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-Platform ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steve Toth has kept this 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado under cover at his Spencer home the past 15 to 20 years. SPENCER – When Steve ...

The Oldsmobile Toronado arrived as a radical front-wheel-drive personal luxury coupe, but in the late 1960s it briefly morphed into something far more aggressive with the W-34 performance package.

• This 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado is currently up for auction on Bring a Trailer. • The 1966 model year was the first for the massive front-wheel-drive coupe. • The no-reserve auction ends August 30. In ...

Introduced for the 1966 model year, the Oldsmobile Toronado was a game-changer for the US automobile industry due to its front-wheel-drive architecture. While FWD cars were already a thing in Europe ...

Mark McNabb was a contributor at TopSpeed from 2013 to 2018. Growing up, Mark always had a mind for tinkering on random items throughout his home and dad’s garage, including a 1953 Ford Mainline and ...

Oldsmobile refined the Toronado with every occasion, so the first-generation series received new improvements, either in terms of styling or mechanical, every time a new model year received the ...

For the 1966 model year, General Motors introduced a new E-platform personal luxury car. The Oldsmobile Toronado was different from the Buick Riviera, which was riding on the same platform, in that it ...

Enter the Toronado. Weighing 4800 pounds, 211 inches long, and riding on a 119-inch wheelbase--and the first front-drive production car made in America since the 1937 Cord 810 and 812--it stood 52.8 ...

Kyle has written professionally across the motorsport and motoring world since graduating from Plymouth University in 2018, and has acted as the MotoGP editor for Motorsport Week and as a Features ...

This is the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado and it lives in Jay Leno's Garage. The original MSRP for the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado was $4,158. On the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado, Jay Leno loves the "eyebrow" on ...