The 1976 Ford Gran Torino arrived at the tail end of Detroit’s big-car era, a moment when size was still a selling point even ...

Almost, because there were some signs of resistance – Ford, for example, grew some extra chest hair and restyled the Gran Torino from the ground up. A new body-on-frame layout, a Coke bottle profile, ...

Jay Traugott has been writing about and testing cars for over a decade. His passion for everything with four wheels began when he saw "Back to the Future" as a kid. The DeLorean DMC-12 remains his ...

As you may have deduced from the title of this story, the owner, Gunnison Jones, isn't old enough to drive just yet, but that hasn't stopped him from getting the Gran Torino out on the streets and ...

"Hey, you kids, get off my lawn!" has never carried quite the resounding curmudgeon-next-door rancor as it does spewing forth from the locked-and-loaded lips of Clint Eastwood. This is one scary old ...

If Clint Eastwood wins his first Academy Award for acting come February, besting Sean Penn for “Milk” and Mickey Rourke for “The Wrestler” among other probable nominees, it’ll be like 1971 all over ...

The ads make "Gran Torino" look like "Dirty Old Harry," but it's rather more than that. Directed by 79-year-old Clint Eastwood, who also stars, it turns into an often-funny, poignant meditation on ...

Although this final generation Torino may conjure up images of the ‘Starsky & Hutch’ car from the seventies television series, that car, a notched-backed member of the ‘73 and up club, was homely ...

In the grand “Gran Torino,” Clint Eastwood’s loutish Walt Kowalski is 25 years older than his Dirty Harry Callahan day-making character from “Sudden Impact,” but that threatening growl is indubitable.

Nick Schenk’s Gran Torino screenplay wasn’t written with Eastwood in mind as the film’s star and director, but you’d never guess that was the case, so comfortably does the film fit the lauded ...

For anyone who thought we would never see a Clint Eastwoodcharacter less of a social animal than the plain-spoken DirtyHarry, well, meet Walt Kowalski. He may not be so pleased to meetyou, though, or ...

The first time I saw the trailer for this film in a theater, the audience laughed. It portrayed a senile, furrow-browed Clint Eastwood brandishing a gun and barking at Asian people to “get off my lawn ...