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Here is a great place to find out about the terms used by Oldsmobile:
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Close-coupled Sedan: A four window sedan with a trunk that from front to rear, was almost as thin as an upright suitcase. The rear passengers sat slightly forward of the rear wheels.
Colonnade: When used in an Oldsmobile model name, describes a car body that has frameless door glass/window yet kept a center pillar like a 4 door would. Typically the colonnade term was used only on 2 door body cars, but GM also used it on 4 doors, which some believed to be ad agency gibberish. (Dictionary definition: 'a series of columns usually supporting the base of a roof structure'.)
Cabriolet: Basically a convertible. However, a convertible can have any number of doors, but cabriolets usually only have two doors.
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Fiesta: When used in an Oldsmobile model name, usually referred to the car being a station wagon.
Fisher Body Corp.: Major manufacturer of bodies for several major automobile brands including Oldsmobile. At one time they had more than 40 plants, employed more than 100,000 people and pioneered many improvements in tooling and design.
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Holiday: When used in an Oldsmobile model name, usually referred to the car being a hardtop.
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Landaulet: An automobile with a roof over the front seats and rear doors, but with a folding convertible roof over the rear quarters.
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Precision Control System: New for 2001 was an anti-skid system that came into action automatically. If the driver lost control of the car on a slippery surface, PCS helped regain stability and traction without driver intervention. It did this by way of selective braking at individual wheels.
Protect-o-plate: In the mid 60's through to early 70's, GM came up with a plan to better track and provide service to their cars. Printed on a what looked like a metal credit card were codes that provided information as to what major equipment and options or colours a car had.
Phaeton: A Phaeton is a car body style, similar to a sedan or convertible sedan. Typically, the rear seat area is extended for added leg room or for an additional row of seating. This gives the vehicle the appearance that it is meant to be chauffeur-operated.
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Runabout: A car body style that had a single bench seat.
Roadster: Originally a two-seat open car with minimal weather protection — no top was provided, neither any side glass. In some cases an optional hard or soft top might be offered, along with side curtains, but there was no side glass. In modern usage, the term is often used to identify a convertible two-seat sports car.
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Salon: The dictionary definition of Salon is: 1: 'an elegant apartment or living room', 2: 'a hall for exhibition of art', 3: 'a stylish business establishment or shop'. Oldsmobile's Cutlass Salon was introduced as an upscale model. However it later became a base model for the Cutlass line.
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Tonneau: Automobile in which the rear passengers enter through the rear, rather than through a side door. Example: 1904 Olds Light Tonneau 1,2
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