With the rare W43 engine, this 1970 Olds 442 is a true powerhouse. What performance secrets make it legendary?

The ’70 Olds 442 W‑30 roared with raw power and bold design. What features set this muscle car apart in the golden age of ...

What’s the most famous Oldsmobile automobile of all time? I’m on the fence between the 4-4-2 and the 88 – as being runners-up to the Cutlass, of course. The mid-size model appeared in 1961 as a ...

Matt Nelson is an automotive journalist with nearly a decade of experience in all things cars. He's spent years working at dealerships in sales, finance, and service. He's since traded in his pens and ...

The Oldsmobile 442 was Olds’ answer to the massively popular 1964 Pontiac GTO. It seemed Pontiac had hit a home run with the first muscle car, and the other GM passenger car divisions all wanted their ...

So, the Oldsmobile 442. Sorry, the 4-4-2, depending on the year, anyway. Despite three-number model names being mostly a Porsche thing, there are other three-number ...

If you were a teenaged gearhead in the 1970s, you may very well have hung posters on your wall of the Pontiac GTO and/or Oldsmobile 442. These General Motors cousins were titans of the American ...

The Oldsmobile 442 was an intermediate-sized high-performance muscle car that had a place in the Oldsmobile lineup during most years from mid-1964 until 1991. The original meaning of the 442's name ...

Can we interest you in a great muscle car from the golden days of motoring? It's an Oldsmobile 442 that looks showroom fresh despite leaving the dealer lot over five decades ago, and it's searching ...

“The W-30 version of the car has always been kind of the pinnacle of the Oldsmobile muscle car,” says Mancini. “I’ve always been a fan of not just Chrysler but GM muscle cars from that era and the 442 ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

In the early 1960s, Pontiac was trying to find a new way to attract the youth market without involvement in competitive motorsports. John Z. DeLorean, Russ Gee, and Bill Collins, along with a group of ...