The 1991 GMC Syclone is often overshadowed by its contemporaries, yet it holds a unique place in automotive history due to ...
In the era of V12-powered SUVs with Prancing Horse badges and 700 horsepower pickup trucks, perhaps a hot rod GMC truck is a little less shocking. It's easy to overlook how unprecedented it was upon ...
Back during the wacky 1990s, automakers decided that sporty SUVs and trucks might be the next big thing – and General Motors entered the arms race with the Chevrolet 454 SS and GMC Typhoon plus ...
Introduced in 1925, the Ford Model T “Runabout with Pickup Body” is widely considered a first. Come 1978, crosstown rival Dodge rolled out another first in the guise of the Lil’ Red Express. The ...
In the early 1990s, a compact GMC pickup quietly rewrote the performance rulebook. The GMC Syclone arrived as a short-bed work truck on paper, yet it accelerated with the ferocity of contemporary ...
Nowadays, it's easy to take performance trucks for granted with mega-horsepower brutes like the Ram TRX and Ford Raptor available to anybody with a thick enough wallet, but thirty years ago, the idea ...
If someone ever invents a time machine, we’re inclined to head back to 1991. The Cold War was over, the U.S economy was healthy, real estate still appreciated in value and the quickest car in America ...
The GMCs changed the game, combining "sport" and "truck" in a revolutionary way. But, the Syclone compact pickup and Typhoon SUV only found a few die-hard fans; GMC sold a few thousand of the former ...
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Nigel first entered the world of automotive journalism in the mid-80s, working for what was then the “bible” of weekly automotive content - Motoring News. Those were the days of tip-tap typewriters, ...
When a rare GMC Syclone was stolen from an owner who had fallen on hard times, it looked likely the performance pickup truck wouldn’t be recovered. But an upstanding member of the GMC truck community ...
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