The Oldsmobile Cutlass SX looked like a polite, well-optioned intermediate, yet under its conservative sheetmetal it hid one of the most serious big-block powerplants of the muscle era. Marketed as a ...

When you look at a modern Chevy engine, that's not what you're really seeing; instead, it's a GM "corporate" engine that is used across all the various brands (at least those that are still with us).

At the height of the muscle car craze, the engineering wizards at Oldsmobile created a "Frankensteinesque" big-block V8 with four valves per cylinder that could've become the most iconic American high ...

For many gearheads, the year 1970 represents the peak of the muscle car era — or at least the peak of the first muscle car era. A big part of what conspired to make 1970 special is that to remain ...

For those of you who may not think "Oldsmobile" and "performance" are synonymous terms, Oldsmobile's performance heritage dates all the way back to 1903, when an Olds-built "Flyer" established the ...

The 1970s were a particularly upsetting time for American car enthusiasts. Not only were insurance costs climbing and new emissions regulations strangling big-capacity V8 engines, but the '73 oil ...