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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nigel first entered the world of automotive journalism in the mid-80s, working for what was then the “bible” of weekly automotive content - Motoring News. Those were the days of tip-tap typewriters, ...

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 ...

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 ...