The Ford Torino is an intermediate

Mid-size car

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 automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company

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 for the North America

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n market between 1968 and 1976. The car was named after the city of Turin

Turin

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 (Torino, in Italian), which is considered the Detroit (primary automobile production city) of Italy

Italy

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. The Torino was initially an upscale version of the intermediate sized Ford Fairlane

Ford Fairlane

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, which Ford produced between 1962 and 1970. After 1968, the Fairlane name was retained for the base models with lower levels of trim than those models which wore the Torino name.