There’s a forgotten chapter in American performance car history, buried somewhere between the rise of big-blocks and the muscle car craze of the late ‘60s. It's not from a brand you'd expect to break ...

Introduced in 1962, the Oldsmobile Jetfire was one of America's first turbocharged production cars. The forced induction V8 didn't catch on, and the Jetfire was discontinued after only two years.

The sixties were an era of rebellion in Detroit, and the mutiny often grew to downright “rage against the system” levels. And it was largely Oldsmobile’s fault, what with their idea of putting a big ...

Turbocharged engines are common in cars today, but that all started with the 1962 Oldsmobile Jetfire featured on this episode of "Jay Leno's Garage." It was restored by Eric Jensen, who explains the ...

The Oldsmobile Jetfire represented one of the relatively lesser-known pioneers of turbocharging, something we take for granted on everything from econoboxes to high-speed dedicated race cars. In fact, ...

Oldsmobile and Chevrolet pioneered the technology for mass-market cars, but the turbos flopped — and took decades to gain acceptance. By Roy Furchgott In 1962, rival divisions inside General Motors — ...