Oldsmobile is long gone. By the time the brand was phased out in the early 2000s it was a shell of its former self, but Oldsmobile used to make interesting cars like the 442, Trofeo and Aurora. One of ...

In terms of automaking, the idea of using the same basic bones to underpin multiple car models — known as platform sharing — has been around a long time. There's a good reason for that, too: It can ...