Going full throttle at the B.O., Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino” grossed $29 million from 2,808 locations to win the weekend and rack up Eastwood’s best nationwide opening of all time, both as an actor ...

Introduced as a luxury-oriented, budget-friendly midsize car for the 1972 model year, the Gran Torino and its sister cars — the Gran Torino Sport and the original Torino (in production since 1968) — ...

The 1976 Ford Gran Torino arrived at the tail end of Detroit’s big-car era, a moment when size was still a selling point even as fuel prices and regulations were starting to bite. By then, Ford had ...

Almost, because there were some signs of resistance – Ford, for example, grew some extra chest hair and restyled the Gran Torino from the ground up. A new body-on-frame layout, a Coke bottle profile, ...