Pioneer automaker
The crossword clue "Pioneer automaker" is answered by OLDS, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
OLDS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OLDS answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- DURYEA (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for OLDS
Every other clue in this collection answered by OLDS, most used first.
- Auto pioneer - used 85 times, most recently in 2024
- Early automaker - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Automobile pioneer - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
- Automotive pioneer - used 32 times, most recently in 2018
- Ford contemporary - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Cutlass, e.g. - used 21 times, most recently in 2020
- Part of REO - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- Early carmaker - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Cutlass maker - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
- Automaker Ransom Eli -- - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Henry Ford contemporary - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Cutlass, for one - used 12 times, most recently in 2016
- Auto pioneer Ransom - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Bygone automaker - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
- Ransom Eli ___ - used 11 times, most recently in 2007
- Bygone GM line - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Auto industry pioneer - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Ransom of note - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
- Bygone carmaker, informally - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Cutlass automaker - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Former GM make - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- GM make until 2004 - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Ransom of cars - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- The O in REO - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Automaker Ransom - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Bygone GM division - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Carmaker Ransom - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Early automaker Ransom E. __ - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Ransom of automobiles - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Elevator pioneer - OTIS, used 65 times
- Synthesizer pioneer - MOOG, used 53 times
- Automaker Ferrari - ENZO, used 52 times
- German automaker - AUDI, used 43 times
- German automaker - OPEL, used 43 times
- Italian automaker - FIAT, used 38 times
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