T he Torino is kind of like the Taurus in that it's a popular Ford nameplate that never really crossed the bridge to ...

effectively appealing to neither market as well as a dedicated platform (which Ford offered with the Thunderbird and Mustang II, respectively). This effectively sealed the fate of the Gran Torino ...

Even the Gran Torino itself — in the mid-1970s ... outside of improving upon its luxury aspects. Unlike the Mustang II, the Torino was a body-on-frame design, so it couldn't feasibly be shrunken ...