The Ninety Eight, written 98 and later Ninety Eight, was the top of the Oldsmobile range for most of its life, built in twelve generations from 1941 to 1996 on the large C body shared with Cadillac and the Buick Electra, its name a Series 90 fitted with an eight cylinder engine, and in 1995 the Aurora went on sale to replace it. This site gives every generation and every model year its own page, in 12 generations: the first generation, 1941 (1941 to 1941); the second generation, 1942 and 1946 to 1947 (1942 to 1947); the third generation, 1948 to 1953 (1948 to 1953); the fourth generation, 1954 to 1956 (1954 to 1956); the fifth generation, 1957 to 1958 (1957 to 1958); the sixth generation, 1959 to 1960 (1959 to 1960); the seventh generation, 1961 to 1964 (1961 to 1964); the eighth generation, 1965 to 1970 (1965 to 1970); the ninth generation, 1971 to 1976 (1971 to 1976); the tenth generation, 1977 to 1984 (1977 to 1984); the eleventh generation, 1985 to 1990 (1985 to 1990); the twelfth generation, 1991 to 1996 (1991 to 1996).