Instead, we’re focusing on a lesser talked-of machine from the same year: the Oldsmobile Toronado GT. I know that the usual Olds performance machine from the Golden Era is the 4-4-2 W-30 ...

Strangely, Oldsmobile chose to alter the front of ... Finding one today – a 1970 Toronado GT, I mean – isn’t exactly a day-to-day occurrence, and finding one in good condition is downright ...

For 1971, Oldsmobile’s pioneering front-wheel-drive ... We had an opportunity to drive this ’71 back-to-back with Jim’s ’70 Toronado GT around a high-desert loop near his Chino Valley ...

We liked them, but we will never understand what makes them GT. What is the Toronado, anyway? Even Oldsmobile will admit that it has never been a howling success in the sales reports. Why not?

While the vast majority of classic car buyers go for quarter-mile busting muscle cars, the Oldsmobile Toronado stands out as a sleek, sophisticated piece of design with some interesting history ...

How the Oldsmobile Toronado became a pioneer in the world of safety technology. In 1973, the “Air Cushion Restraint System” ...

The Oldsmobile Toronado was new for the 1966 model year. It was a personal luxury car that lifted elements of GM’s other personal luxury car, the Buick Riviera. Although the Toronado was an E ...

Even a luxury car like the Oldsmobile Toronado could support the Rocket 455, though that only lasted a short number of years. Like the Pontiac 455, the Rocket 455 would quickly lose its luster ...

The Cutlass Supreme became America's bestseller in the 1970s, leading Oldsmobile to a million-plus sales and third place behind Chevy and Ford. The brutal reality is the Toronado made little ...

The 1977 Oldsmobile Toronado XSR was peak Malaise. This was a coupe that’s as long as a frigate, weighed as much as an apartment complex and moved as slow as one, and had all the right lines and ...

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 ...