in what appears to be the Crusader-held Middle East in the year 1300 AD.

The announcement took place just two days after Oldsmobile unveiled what would be its last new model ever, the Bravada SUV-which became, somewhat ironically, another critical hit for the division.

Buyers were not sure if Edsel or Mercury were alternatives to Pontiac, Oldsmobile or Buick in terms of equipment offered and marketing department definitions of what the cars were meant to offer.

The following year a second series of somewhat larger cars was planned for Buick, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac, what would be termed " senior compacts.

The 88 series was also an image leader for Oldsmobile, particularly in the early years ( 1949 – 51 ) when it was one of the best performing automobiles thanks to its relatively small size, light weight and advanced overhead-valve high-compression V8 engine originally designed for the larger C-bodied and more luxurious 98 series but it also replaced the straight-8 on the smaller B-bodied 78, creating what was considered the predecessor of musclecars of the 1960s.

Early design work on what would become the Aurora began as early as the late 1980s and manifested itself with a 1989 engineering concept known as the Oldsmobile Tube Car.

Many in the automotive press also criticized the car's new design as being too derivative of what they thought resembled a 3-year-old Buick or Oldsmobile full-size car.

Leather seating areas and vinyl roof trim were available on the De Ville, but never on the Calais ( although a high-grade vinyl-and-cloth, similar to what was seen on top-line Buick Electras and Oldsmobile 98s, was ).

At the time that the Oldsmobile Silhouette and its siblings were conceived, no one had tried to market a stylish or sporty minivan, and GM felt that this represented a potentially large market segment.

The Oldsmobile with the license number JYJ 114 was in stall number five.

The Oldsmobile Ace was also produced from 1946 to 1948.

Later that year he founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, which became the Oldsmobile division of General Motors in 1908, and he was also the founder of the REO Motor Car Company in 1904, both headquartered in Lansing.

A combination retail and residential complex immediately south of Cooley Law School Stadium ( formerly Oldsmobile Park ) called " The Stadium District ", was completed in 2007.

The MarketPlace project was redeveloped along with BallPark North, another mixed-use development that will be immediately north of Oldsmobile Stadium.

By comparison, the Cole 30 and Colt Runabout were priced at US $ 1500, Kirk's Yale side-entrance US $ 1, 000, the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout went for US $ 650, Western's Gale Model A was US $ 500, a Brush Runabout US $ 485, the Black started at $ 375, and the Success hit the amazingly low US $ 250.

The Oldsmobile was an immediate success in 1949 and 1950, and all the automobile manufacturers could not help noticing its higher sales of the Oldsmobile 88 to the buying public.

The first turbocharged passenger car was the Oldsmobile Turbo Jetfire in 1962.

Oldsmobile was a brand of American automobile produced for most of its existence by General Motors.

When it was phased out in 2004, Oldsmobile was the oldest surviving American automobile marque, and one of the oldest in the world, after Daimler, Peugeot and Tatra.

The last Curved Dash Oldsmobile was made in 1907.

The 1901 to 1904 Oldsmobile Curved Dash was the first mass-produced car, made from the first automotive assembly line, an invention that is often miscredited to Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company.

" It was this moniker, as applied especially to the Oldsmobile Curved Dash, that was popularized in the lyrics and title of the 1905 hit song " In My Merry Oldsmobile.

In 1937, Oldsmobile was a pioneer in introducing a four-speed semi-automatic transmission called the " Automatic Safety Transmission ", although this accessory was actually built by Buick, which would offer it in its own cars in 1938.

For the 1940 model, Oldsmobile was the first auto manufacturer to offer a fully automatic transmission, called the Hydramatic, which featured four forward speeds.

Oldsmobile once again was a pioneer when, for the 1949 model, they introduced their Rocket engine, which used an overhead valve V8 design rather than the flathead " straight-8 " design which prevailed at the time.

Oldsmobile was among the first of General Motors ' divisions to receive a true hardtop in 1949, and it was also among the first divisions ( along with Buick and Cadillac ) to receive a wraparound windshield, a trend that eventually all American makes would share at sometime between 1953 and 1964.

* 2004 – Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.

* 1968 – General Motors produced its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.

While Oldsmobile only sold 725 Limiteds in its three years of production, the car is best remembered for winning a race against the famed 20th Century Limited train, an event immortalized in the painting " Setting the Pace " by William Hardner Foster.

Oldsmobile entered the 1950s following a divisional image campaign centered on its ' Rocket ' engines and its cars ' appearance followed suit.

When compared side to side, Oldsmobile looked dated next to its price-point competitor DeSoto.

The Oldsmobile that emerged in 1958 bore little resemblance to the design of its forerunners ; instead the car emerged as a large, over-decorated " chromemobile.

From 1948 until 2004, Oldsmobile used a variety of logos employing a rocket theme that played off its Rocket line of V-8 engines.

Those trials were sanctioned and supervised by NASCAR. Note: between 1964 and 1966, Oldsmobile named its least expensive full size model the Oldsmobile Jetstar 88 which the Jetstar I was not related to, and priced $ 500 –$ 600 below the Jetstar I.

In an attempt to modernize marketing efforts as Oldsmobile's fortunes declined, the " Delta " name was dropped in 1989, but the car lived on as the Eighty-Eight until Oldsmobile ended its production in 1999.

At that time, each General Motors division produced its own V8 engines, and in 1977, Oldsmobile, Chevrolet, Pontiac and Buick each produced a unique 350-cubic-inch displacement V8.

Oldsmobile also introduced a 5. 7L ( 350cu-in, V-8 ) diesel engine option on its Delta 88 and 98 models in 1978 and a smaller 4. 3L ( 260 cu-in ) displacement diesel on the ' 79 Cutlass Supreme.

After the tremendous success of the early 1980s, things changed quickly for Oldsmobile, and by 1990 the brand had lost its place in the market, squeezed between other GM divisions, and with competition from new upscale import makes such as Acura and Lexus.

For 1995, Oldsmobile introduced the Aurora, which would be the inspiration for the design of its cars from the mid-1990s onward.

Oldsmar celebrates its history every year with Oldsmar Days and Nights, where residents and visitors take part in parades, car shows ( featuring the Oldsmobile ) and carnival rides.

Musclecars magazine wrote: " he idea of putting a full-size V8 under the hood of an intermediate body and making it run like Jesse Owens in Berlin belongs to none other than Oldsmobile ... all-new ohv V8 ... Rocket engine quickly found its way into the lighter 76 series body, and in February 1949, the new 88 series was born.

Canadian Chevrolet / Oldsmobile dealers continued to sell a rebadged HB as the Envoy Epic through 1970 while Pontiac / Buick dealers kept selling the car under its real name.