The Ram Air IV V8 marked the pinnacle of Pontiac's performance and engineering in the '60s. On paper, Pontiactried to downplay what they’d unleashed, which ended up being a factory race engine ...

In September 1966, GM finally joined the pony car market with the Chevrolet Camaro. Some five months later, Pontiac jumped on the bandwagon with the Firebird. With nearly 280,000 units sold, the first ...

When it comes to cultural impact, very few muscle cars punch as far above their weight as the Pontiac Firebird. When it arrived in 1969, it joined the burgeoning muscle car/pony car market that was ...

General Motors was caught flat-footed when Ford introduced the Mustang for the 1964 ½ model year. Sure, the General had built its share of muscle cars in the past — generally they were versions of ...

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The Trans Am wasn't yet a hit in 1970, but Pontiac put a lot of effort into getting it right. Only 3,196 units were sold, with the base Firebird remaining the king of the lineup, with over 18,800 cars ...

The Pontiac Firebird Formula is a trim level available on the Firebird from 1970 (initially called the Formula 400 at the second-generation Firebird's debut) through 1981 and 1987 through 2002, the ...

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