The muscle-car era was a wild time for Detroit car makers. There was a lot of variation in performance levels, as not all muscle cars were created equal. Some were very well thought out, and others ...

1976 was a big year for America: Apple launched its first computer, Rocky made its silver screen debut, Charlie’s Angels premiered on television, and Jimmy Carter became President of the nation on its ...

Pontiac was never good at letting go. Even as emissions strangled Detroit’s horsepower culture, the division that built the GTO refused to surrender quietly. And in 1975—against logic, policy, and ...

The Pontiac Trans Am 455 Super Duty arrived just as Detroit was being forced to turn down the volume on big cubic inches, which is exactly why it still looms so large in muscle car history. Built in ...

It was over, Johnny. The muscle car thing had run its fun, psychedelic course by the early 1970s. Rising insurance rates, falling compression ratios, and looming federal regulations effectively killed ...

We all know the story. The muscle car changed the automotive landscape in the USA for eternity in the '60s. The genre officially started with the Pontiac GTO of 1964 and snowballed when every ...