The Pontiac was a rare muscle car that slipped through history despite serious performance.

The 1964 Pontiac GTO is often heralded as the original muscle car, a title that has sparked debates among automotive enthusiasts for decades. Its blend of performance, style, and affordability set the ...

Pontiac produced close to 97,000 GTOs for the model year 1966, and needless to say, the hardtop was the most common choice. It accounted for over 73,700 GTOs built this year, followed at a huge ...

GTO What did it really mean, anyway? Gran Turismo Omologato. That was the Italian phrase the initials stood for. But most people, even at Pontiac, never mastered the entire phrase. our cars. Those ...

Widely hailed as the first real muscle car, the Pontiac GTO unleashed a horsepower war that continued until the development of the EPA and strict emissions compliance, causing the demise of horsepower ...

Say what you want about the GTO, but the muscle car obsession, as great as it was, no longer made sense in the early '70s. Looking back, we already know that the first years of the new decade were the ...

Though cars had existed for decades prior, it wasn't until the 1960s and '70s that the idea of them being powerful, fast, and tough all in one package became popular. In and around this era, the likes ...

Back in 1965, Pontiac’s advertising executive Jim Wangers teamed up with Royal Pontiac, George Hurst and Petersen Publishing to boost the sales of performance parts and the GTO. It resulted in a ...

Mihai has even branched beyond the usual confines of an automotive writer from time to time, however, his heart is still close to anything car-related. He's most at home retelling the story of some ...

Three simple letters borrowed from a well-known Italian automaker kicked off the muscle car revolution that sent hearts racing for a decade starting in the year 1964. The Pontiac GTO may be best known ...

Here’s the brutal truth: one of the mean machines that made Marvel’s The Punisher pop off the screen is up for grabs. RM Sotheby’s just dropped the listing for a surviving 1968 Pontiac GTO stunt ride ...

Many brands have passed through the General Motors turnstiles. Some we’ve long forgotten about, and some we still miss. Where would you place the defunct Pontiac in that regard, particularly the GTO?