In September 1991, a legendary track showdown shook the automotive world when a blocky, factory-black American pickup truck ...

The 1991 GMC Syclone is often overshadowed by its contemporaries, yet it holds a unique place in automotive history due to ...

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Pick-up trucks aren’t just for work. All one needs to do is look at the GMC Syclone for ample proof. At the beginning of the 1990s, the Detroit-based automaker decided it was done leaving all muscle ...

Low-mileage Syclones like this one have sold for high prices in recent months. Back when compact, two-door pickup trucks were still around in the early 1990s, GMC had the wild idea to create a ...

With a turbocharged V-6 and all-wheel-drive, this compact pickup truck was one of the quickest vehicles around in its day. This example has just 10,000 miles on its odometer. Part of the GMC Syclone's ...

In 1991, GMC released a high-performance version of its Sonoma pickup truck, called the Syclone. At the time, it was easily the fastest production pickup on the road, and was apparently compared 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What could be more of a statement than driving a Chevy El Camino? It is basically a muscle car with a pickup truck bed, and easily one of the coolest classics around. But one alternative might make an ...