Talk:Oldsmobile Toronado

message: I took out the metric measurement added to the Olds 442, as this was a model number and did not indicate engine size.
* But you left in the 7 L engine size!   ):   Moriori 03:56, Apr 7, 2004 (UTC)
I don't see the point of changing CID to the odd notation with a superscripted 3 on the end, but I'm assuming this is a Wikipedia quirk that I haven't grasped yet, so I've left it alone. RivGuySC 03:44, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Header 

message: No, it wasn't the first FWD automatic. The "UPP" was an unusual application, though, with the split torque converter.
ArgentLA 18:47, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not the first... 

message: Here is the information you have been waiting for.
--Toronado Man 13:12, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's an interesting article, but much of it relies on conjecture versus empirical evidence. It does not authoritatively verify that the 7.5 sec 0-60 time you've added to the Wikipedia. The "true performance" article admits that it "extrapolates" the 0-60 time from a British test that cited a 0-50 and a 0-80 time. I think the 0-60 of 7.5 should be qualified in the article as "extrapolated." OhNoitsJamieTalk 19:07, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  1966 Oldsmobile Toronado Performance 

message: i am interested in adding some info on the 68 toronado. prob some thisngs like the 455 cu. in. block it has and its an electric door from windows to the seats and a pic. any body interested in telling me if theres anything else you want to be put on this car info?--Tenkosama (talk) 02:19, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  68 toronado 

message: There was a fascinating hybrid of  car and caravan constructed as a one off. Sadly  one of the patrolmen who police these  pages regards mentioning any such vehicle however interesting or cogent as being something that  would permit any old customization job to be listed. Have a look here 
http://blog.cardomain.com/tag/toronado/  (scroll down)  
Also Toranado front wheel drive unit was revolutionary at the time and quite different in its design from the 1938 Cord and some earlier cars. It became the drive for the GM motorhome which was revolutionary for its time with air bag suspension and a lower floor height (allowed by the lack of a central drive shaft necessary if you use the conventional rear wheel drive). There is a club dedicated to preserving and using these units. A more interesting use of the Toronada drive system was the mounting of two of them in a single car and using it as a four wheel drive dragster. Coordinating the power of the engines seemed to be their biggest problem, since the weight shift on rapid acceleration caused the front wheels to lift (from the torque developed by the rear engine) and then lose traction. --Tumadoireacht (talk) 16:35, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Toronado and Airstream Hybrid

message: I managed to get some images of the 67X. This may be the only one of the original four that remains in good shape. I think only two are known to still exist. The images are in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Toronado_67X Once they clear OTRS we should decide on which image to include.--Canoe1967 (talk) 15:48, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  67X 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: "Rear Toronado suspension was a simple beam axle on single leaf springs, unusual only in having dual shock absorbers, one vertical, one horizontal (allowing it to act as a radius rod to control wheel movement). "
How can a shock absorber act as a radius rod? The entire point of a radius rod is that it is of a fixed length, and acts to confine the moving axle to the arc described by the swinging end of the rod. A shock in a car has a telescoping action; the axle would be able to wander forward and backward several inches. There is also no obvious need for a shock absorber running horizontally from the axle. Shock absorbers are to soak up vertical shock loads. I suspect this is someone's ill-advised original research. Someone looked at a Toronado suspension and saw that two of the 4 shocks ran at an angle forward from the rear axle. This looks similar to a radius rod, but it is a totally different thing. You can see the same on many pickups.
64.223.105.254 (talk) 05:26, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  A radius rod controls longitudinal movement of the axle.  A vehicle with leaf springs does not need this, because the spring itself controls fore-and-aft movement (occasionally on a high-powered car you'd have a torque-arm, which serves to prevent the rear end housing rotating, and is similar in appearance to a radius rod - these often will have a shock absorber to allow more gentle application of the torque to the tires - however none of this would apply to a front drive car like the Toronado).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:589:380:130B:E057:D598:70C5:DAF0 (talk) 00:12, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  No sense 

message: It really ought to say one way or the other.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gjxj (talk • contribs) 
:The infobox at the the top of the article (which covers all generations) says FF layout, which means front engine, front wheel drive.
:Don't forget to sign your comments with ~~~~ at the end.  Stepho  talk  02:44, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  are second gens front drive?