Last month, Department X focused on a very unique V-6-powered Trans Am built and tested by Pontiac Special Vehicle Engineering. It was proposed as a possible alternative for a high-performance engine ...

The Pontiac Firebird Formula 400 sits in a sweet spot between bare‑bones pony car and full Trans Am theater, and that balance is exactly what keeps collectors chasing it today. I want to trace when ...

At last we've come full circle. GM's original gear-banging, high-rewing, serious-performance four-seater is back! We lived through the smog-control-choked '70s and the computer-controlled cars of the ...

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 ...

Following a decade of finding its feet post World War II, the American automotive industry went mental during the 1960s. The concept of the muscle car had been around for a little while, as ...

About ten seconds after we announced the GMHTP/Kenny Brown Driving School at Virginia International Raceway, we realized that our resident road racer-project car Thunderchicken-was far from ready to ...

The pony car landscape of the late 1980s was one of compromised ideals. By that time, the muscle era’s thundering large-journal engines were long gone, replaced by smaller, emissions-choked V8s ...

The Trans Am was already the star of the Firebird show in 1978, so the other models in the series didn't even get close to matching its sales performance. The Trans Am sales exceeded 93,000 units, ...

Kyle has written professionally across the motorsport and motoring world since graduating from Plymouth University in 2018, and has acted as the MotoGP editor for Motorsport Week and as a Features ...