Back when compact, two-door pickup trucks were still around in the early 1990s, GMC had the wild idea to create a performance version of its Sonoma. Called the GMC Syclone, the pickup’s combination of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Before crazy trucks took over the market, the virtually identical turbocharged GMC Syclone pickup truck destroyed the idea that sports cars had to be non-crazy. The GMC gave trucks and SUVs ...
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 ...
Khris is a Mechanical Engineer and a classic car aficionado, who adores his Jags, Alfas, and old-school American muscle cars. He keeps tabs on everything from super exotics like an old EB 110 to the ...
Shortly after Chevrolet took the veils off the 454 SS for the 1990 model year, GMC revealed the much rarer Syclone. Fewer than 3,000 were produced, all of them featuring the almighty 4.3-liter LB4 ...
Around three decades ago, no one discussed the high-performance truck capabilities of the 2021 Ram TRX versus the 2021 F-150 Raptor. Instead, most truck fans were duking it out with Chevy’s 454 SS ...
As product planners are wringing their hands and sweating bullets over new bells and whistles that they hope will attract reluctant buyers, one GM division is making a bold move to take command of the ...
In the early 1990s, General Motors built two different hot rod pickups that would both haul stuff, haul a couple people, and haul the mail in glossy, blacked-out fashion. In 1990, Chevrolet rolled out ...
The GMC Syclone holds a special place in the heart of many automotive enthusiasts, breaking the mold as one of the first true high-performance pickups. Launched in 1991, the Syclone paired the ...
Directly on the heels of record-setting car and truck sales in Indianapolis comes Mecum Auctions' big bid in Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 9-11. And, when it comes to performance trucks that will cross the ...