The GMC Syclone is one of those obscure vehicles with an utterly gigantic following. The performance truck took the world by storm in 1991 with a limited-run of production of just under 3,000 built.
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 ...
Shortly after Chevrolet took the veils off the 454 SS for the 1990 model year, GMC revealed the much rarer Syclone. Fewer than 3,000 were produced, all of them featuring the almighty 4.3-liter LB4 ...
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Right now, if GMC aficionados reminisce about the short but good old days of the high-performance Syclone, there’s one modern solution. Specialty Vehicle Engineering (SVE) takes the latest GMC Canyon ...
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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 ...
As product planners are wringing their hands and sweating bullets over new bells and whistles that they hope will attract reluctant buyers, one GM division is making a bold move to take command of the ...
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 ...
The GMC Syclone of the 1990s was a true world-beater, with speed in the realm of Corvettes and Ferraris of its time. Thirty years later, we have high-performance off-road trucks like the Ford F-150 ...