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When the 1991 GMC Syclone rewrote performance math
The 1991 GMC Syclone did not just nudge pickup performance forward, it detonated the curve. In an era when trucks were still ...
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 ...
High-performance trucks are anything but unusual nowadays but things were quite different a few decades ago. Because carmakers didn't start taking fast haulers seriously until the 1990s. Sure, Dodge ...
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 ...
The original GMC Syclone was a bonkers performance truck before those were even really a thing. Just under 3,000 examples of the turbocharged, AWD weapon were built, making them sought-after rigs ...
With just under 3000 examples built during its single-year production run, the GMC Syclone was always slated to be a rare vehicle. Add the truck’s performance figures and an immortalized appearance on ...
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8 rarest and coolest pickup trucks you’ll never see in real life
You’d spot the SRT-10 by the Viper-sourced 8.3‑liter V10 under its hood, an unusual move for a pickup. It only lasted a few ...
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 ...
The legendary GMC Syclone was just about the fastest thing you could buy in 1991 with 280 horsepower from a 4.3-liter turbocharged V6 and all-wheel drive for traction from a dig. In head-to-head tests ...
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 ...
Based on the preceding GMC Syclone turbocharged pickup truck, the GMC Typhoon featured a similar ethos wrapped in an SUV body style. Only produced across two model years, the Typhoon embarrassed many ...
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