In 1983, a year in which Chevrolet did not sell a Corvette, the Trans Am was the top performance car offered by GM. No matter how you judge it, in the early 1980s the American car industry was in ...

The Trans Am became the king of the Firebird castle in 1979 when it turned 10, with over 117K units shipped in just one year. Its yearly performance slightly declined in the next years, dropping to 31 ...

Turbocharging got to be all the rage during the mid-1980s, when fuel injection became cheap and reliable enough to become mainstream hardware. In the early 1980s, however, carburetors were still used ...