Japanese automakers intensified the competition with technology-rich sports cars featuring advanced turbocharging systems. Given this challenging landscape dominated by foreign manufacturers, the ...

Tom Sherer was only 19 years old when he first laid eyes on this black-on-red 1981 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Turbo. It was parked in the Philadelphia apartment complex where his brother, Chris, lived ...

You don’t have to be a big third-generation Firebird fan in order to appreciate the accomplishments of the 20th Anniversary Turbo Trans Am model, unveiled in 1989. For a brief time, this became ...

In the late '80s, American performance was clawing its way back from the dark ages. Turbocharging was suddenly cool again, and General Motors had a few tricks up its sleeve. One of them became a cult ...

The spirit of quarter-mile drag racing lies deeply connected with the values of freedom and innovation. Just look at all the gloriously tuned and modified rides that exist across the nation's ...

The original 1970 Datsun 240Z proved Japan was capable of building more than economy cars, kicked off a 52-year sports car story that gave us the legendary 1990s Z31 300ZX, and continues this year ...

The Buick Grand National and the limited-edition GNX were some of the coolest cars of the 1980s, marrying turbocharged V-6 technology with an old-school musclecar feel. But what if you took that burly ...

In 1980, General Motors introduced a new turbocharged V8 engine option for the Pontiac Trans Am that sought to give buyers the best of both worlds: the power of a big V8 along with the efficiency of a ...

Sometimes the best things in life are the most simple. Lazy Sundays, original Nintendo, rental cars, homebuilt single-turbo fourth-gen Trans Am's, cold pizza, cold beer, the list goes on and on.

An extensively modified 1981 Pontiac Turbo Trans Am with the type of performance to rival even the fastest modern-day supercars is heading to auction this weekend. This classic muscle car is known as ...

The 1980 Pontiac Trans Am Turbo was the answer to the horsepower question after CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards killed the venerable 6.6-liter V8. The 301 cubic-inch V8 used for the ...

The old saying has been repeated so many times that it goes beyond the realm of the mere cliche, "Horsepower costs money--how fast do you want to go?" To a large extent, it is completely true, ...