What do you mean? At the current time they are all mixed up, not organized at all by any means...

I was eventually waiting for other people to comment.
I prefer to not change too quickly if some are already well named, in case we decide to name some years with numbers and some with letters.

So... is this it? The discussion is over? No concrete solution or fix? I was hoping this topic wouldn't turn out this way (as the previous one did)

Well I think the redirecting thing would be a good idea, but it might be quite a bit of work for you antp, no? But in the meantime I think the best solution is to change them all to numbered names "88" and "98" just to make it more organized and easy to catolauge. After all, they can always be changed later if they need to, right?

Here's something we hadn't thought about. Even when we do find a solution to this problem, what about when new models are added to the site? Not all admins would know which to use, especially if we do it on a yearly basis for each model. Maybe we could put some guidelines up? Or someone who knows which is the correct one to use can keep an eye out for new ones and correct mistakes?

I broke down when Oldsmobile used each name style above. I'm not positive about the changeover between 98 and Ninety Eight, but I think it's close enough. If it isn't right, it wouldn't be very much work for someone who knows better to correct it.
If we've got the redirects going I don't see the problem with naming each generation the way Oldsmobile did.

It could be possible, I just would have to add it.
It already exists for some makes (e.g. VW, Chevy, Olds, ... redirect to full-name, and some names with or without dash redirect to the same make without or with dash)

But we still have to decide what do do: having both name styles for a same model is not good.

I'm still in favour of keeping the names in line with what the manufacturer called them, but I agree that this creates a non-user friendly situation.
Ideally, the search feature would bring up both models when someone searches for either, but I don't know if that would be possible to code.

Well maybe some others want to still give arguments in favor of letters, or want to discuss the subject?

Ok, making all the models numbers sounds fine to me. I guess that is the simplest solution after all, now that I think about it. You can just change it to that then I guess, problem solved

I usually prefer numbers because usually people will search that I think, and also because it solves the "dash or space" problem. We were using letters only for cars where we were absolutely sure they were nevery using the numbers.
For Oldsmobile I cannot help so just notify me when changes have to be made I know that this problem is pending since some time, but there never was a decision taken I think.