Rear-Wheel Drive More Fun Than Front-Wheel Drive?

[OzJavelin]

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

I always wondered how it didn't rip the drivers arms off with torque steer with the big block torque off the line. How did they prevent this?

As far as I understand it, it was because the driveshafts were even length. The engine being N/S rather than E/W, with the auto tucked up under one bank with the diff allowed this.

Despite what people like to think, American's aren't / weren't stupid and Oldsmobile put a lot of thought into the Toronado. Until then, most people thought anything over 2-litres as FWD was impossible; a number of Toronados were apparently bought by other (European) manufacturers to reverse engineer what GM had done. Despite it's weight, size a torque apparently it was a good handling car .. only let down my the usual American drum brakes (front discs optional in 1967)