Approach used by Oldsmobile Div to develop improved vehicle; use of front wheel drive system, in which all power and driving components are combined into single unit ahead of passenger compartment proved to be important element in attaining goal; review of major components and their arrangement discloses areas of outstanding achievement in design, such as chassis, unitized power package consisting of engine, transmission, and differential, and body construction; final phase of program involved building of 37 pilot production cars which provided manufacturing plant with advance experience in assembling car and 3 mo of final test experience on production cars.
Overall look at Toronado -- New breed of automobile
Gen Motors Eng J
General Motors Engineering Journal ; 13 , n 1
1966
7 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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