How useful is a pickup truck that can only carry 500 lbs in its bed and tow 2000 lbs? Not very, unless your criteria for a pickup truck isn't hauling stuff, but winning drag races. In which case, GMC ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in 1991, before crossovers ruled the road and the Toyota Camry made 300 hp, GMC did something truly crazy. It put a turbocharged six-cylinder in a two-door Sonoma, added a rear-biased ...

From the September 1991 issue of Car and Driver. We'll try to keep this discreet—your mother might be reading—but, just between us guys, we all know that half the fun of a fast car is standing on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Automakers launch more limited-edition vehicles than ever nowadays. And while it's cool that we get to buy so many cars that will become collectors' items in just a few years, we also have to deal ...

The 1991 GMC Syclone did not just nudge pickup performance forward, it detonated the curve. In an era when trucks were still expected to tow, haul, and maybe rumble a little at stoplights, this ...

A New Jersey tuner has dropped 750 horsepower into a mid-size pickup truck. Yes, we're talking about Specialty Vehicle Engineering of Toms River, which has returned with a more powerful version its ...

The vehicle manufacturer that brought you the 1,000-horsepower Yenko/SC Stage II Camaro has now revived one of the craziest sport-truck badges and given it a dose of modernity. Specialty Vehicle ...

The GMC Syclone of the early Nineties is an absolute legend in the automotive world. A modified, high-performance version of the Sonoma pickup truck with a turbocharged 4.3-liter V-6 producing 280 ...