Oldsmobile (Olds Motor Vehicle Co) History
Oldsmobile were from the year 1897 in Lansing (Michigan) produced by the Olds Motor Vehicle Co. Vehicles.
History
Oldsmobile’s were first manufactured by the Olds Motor Vehicle Co. in Lansing, Michigan. In 1908, the cars named as olds automobile and later as Oldsmobile’s. General Motors (GM) took over the company, originally founded as RV's Olds Motor Car Company by Ransom Eli Olds, and continued to use the Oldsmobile brand until 2004. The Olds Motor Works were before Ford, the first commercially successful car manufacturers in the United States, the mass-produced. In the brand's 107-year history, GM produced 35 million Oldsmobile vehicles; thereof about 14 million in the Lansing plant. In the 1960s and 1970s Oldsmobile was one of the most successful brands in the US and also stood for technical peculiarities and innovations.
By 1901 the company produced 635 cars and in the early 1900s the Curved Dash" was the first mass-produced car in the USA not Ford as many believed.
From the thirties for several decades, Oldsmobile got into the habit of equipping the model’s name with a pair of digits, the first representing the body type (the digits 6, 7, 8 and 9 were used) and the second the type. of engine if 6 or 8 cylinders, even before the outbreak of the Second World War, the company's models premiered first in semi-automatic and later fully automatic versions.
During the conflict the production was converted to that of war material and the first cars returned to light only at the end of 1945. The company's image in the post-war period was associated with its new V8 engine which offered power on average much higher than that of the competition. The Oldsmobile, which within the General Motors group was located halfway between the Pontiac brand and the Buick, was also used to preview some innovations on the automotive market, at least in the US, such as the removable hardtop, the engine turbocharged and the front-wheel drive (with the Tornado).
Its popularity on the domestic market had a continuous growth until the eighties, when it began its slow decline that led the parent company to decide to close it in 2000; it actually closed on 29 April 2004 with the exit from the assembly line of the last vehicle produced, the Alero model.
In May 1981 the RE Olds Transportation Museum was inaugurated, i.e., the museum dedicated to the cars produced by
Under the Oldsmobile logo, General Motors produced 304,634 cars in 2000, but only two years later it was just 162,000 vehicles. This decline continued, with the result that General Motors Corporation discontinued production of Oldsmobile vehicles on April 29, 2004. The last model that came off the line at GM's Lansing plant at Oldsmobile was an Alero that was brought to the RE Olds Transportation Museum.
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Oldsmobile Models History (1901-2004)
model year
models
1901
Model R
1902
Model R
1903
Model R
1904
Model 6C , Light Tonneau , Touring Runabout
1905
Model B , Light Tonneau, Side Entrance Touring , Touring Runabout
1906
Model B, Model L , Model S
1907
Model A , Model F , Model H
1908
Model M , Model MR , Model Z
1909
Model D , Model DR , Model X , Model Z, Series 20
1910
Series 22 , Series 23 , Series 24 , Series 25
1911
Series 26 , Series 27 , Series 28
1912
Series 32 , Series 33 , Series 40
1913
Series 40, Series 53
1914
Model 42 , model 54
1915
Model 42, Model 43 , Model 55
1916
Model 43, model 44
1917
Model 37 , model 45
1918
Model 37, model 45A
1919
Model 37A , model 45A, model 45B
1920
Model 37A , Model 37B , Model 45B
1921
Model 37, Model 43A , Model 46 , Model 47
1922
Model 43A, Model 46 , Model 47
1923
Model 30A , Model 43A, Model 46, Model 47
1924
Model 30B
1925
Model 30C
1926
Model 30D
1927
Model 30E
1928
F-28
1929
F-29
1930
F-30
1931
F-31
1932
F series , L series
1933
F series, L series
1934
F series, L series
1935
F series, L series
1936
F series, L series
1937
F series, L series
1938
F series, L series
1939
F series 60 , G series 70 , L series 80
1940
Special 60 , Dynamic 70 , 90
1941
Special 60, 76 , 78 , 90
1942
66 , 68 , Dynamic 70, 98
1943
no production
1944
no production
1945
no production
1946
Special 60, Dynamic 70, 90
1947
Special 60, Dynamic 70, 98
1948
Dynamic 60 , Dynamic 70, 98
1949
76, 88 , 98
1950
76, 88, 98
1951
88, Super 88 , 98
1952
88, Super 88, 98
1953
88, Super 88, 98, Fiesta
