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 ...

If not for a fire, outside investors and one prototype, the Olds Curved Dash Runabout might have been just an interesting vehicle rather than a step in the mass production of affordable cars. Olds ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Curved Dash Oldsmobile was simplicity itself, with a 1.6-litre single-cylinder engine that developed seven horsepower. This is a 1903 model. Songs that were inspired by cars seemed to peak in the ...