Throughout the first half of the previous century, pocket-sized toy cars were few and far between. That changed in 1953 when the British manufacturing firm Lesney Products introduced its first Matchbox vehicles. The idea came...
Tag Archives: Oldsmobile
![The Real Driving Chin-ulator: Jay Leno Drives His Oldsmobile Toronado in Gran Turismo 6 [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/video_still_224.jpg)
Jay Leno’s vast car collection has dozens of rides we lust after. But one member of his fleet that’s a cut above the rest (in our opinion, anyway) is his thoroughly-customized 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado. For...
![Good Golly: Take a Trip Back in Car-Building Time with GM Fisher Body Promo Film [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/video_still_211.jpg)
It may be hard to believe, living as we are in today’s hyper-competitive global automotive marketplace, that General Motors used to sell a little over half of the new cars and trucks in the United...
![Dinosaur Island: MotorTrend Checks out the Cuban Classic Car Scene [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/video_still_062.jpg)
At the risk of earning ourselves a promotion to the rank of major buzzkill, no company on earth will ever produce cars like those made by U.S. automakers in the 1950s. Yes, that’s probably a...
Purpose-built racing cars – be they single seat open wheelers, sports prototypes, dragsters or any other automobile whose sole reason for being is to compete – have always inspired awe and been capable of extraordinary...
An overwhelming majority of sources assert that the Adam of the American muscle car species is the 1964 Pontiac GTO. It was certainly the first muscle car to be marketed toward leadfooted baby boomers, but...
![Great Moments in Crappy Engine History: Oldsmobile 350 Diesel [w/ Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/olds_diesel_1-335x256.jpg)
The annals of automotive history are sprinkled with vehicles that were truly awful all-around. But in some cases, cars that are otherwise decent (if not actually good) have been saddled with wretched engines. Of course,...
It’s hard to believe that the 1980s ended more than 20 years ago. Then again, maybe we just don’t want to believe the ‘80s ended that long ago. Either way, it was a pretty long...