General Motors has been in business for more than 115 years, and during that time, this fabled manufacturer has moved the automotive industry forward in countless ways. Sometimes this progress has ...

However, it was clear this flawed engine design was not going to do the heavy lifting for GM going forward. The oil crisis had sparked critical GM vehicle downsizing programs, such as the compact ...

The result of this cut-and-paste engineering was a 2.5-liter pushrod straight-four engine that ran rough and sounded unpleasant but held together pretty well. Production of the Iron Duke ran from 1977 ...

Built in large- in fact, vast- quantities from 1977 through 1993, the 151-cubic-inch Iron Duke four-cylinder served The General well, though generally without much recognition. Known variously as the ...

Pontiac's old Super Duty performance program used to be one of the best in the business. High-performance parts for Pontiac racers and street heroes were available across the counter, but things are a ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. No, not the Duke of Wellington and not a pro wrestler. When GM unveiled ...

The only way to get even close to the fuel economy AMC boasts of in this ad was to get the five-speed manual transmission (hooray!) coupled with the GM Iron Duke four-cylinder engine (groan!). The ...

Pontiac has made some really cool cars over the years, such as the GTO, Bonneville, and Firebird. But while there are many underappreciated Pontiac muscle cars, when people talk about what makes ...

In hindsight, the Chevrolet Celebrity didn't make much of a mark on our automotive culture (despite more than two million sold during the car's decade-long production run). GM pushed this car hard ...

When Chevrolet is good, it’s very, very good. Like Bel Air levels of greatness. But when Chevrolet is bad – whew. It’s awful. Cars like the Chevette, or the Vega. And pretty much anything powered by ...