Generalizations: the Five Best GM Cars Ever and the Five Worst

February 19, 2018

Oldsmobile Toronado (First Generation)

Oldsmobile are a brand that don’t really get talked about all that often, but when they got it right, they knocked it clean out of the park. The Toronado is one such case. Powered by an innovative (for the time) front-wheel drive system, the tech didn’t stop there. The Toronado also featured Turbo-Hydramatic three-speed automatic transmission, a Quadrajet four-barrel carb, and a ventilation system which reduced wind noise dramatically. It was also the first subframe automobile GM produced, and was powered by a mighty 455 cubic inch Rocket V8. This let the 5000 pound car hit 60 in just 7.5 seconds. How’s about that?

The car was a beauty, but the beauty wasn’t only skin (or rather, panelling) deep. Step inside, and you’d find one of GM’s most unconventional interiors, with a slot machine speedo and stylized wheel. The cars are something of a collectible these days, and are well worth checking out. They’re strange, experimental monsters, that are still as fun to drive today as they were in the 1960s.

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