The
Ford Torino
was an transitional car shaped by
the
Ford Motor Company for the US north American market among 1968
and 1976. It was originally an chic version of the midway sized
Ford
Fairlane, Ford produced between 1962 and 1970. After 1968 the
Fairlane wears the
Torino name. 1968 the
Torino was
careful a subseries to the Fairlane. By
1970 the
Ford Torino name had
become the primary name for
Ford's in-between, Fairlane in 1968 was a
subseries of the
Ford Torino. In 1971 the Fairlane name was dropped
altogether and all Ford intermediates were called
Torinos.
Torino
is Italian for the city of Turin, the Detroit of Italy. This name was one of
numerous originally planned for the
Mustang while in progress.