1954
88, Super 88, 98
1955
88, Super 88, 98
1956
88, Super 88, 98
1957
Golden Rocket 88 , Super 88, 98
1958
Dynamic 88 , Super 88, 98
1959
Dynamic 88, Super 88, 98
1960
Dynamic 88, Super 88, 98
1961
F-85 , Dynamic 88, Super 88, Classic 98 , Starfire
1962
F-85, Dynamic 88, Super 88, 98, Starfire
1963
F-85, Dynamic 88, Super 88, 98, Starfire
1964
F-85, Dynamic 88, Jetstar 88 , Super 88, 98, Starfire, Vista Cruiser
1965
F-85, Delta 88 , Dynamic 88, Jetstar 88, 98, Starfire, Vista Cruiser
1966
F-85, Delta 88, Dynamic 88, Jetstar 88, 98, Starfire, Vista Cruiser Toronado ,
1967
F-85, Cutlass , Cutlass Supreme , Delmont 88 , Delta 88, 98, Toronado, Vista Cruiser
1968
4-4-2 , F-85, Cutlass, Cutlass S , Cutlass Supreme, Delmont 88, Delta 88, 98, Toronado, Vista Cruiser
1969
4-4-2, F-85, Cutlass, Cutlass S, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Toronado, Vista Cruiser
1970
4-4-2, F-85, Cutlass, Cutlass S, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Toronado, Vista Cruiser
1971
4-4-2, F-85, Custom Cruiser , Cutlass, Cutlass S, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Toronado, Vista Cruiser
1972
F-85, Custom Cruiser, Cutlass, Cutlass S, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Toronado, Vista Cruiser
1973
Custom Cruiser, Cutlass, Cutlass S, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Omega , Toronado, Vista Cruiser
1974
Custom Cruiser, Cutlass, Cutlass S, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Omega, Toronado, Vista Cruiser
1975
Custom Cruiser, Cutlass, Cutlass S, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Omega, Starfire , Toronado, Vista Cruiser
1976
Custom Cruiser, Cutlass S, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Omega, Starfire, Toronado, Vista Cruiser
1977
Custom Cruiser, Cutlass S, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Omega, Starfire, Toronado, Vista Cruiser
1978
Custom Cruiser, Cutlass, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Hurst / Olds , Omega, Starfire, Toronado
1979
Custom Cruiser, Cutlass, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Hurst / Olds, Omega, Starfire, Toronado
1980
Custom Cruiser, Cutlass, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Hurst / Olds, Omega, Starfire, Toronado
1981
Custom Cruiser, Cutlass, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Hurst / Olds, Omega, Toronado
1982
Custom Cruiser, Cutlass Ciera , Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Firenza , Hurst / Olds, Omega, Toronado
1983
Custom Cruiser, Cutlass Ciera, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Firenza, Hurst / Olds, Omega, Toronado
1984
Custom Cruiser, Cutlass Ciera, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Firenza, Omega, Toronado
1985
Calais , Custom Cruiser, Cutlass Ciera, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Firenza, Toronado
1986
Calais, Custom Cruiser, Cutlass Ciera, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Firenza, Toronado
1987
Calais, Custom Cruiser, Cutlass Ciera, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Firenza, Toronado
1988
Custom Cruiser, Cutlass Calais , Cutlass Ciera, Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, 98, Firenza, Toronado
1989
Custom Cruiser, Cutlass Calais, Cutlass Ciera, Cutlass Supreme, Royale 88 , 98, Toronado
1990
Custom Cruiser, Cutlass Calais, Cutlass Ciera, Cutlass Supreme, Royale 88, 98, Silhouette , Toronado
1991
Bravada , Custom Cruiser, Cutlass Calais, Cutlass Ciera, Cutlass Supreme, Royale 88, 98, Silhouette , Toronado
1992
Achieva , Bravada, Custom Cruiser, Cutlass Ciera, Cutlass Supreme, Royale 88, 98, Silhouette, Toronado
1993
Achieva, Bravada, Cutlass Ciera, Cutlass Supreme, Royale 88, 98, Silhouette
1994
Achieva, Bravada, Cutlass Ciera, Cutlass Supreme, Royale 88, 98, Silhouette
1995
Achieva, Bravada, Cutlass Ciera, Cutlass Supreme, Royale 88, 98, Silhouette
1996
Achieva, Aurora , Bravada, Ciera , Cutlass Supreme, LSS , 88, 98, Silhouette
1997
Achieva, Aurora, Bravada, Cutlass , Cutlass Supreme, LSS, 88, Regency , Silhouette
1998
Achieva, Aurora, Bravada, Cutlass, Intrigue , LSS, 88, Regency, Silhouette
1999
Alero , Aurora, Bravada, Cutlass, Intrigue, LSS, 88, Silhouette
2000
Alero, Bravada, Intrigue, Silhouette
2001
Alero, Aurora, Bravada, Intrigue, Silhouette
2002
Alero, Aurora, Bravada, Intrigue, Silhouette
2003
Alero, Aurora, Bravada, Silhouette
2004
Alero, Bravada, silhouette
