Ford Gran Torino

Here are Ford Gran Torino reviews, pictures, and history. Below we present a review of the Ford Gran Torino, classic cars that are popular around the world. The Ford Torino is an intermediate automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company for the North American market between 1968 and 1976.

The car was named after the city of Turin (Torino, in Italian), which is considered the Detroit (primary automobile production city) of Italy. The Torino was initially an upscale version of the intermediate sized Ford Fairlane, which Ford produced between 1962 and 1970.

 

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For the pilot episode, two 1975 Ford Gran Torino were used, both 2-doors powered by a 351 Windsor V8. Glaser did his best to wreck as many as he could during the course of the series, often slamming them up against sidewalks at high speed. Fortunately, the Torino remained unchanged from 1974 ‘till 1976, allowing production to replace these quite readily.

After 1968, the Fairlane name was retained for the base models with lower levels of trim than those models which wore the Torino name. During this time, the Torino was considered a subseries to the Fairlane. By 1970 Torino had become the primary name for Ford’s intermediate, and the Fairlane was now a subseries of the Torino. In 1971 the Fairlane name was dropped altogether and all Ford intermediates were called Torino. This name was one of several originally proposed for the Mustang while in development.

The show started by using a 1975 Gran Torino and updated to the 1976 model for its second, third and fourth seasons. These cars were built at a time in history when horsepower was being replaced by fuel economy and environmental standards. The forty four hundred pound Ford was not the quickest off the block with the base 351 c.i. engine – it really wasn’t a muscle car but it just looked good.

In 1976 Ford introduced a very limited edition (1,002) Starsky and Hutch replicas of the Gran Torino. It was the same car that was used in the show and could run up to over $7,000 with all the options. The 1976 Torino was the last and final Gran Torino before Ford replaced it with the LTD name and product line.

 

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