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The Oldsmobile Toronado is a personal luxury car manufactured and marketed by the Oldsmobile division of General Motors from 1966 to 1992 over four generations. The Toronado was noted for its transaxle version of GM's Turbo-Hydramatic transmission, making it the first U.S.-produced front-wheel drive automobile since the demise of the Cord 810/812 in 1937.
Then about 20 years ago, he was perusing cars for sale at the Kesler-Schaefer Auto Auction in Indianapolis. There it was: a gold 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado, telescopic steering wheel and all, with ...
1966 Oldsmobile Toronado 1988 Oldsmobile Toronado Troféo. The General Motors E platform or E-body was the automobile platform designation used for a number of personal luxury cars produced from 1963 to 2002.
Toronado: 1966: 1992 Hurst/Olds: 1968: 1984 Notes 1970–1989. Image Model Intr. Disc. ... List of Oldsmobile vehicles. Add languages ...
The Oldsmobile Toronado Trofeo is included in the book Automotive Atrocities! The Cars We Love to Hate with author Eric Peters writing, "When it appeared in 1966, the front wheel drive Oldsmobile Toronado was a show-stopper – one of those "gotta-have" cars that young men pine for almost as much as cheerleaders. Twenty years later, a miserable ...
Trofeo (Italian and Spanish for trophy) may refer to: Trofeo Maserati, a one-make racing series; Maserati Trofeo, a type of car raced in the series mentioned above; Oldsmobile Troféo, a variant of the fourth generation Oldsmobile Toronado
Oldsmobile (formally the Oldsmobile Division of General Motors) was a brand of American automobiles, produced for most of its existence by General Motors.Originally established as "Olds Motor Vehicle Company" by Ransom E. Olds in 1897, it produced over 35 million vehicles, including at least 14 million built at its Lansing, Michigan, factory alone.
Hurst Hairy Olds is the name given to a pair of exhibition funny cars campaigned by Hurst Performance in 1966 and 1967.. Developed with help from General Motors engineer John Beltz, the Hurst Hairy Olds was built to be a showcase for the then-new chain-driven automatic transaxle of the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado as well as a rival to the Hurst Hemi Under Glass.