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Pontiac Fiero, the car that was GM's most famous failure
The Pontiac Fiero was the first mass produced mid-engine car in America. In theory, it should have been a great success story ...
General Motors appeared to be groundbreaking and transformative when it unveiled its Chevrolet C8 Corvette Stingray. After all, the company was breaking with tradition and moving away from the ...
Originally published in the March 1999 issue of Hot Rod magazine. Two flavors of Pontiac Fiero—both hot and spicy and both with Cadillac Northstar engines—prove the difference is in degrees. To ...
Forty years ago, a sprightly looking two-seater burst onto the U.S. market, grabbing the imagination of everyone who wanted a Ferrari but had to work a normal day job. The Pontiac Fiero was introduced ...
The Pontiac brand met its demise after parent company General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009, amidst an economic recession. GM had to kill off multiple slow-selling subsidiaries — ...
In the final production year, the Pontiac Fiero GT fulfilled its performance potential. This Medium Red unit will cross the ...
From the October 1987 issue of HOT ROD: A Super Duty conversion kit that could give your Fiero the kind of performance its styling implied. Pontiac's Super Duty 4-cylinder engine has established a ...
Conceived in the late 1970s as a two-seat economy commuter car, the Pontiac Fiero evolved into a sports car over its short life span. Just as it became the car it should have been, GM killed it.
Pontiac's mid-Eighties, mid-engine sportster, the Fiero was promising on paper but less so in practice. For 1986, it got revised rear styling but not the mechanical revisions it needed. The Fiero had ...
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