High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! TorqueFlite (also seen as Torqueflite) is the trademarked name of Chrysler Corporation`s automatic transmissions, starting with the three-speed unit introduced late in the 1956 model year as a successor to Chrysler`s two-speed PowerFlite. In the 1990s, the TorqueFlite name was dropped in favor of alphanumeric designations.