GMC spent most of its life as the more upscale side of Chevrolet, but the Syclone and Typhoon changed that story completely.

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 ...

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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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chrysler kicked off the performance truck genre in the late 1970s with the Dodge Li'l Red Express. Over at General Motors, the GMC Syclone and Chevrolet 454 SS are classics in their own rights. Of ...