Although muscle cars can be traced back to the 1950s, the consensus is that the Pontiac GTO popularized the high-performance midsize market. Introduced for the 1964 model year, the GTO was immediately ...

With the 455 Rocket V8, the 1970 Oldsmobile 442 had 365 horsepower (over 400 horses was closer to the truth) on tap, as well ...

For the 1970 model year, General Motors lifted its ban on engines in excess of four hundred cubic inches in mid-size cars. This paved the way for the 455 cubic-inch V8 to be stuffed in the Oldsmobile ...