Oldsmobile News

Just a few days after Ford agreed to a four-year contract with the Canadian Auto Workers, General Motors agreed to the same terms with the union late last night. GM's four-year deal calls for the creation or maintaining of 1,750 jobs and an investment of $675 million for ...    Read more

Even though he was CEO of General Motors for a grand total of 10 months and has repeatedly self-proclaimed not to be a "car guy," Edward Whitacre Jr. still believes that the government should sell its shares in General Motors off quickly. This isn't the first time Whitacre has called ...    Read more

As luck may have it, even beleaguered brands make gems every once in a while. But as good as a car or truck may be, luck doesn't always favor those whose saving grace comes at the last minute. There's very little in the car market that we outright hate, but a little schadenfreude ...    Read more

General Motors knew from its experience shuttering Oldsmobile in 2004 that it would lose loyal customers when it closed its Hummer, Pontiac, and Saturn brands as part of its bankruptcy deal with the government in 2009. Thus, the automaker took steps to minimize such “conquests”, or customers switching car brands, ...    Read more

Things are tough all over and unusual times call for unusual solutions. Car dealerships around the country are experiencing a major squeeze. Simply put they can’t sell cars due to all sorts of factors of which they have no control. But one thing they do have control of is their ...    Read more

General Motors has a long and rich history, and at one point in time, led the world in making automobiles. In fact, it could be said that there is an entire GM subculture in the auto industry today. So where did things go wrong?Perhaps, GM is failing because it is ...    Read more

Have you ever heard of a new car being referred to as an “orphan?” These are cars made by companies that are going out of business. Some people in the know advise that you consider buying such a car because it could save you a whole lot of ...    Read more

Alright, this whole eco-consciousness thing has officially gone too far. A town in Massachusetts has banned Christmas (okay, Holiday) lights because they were “damaging to the environment.” Who is the mayor, The Grinch?December 19th, 2007 may very well live in infamy for those of us who love the automobile. President ...    Read more

Oh, the generation gap! Don’t trust anyone over 30. It’s no longer your father’s Oldsmobile. All sayings we have come to know about the "generation gap" continue to drive an invisible wedge between fathers and sons, moms and daughters. Well, J.D. Power and Associates has come up with a ...    Read more

You should always be cautious when a journalist makes a noun a verb. That is what our editor friends at Motortrend has done, and their word is "Oldsmobile." In this case, it does not mean the auto division that General Motors killed some years ago. Instead, it ...    Read more