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The GMC Envoy was launched for 2002 as an upscale, "professional grade" iteration of the prolific General Motors GMT-360 midsize SUV platform that has spawned the Buick Rainier, Chevrolet TrailBlazer, Oldsmobile Bravada, and most recently, ...

A new front-wheel drive Malibu was introduced in 1997 on an extended wheelbase version of the GM N platform with Pontiac Grand Am, Buick Skylark, Oldsmobile Achieva, and Oldsmobile Alero.

I had been convinced by my wife that my 94 Oldsmobile was on its last wheel and that I needed to buy something new. She, having lived in Ireland for two years, was looking for something great on gas and cheap on insurance.

General Motors introduced front wheel drive in the Oldsmobile Toronado in 1966 and Cadillac Eldorado in 1967. (Buick Riviera remained rear-wheel-drive until 1979).

It began life as the XP-882, a mid-engined prototype using a 400 CID V8 mated to an Oldsmobile Toronado transaxle.

In fact, overhead valves were considered quite advanced when they appeared on Oldsmobile's Rocket V8 engine and Cadillac's V8 of 1949.

I remember mid-sized American cars like the 2001 Oldsmobile Intrigue or 2004 Chevy Malibu, so I was expecting something that size. Maybe compact is the new mid-size, but the interior still felt very small for a mid-sized car.

It matched polished accents like the Oldsmobile dipstick, Chevy radiator cap and smoothed OBD1 valve cover. The fuel rail utilized black anodized braided lines and was folded inside the frame rails.

He spent most of his life as a toolmaker and machinist, but his automobile industry career did not begin until 1901, when Ransom Olds asked Leland to build transmissions for a new line of cars, called Oldsmobiles.

s2kguy, back in 1961 my dad had an Oldsmobile with a speedometer that had a line that moved from left to right. It started out green, changed to orange at about 55mph and red at 75.

Well, so was the Oldsmobile Achieva. And just like the Achieva, no amount of marketing and media shots of active couples rampaging around the country side will convince me the Toyota Innova is anything more than a marketing focus group's bastard ...

Just for fun, let's imagine that Pontiac hasn't joined Oldsmobile and Geo in the great GM brand graveyard (located amongst a block of abandoned buildings in Detroit).

It's slow and crude, with the worst steering since the 1903 Curved Dash Oldsmobile, which was steered by a tiller.

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At one time Buick was the largest car maker in the United States, which allowed its owners to acquire other companies such as Cadillac, Oldsmobile and Pontiac giving birth to the General Motors Corporation.

GMs midsize SUVs, the Chevrolet TrailBlazer, GMC Envoy and Oldsmobile Bravada, offer a 4.2-liter straight-six producing 270 horsepower and 275 pounds-feet of torque, but those truck-based SUVs are about 200 pounds heavier than the Pilot.

See also: Ford, Pontiac, Buick, Toyota, Chevrolet