I don't really care what Oldsmobile called it. Never have been much into what the factory thought it should be called or what it should be used for. What I do know is that for it's day, the car ran very strong !!! After one big wreck with the '57, the motor and trans went into a '50 Olds slantback. A tranny guy buy the name of Jim Haney reworked the automatic, probably one of the first manual valve bodies around this part of the country. The car could more than hold it's own street racing, took lunch money away from a lot of the rich kids driving the "factory hot rods" of the day. Which I had it back.!!!!!!!