In the spring of 1972, Scott Geller’s father Steve traded in his ’68 Ford Mustang fastback car for a brand-new ’72 Gran Torino Sport fastback with the Q-code 351 Cobra Jet V-8. The reasoning for this ...

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 ...

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.

"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 ...

The ’72 Ford Gran Torino Sport packs muscle with its 351 Cobra Jet engine and bold styling. Lou Costabile takes us through the details of this classic, from its performance heritage to its standout ...

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 ...

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 ...