Syclone Touches Down at Rare Sport Truck Celebration Event

By Arison Knapp - March 8, 2016

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In August the famous Carlisle Truck Nationals pays tribute to sport trucks like the 1991 GMC Syclone for its quarter-century anniversary, so start looking.

Hemmings brings out a significant issue in the auto industry pertaining all auto manufacturers not just GMC. You see a full line auto manufacturers must fit each model into a category with pricing, power and quality to match, not to encroach into other model’s price territory. This 1991 GMC Syclone power-to-weight ratio performance was almost on par with base Chevrolet Corvette of the same year. One chief factor, I think, contributed to its demise.

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The well-adorned base model 4.3-liter six-cylinder engines used throughout the lineup was pretty average having 170 HP for the GMCs and Chevys for the time. Though fitted with a Mitsubishi turbocharger, Garrett intercooler and updated with multiport fuel-injection it throttled past 60 MPH through a grippy Borg-Warner AWD system right under five seconds. The rear-dominant AWD is massive help in planting turbocharged power. Fellow journalists I’ve spoken with from the era and Jay Leno say it is one of the most bitchin’ trucks of all time including its brethren the Typhoon.

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This truck directly competed with Corvette’s price to power territory but you still weren’t getting sports car performance. Syclones are known for straight line speed. Autotrader is stacked with a few primo models sure to turn heads, affordably at this event in August. Check online now and start the buying process for life is short and there is nothing like big power in a small truck. Just ask the V10 RAM-Viper owners what they think.