It might not have been the most popular muscle car, but it was the first. The late 1960s and early 1970s were undeniably the most popular time for the American muscle car, before emissions standards ...

Before the muscle car wars had names, before Pontiac’s GTO and Chrysler’s Road Runner strutted across billboards, there was the Oldsmobile 88. Back in 1949, Oldsmobile dropped a Rocket V8 into a ...

Oh no, an asterisk! All right, there are other possible firsts. How about the 1932 Ford V8? It ticks the boxes and Clyde Barrow of "Bonnie and Clyde" fame allegedly wrote a letter bragging about its ...

The Oldsmobile Rocket V8 did more than make one model quick in a straight line. It forced Detroit’s engineers to rethink how much power, efficiency, and durability could be packaged into a compact, ...