Automakers

The death of Oldsmobile

GM targeted Oldsmobile for extinction in December 2000. The last Alero rolled off the line in April 2004 at GM's car assembly plant in Lansing, Mich.
JL
By:
Jamie LaReau
September 25, 2006 05:00 AM

Alan Starling's Oldsmobile franchise in central Florida had been in his family for 38 years. Oldsmobile itself had been around, in one form or another, since 1897.

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