but that didn't stop Americans from buying better than a half-million examples of the somewhat smaller Olds. Here's a magazine advertisement for the upscale 1978 Cutlass Supreme Brougham two-door ...

General Motors put Oldsmobile's neck on the chopping block in 2004, which wasn't so long after the period during which the Oldsmobile Cutlass reigned Supreme—get it?—as the best-selling car in the ...