The Oldsmobile Limited is a car from Oldsmobile, built from 1910 to 1912, as the assembly line was turning motoring into an industry. Under the bonnet: NNN cuin.
The story
The Oldsmobile Limited was a top-level passenger car produced by GM's Oldsmobile Division in 1910, offered as an upgraded replacement to the Oldsmobile Model Z when it was discontinued in 1909. The Oldsmobile Limited was very large and expensive in comparison to vehicles offered by competitors, and was manufactured in Lansing, Michigan.
It was the senior model to the mid-level Oldsmobile Autocrat of which it shared much of its technology while the Autocrat was smaller, and was replaced by the Oldsmobile Light Eight. It was also much larger than GM's lop level brand, the Cadillac Model Thirty which only had a four cylinder engine, and the Buick Model 10 which made the Limited the most expensive vehicle GM offered at the time.
What is underneath
Power comes from NNN cuin. It weighs NNN -. The wheelbase is NNN in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Oldsmobile Model Z; assembly was at Lansing, Michigan (Lansing Car Assembly), United States. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Ford Model T, the Vauxhall B-Type, the Alfa Romeo A.L.F.A 24 HP — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Oldsmobile catalogue sit the Oldsmobile 442 and the Oldsmobile 88.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Oldsmobile Limited has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.