Oldsmobile 442/FE3-X
don’t think I am being too controversial if I say that the Eighties was an odd decade for the development of American cars, particularly performance ones. The angular styling was certainly odd, at least to European eyes, and the engineers were still fighting the legislation that had effectively killed off the muscle car in the Seventies. Oldsmobile was still keen to compete in the performance market while maintaining its reputation for upmarket luxury vehicles. In 1985 Bill Porterfield, future systems and technology
