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2004 Pontiac GTO - Making The Goat Great

It was inevitable-simply a matter of time until modified versions of Pontiac's new GTO began to surface as turnkey packages. It' more

Flogging America's Sports Car--Including The Z06

Maybe you’ve noticed that we don’t write a lot about new cars in Car Craft. And since the auto manufacturers have noticed that too, they don’t invite us out to play with their new toys very often. But when the invitation came from Chevy to atte more

The Musclecar Lives

Television advertising for the '98 Pontiac Firebird is already out of the bag, so to speak, and man, it's a hoot. The car in the ad is a loaded-to-the-gills looker in the form of a WS6-packaged Trans Am. In the sometimes confusing line of Firebirds, the base m more

Trickle-Down Theory

It's hard to believe, but the fourth-generation Camaro is entering its sixth year of production. For some car makers, that means the design is really old news, but for people who really appreciate this type of car, it means we're just getting comfortable with more

GP vs GTP

Although there isn't a whole lot of hype surrounding it, this year the Grand Prix is quietly celebrating 35 years as Pontiac's perennial personal luxury coupe. Introduced in 1962 as a dressed-up Catalina, the Grand Prix quickly gained popularity, selling more more

LT4 Encore

Since 1993, the Camaro has been the best bang-for-the-buck American-made performance car on the market. Even the base V-6 versions are decent performers in their own right. But the Z28 is the big favorite with most enthusiasts. Combined with the exceptional LT more

Viper vs Hemi Challenger

We are in a golden age for performance cars. This golden age of modern musclecars could be referred to as the "second coming of the era." The first, of course, was the musclecar era that spanned from about 1962 to what was the end of the era with the Chrysler more