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Originally Posted by hondafan37
If the Torino had been Lewis Hamilton, This car would have won the 84 hours of Nurburgring!!!!!!
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The Torino as a "winning racecar"in tc is More of an consequence of being a modern car, with more modern-ish engines and with factory support racing the (by the Time) old school cars than it's own qualities, when the other compacts entered the scene, Torino faded away quickly, but it's legend stood. Then the "all powefull" tornado engine showed it's age and peculiarities of design, it's a torquey truck engine, an old truck (for the time) engine, when speeds went up, the thing (long stroke engine) could not keep up with the others, same with the lazy slant 6's, so they were thrown away.
The 84hs were weird, the cars were not legal, weren't stock/factory cars, but then allowed to race, it's an all arround weird thing, and even then, it's not a widely known race outside of Argentina.
It has its épic, sure, and the quad round lights nose it's beauty personified, but the Torino it's not the ultimate racecar that it's said to be.
In fact, never understood the "with the tornado, it would won it all, so they changed it" coments, the Torino was dying because the damm engine couldn't race the others for power* on equivalent displacement! But then myths are myths.
*The piston speed needed for the rpm (and consequently, power) would be faster than the combustion part of the cycle of the engine, crashing with it's own explosion.