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1. Is the Oldsmobile Toronado a muscle car?
2. What year was Olds Toronado front wheel drive?
3. Is a 1966 Toronado front wheel drive?
4. What is special about the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado?
5. Where is the Mannix Toronado?
6. What is an Oldsmobile 442?
7. Was the Oldsmobile Toronado a good car?
8. Are there any FWD muscle cars?
9. What was the first front wheel drive car?
10. Is 1968 Toronado front wheel drive?
11. What brand of car is a tornado?

Is the Oldsmobile Toronado a muscle car?

The car stayed in production a few years down the line which brought out the 1968 Oldsmobile Toronado which is now an iconic classic muscle car. The Oldsmobile's futuristic looks and innovation have been attributed to fuel the spark of the muscle car craze.

What year was Olds Toronado front wheel drive?

Then, in 1966, Oldsmobile introduced the first American front-wheel-drive car in thirty years: the Toronado. The luxurious coupe was one of GM's many ripostes to Ford's Thunderbird, but the Olds stood out for its advanced powertrain in a dramatic package that was a showstopper in its day. And still is.

Is a 1966 Toronado front wheel drive?

Long, smoky front-wheel burnouts follow. The 385-hp 1966 Toronado was America's first front-driver since the 1930s, though GM had been playing with the idea for more than a decade. ... Its 15-inch wheels paid homage to Gordon Buehrig's front-wheel-drive coffin-nose Cord 810 of 1936.

What is special about the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado?

This famous trio dominated the personal luxury car niche for many years. The 1966 Olds Toronado had the largest interior in its class. With the revolutionary new front-wheel drive, there is no transmission tunnel. It was astounding, without the traditional transmission hump there is more room than a Cadillac.

Where is the Mannix Toronado?

According to Dragone, the current owner of the Toronado bought the car at that auction and has since displayed it in a private museum in Tennessee along with a couple other Barris creations: the 1928 Porter from "My Mother the Car" and the "Rickshaw Taxi" that Barris displayed at the 1970 Tokyo World's Fair.

What is an Oldsmobile 442?

The Oldsmobile 4-4-2 (also known as the 442) is a muscle car produced by Oldsmobile between the 1964 and 1987 model years. ... Because of this change, from 1965 on, according to Oldsmobile brochures and advertisements, the 4-4-2 designation referred to the 400 cubic inch engine, four-barrel carburetor, and dual exhausts.

Was the Oldsmobile Toronado a good car?

The Oldsmobile Toronado was a dangerous luxury car. Many of these cars had to be recalled because of a wide variety of safety concerns. Over the years the car became increasingly unreliable and unsafe to drive, this eventually led to the car being discontinued in 1992.

Are there any FWD muscle cars?

Some of the initial cars were the Ford Fairlane and Chevrolet Bel Air. The latter became the Impala in 1957. ... Unlike anything Chevrolet had yet created, this new Impala SS was an FWD full-size muscle sedan. A small-block 5.3 LS4 V8 powered it to generate 303 bhp, 438 Nm.

What was the first front wheel drive car?

The 1929 Cord L-29 (Phaeton) was the U.S.' first front-wheel drive production car, as well as the world's first to sport constant-velocity joints.

Is 1968 Toronado front wheel drive?

Yes folks, this sleek 1968 Oldsmobile Toronado is V8-powered with front-wheel drive and over 500 lb ft of torque. ... The Toronado debuted in 1966 as a higher-end two-door luxury car from General Motors, featuring a big, longitudinally-mounted V8 driving the front wheels through an automatic transmission.

What brand of car is a tornado?

Ford Performance Vehicles F6 Tornado.