10 Best Selling American Cars of All Time

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6. Oldsmobile Cutlass

The Oldsmobile company labeled a large number of their cars with the Cutlass badge, many of them very different from each other. There was the Cutlass Calais for the compact crowd, the Cutlass Ciera was the midsize submission, the high performance Oldsmobile 442 was given the Cutlass name, and there was even a Cutlass wagon. The model most remember and praise was the Cutlass Supreme, this midsize car that was the best selling passenger car of 1976. The Supreme was given a number of sport-treatments in its time, with Oldsmobile’s 5.0L (307 CID) V8 engine as the power plant, and Hurst three stick Lightning Rods shifters. 1988 saw the end of the rear wheel drive Cutlass Supremes, switching over to more popular front wheel drive. By the end of its life in 1999, the Cutlass Supreme had sold 11.9 million units.