General Motors can be regarded as one of the kings of torque. These are the 10 torquiest engines ever to come out of GM's ...

Introduced in 1968 as part of Oldsmobile's second-generation V8 engine line, the 455 was immediately adopted across a wide ...

For instance, General Motors once owned both Pontiac and Oldsmobile, and each company had its own distinct 455 V8 engine. You might think that GM would want to standardize across all its brands as a ...

Photo: YouTube/Lou Costabile By 1970, the Toronado was rocking the biggest Oldsmobile engine available, the 455 Rocket V8, with its enormous 455-cube displacement (7.5 liters) and equally ...

This 1970 Oldsmobile 442 W-30 Holiday Coupe is a numbers-matching gem with an original engine and a handful of tasteful mods ...

Unfortunately, like most V8 engines of the era, the 455 V8’s performance dwindled over the years as more stringent emissions requirements became established. While Oldsmobile became overshadowed ...

A lot of people have mistakenly thought that 442 was either the engine size ... Hurst dropped the massive 455 Rocket V-8s into 442 models, so technically, it wasn't Oldsmobile doing it, and ...

Essentially, it’s a six-stroke engine that relies on a different stroke ... At 16 I started running parts for an Oldsmobile dealership and got hooked on the car biz. Engineering seemed the ...

Reports of the death of the internal combustion engine have been greatly exaggerated. In the wake of stalled consumer demand and stubbornly high costs, automakers around the world are furiously ...

It's had minor problems over the years, mostly with the window motors and other electrically quirks, but the engine continues ... they would replace the olds, but something always happens to ...

the Oldsmobile Aurora was heavily modified from the stock luxury sedan. Under the hood is a 4.0-liter Northstar L47 V8 gasoline engine, which, stock, develops 250 horsepower and 260 pound-feet of ...

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