The GMC Syclone turbo truck burned bright and brief, arriving in the early 1990s as a factory hot rod that could outrun contemporary sports cars and then disappearing almost as quickly as it came.

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 ...

In the '90s, people didn't get to have their automotive cake and eat it too. That's to say, a car generally had one job, rather than having the capability to do multiple different tasks, such as trips ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...