Most people who own a car today take their speedometer for granted. A standard, unremarkable feature in every vehicle, it quietly does its job of indicating current speed with few frills. You might ...

At a time when modern performance cars chase four-figure horsepower and 16-cylinder engines, Oldsmobile once built a best seller with just a single cylinder doing all the work. The tiny powerplant in ...

We've all known that China is always cranking out copycats of just about anything under the sun, and this time around, the 1901-1907 Oldsmobile Curved Dash is the subject of imitation. Ladies and ...

At the turn of the 20th century, following the popularization of the first cars ever invented by visionaries like Karl Benz, prototypical automobiles were gradually rolling out on the streets of the ...

LANSING — An early mass-produced Oldsmobile that Ransom Eli Olds donated to Michigan State University in 1948 now has been gifted to the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum, officials announced this week, ...

A seminal piece of American automotive history found a new home this week. A 1903 Oldsmobile Model R ‘Curved Dash’ Runabout crossed the auction block with RM Sotheby’s, ultimately securing a final ...

Think The Ford Model T was the first mass-produced automobile in America? Think again. Olds Motor Works in Lansing, Mich., was mass-producing Model R Runabouts in 1901, seven years before Ford’s Tin ...