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Machine: 425 cubic twelfth part of a foot V8

Aspiration: intercooled geminate turbos

Torque: 1000 lb-ft @ 4750 rpm

HP: 1070 hp @ 6350 rpm

HP/Liter: 153 hp per liter
(from GM Squeeze Release) Combining the vintage turn of expression of the 1966 Olds Toronado with the contemporaneous punch of a 1,070-horsepower doubled-turbocharged V-8 GM Doing Parts model crate machine, Jay Leno cruises Burbank , Calif. in a sophisticated combine of classic manner of writing and cutting-cutting side technology.

Equipped with made up of many parts under meditation by GM Performance Accomplishments (GMPP), the Toronado has a residence of factors-look arrival, with restored bodywork and a mostly stem interior – but under the sheet metal lies a modified C5 Sloop of war chassis and hanging, along with the sophisticated doubled-turbocharged type crate machine and a Corvette hind part transaxle.

“This is a vintage American rejoin to expensive European elevated tourers,” Leno uttered. “There is an palpable character here that exemplifies positive American car concoct – and it right happens to be backed up by, oh, a ten hundred horsepower and the reflexes of a Sloop of war.”The car was built at Leno’s Big Dog Garage, in suburban Los Angeles , under the aim of builder Bernard Juchli.

Leno was attracted to the Toronado for its distinguishing styling and historical meaning – it was the first tall-volume front-move on wheels-drive car produced by GM. It was originally powered by a 425-cubic-twelfth part of a foot V-8 that was connected to the front wheels via a sinewy transaxle, a connection which pre-dated the assiduity’s almost universal change to front-wheel impel by about 15 years.

The groundbreaking styling was the act of GM’s famed designer Bill Mitchell, who styled an automobile that was lauded by critics when new and has been remembered as one of the most of great weight design statements of the 1960s.“It was a in advance-looking car almost 40 years ago and its turn of expression still looks contemporaneous today,” Leno related. “The projecting fender flares are features you see on countless new vehicles, so the car still has a lancinating pain, contemporary direct the eye when you apply generally received trends of a piece 17-twelfth part of a foot wheels and tires – it’s a of nature fit.”

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