Retreat Into Solid Luxury with 1978 Olds Cutlass Supreme Brougham
General Motors put Oldsmobile's neck on the chopping block in 2004, which wasn't so long after the period during which the Oldsmobile Cutlass reigned Supreme—get it?—as the best-selling car in the United States: the 1975 through 1981 model years.
The Cutlass was downsized for 1978, but that didn't stop Americans from buying better than a half-million examples of the somewhat smaller Olds. Here's a magazine advertisement for the upscale 1978 Cutlass Supreme Brougham two-door, with plenty of cushy velour inside and a padded landau roof up top.
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