In February 1982, Buick announced a two-tone Regal named after NASCAR’s top series. It had a 125-horsepower V6, and only about 16 of the 215 built had a turbocharger. Five years later, the same name stood on an all-black coupe that could outrun a Corvette, and its final version, the GNX, ran 0 to 60 mph in 4.7 seconds. Few American cars changed character that completely in such a short time. A V6 Nobody Wanted…
The Dodge Charger made its debut on New Year’s Day 1966, in a commercial during the Rose Bowl broadcast. Twelve years later, the last…
By 1967, a well-equipped muscle car was no longer a cheap car. Plymouth’s answer for 1968 was a plain two-door with rubber floor mats,…
On August 11, 1965, Ford showed the public a vehicle that did not fit any of its existing categories. It was not a pickup,…
Most people picture the early Chevrolet Blazer the same way: short, boxy, top off, four-wheel drive, somewhere on a dirt trail. That is the…
Tesla will stop building the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of 2027. Elon Musk announced the plan on X late on Thursday,…
Pontiac expected to sell about 5,000. By the end of the 1964 model year, buyers had ordered 32,450 Tempests with the GTO package, a…
In 1982, Chevrolet took the formula of its big K5 Blazer, cut it down and put it on a compact pickup chassis. The result…
For more than two decades, the Camaro that Paul Walker’s character jumped onto a yacht at the end of 2 Fast 2 Furious sat…
In the early 1980s, the American V8 was in trouble. Emissions rules and fuel economy targets had squeezed the big engines hard. Detroit’s engineers…
