i got a typhoon sitting just down the road from me. body is sound. gfx are in great shape along with interior. Gonna offer em 2500 and see where it goes from there. Paint is shot. 100k miles. wish me luck
I was in high school when the Syclone came out. A kid in my school got one his junior year that his rich parents bought him. He didn’t even have it for two months before he totaled it. Insurance replaced it. He totaled that one too just a few months after getting it. Again it was replaced and he got a third Syclone all in the same year of school. His third Syclone lasted him into his senior year but he wrecked it and then got a Chevy Silverado instead. You think his parents would have learned their lesson after he wrecked the first one and not let him get another one.
In an era that had a lack of muscle cars, American manufacturers put high output motors into light trucks. And this one was probably the best of them. The 4-speed automatic didn't handicap performance. 5.4 seconds in 1991 was very fast. Replace the rear drums with discs and this thing was one of the best American vehicles of the early 90s. $48,000 in today's dollars.
mustangs were 0-60 in 6.5 seconds back then and mustang was faster than the Camaro! and this truck would wipe the floor with the Mustang! Heck the vette ran 0-60 in 5.8.. this truck would eat that too
During the time this vehicle was produced I was a Police Officer in Pontiac Michigan. This vehicle and the Typhoon were produced at the GMC plant on South Blvd. in the city. They were shipped a few miles away to a special vehicle facility I believe on Doris Rd. in Auburn Hills where they were modified. It was not unusual to see these vehicles being driven past the plant by the engineers working on the project smoke coming from all four wheels.
ford's svt lightning was inspired by the gmc cyclone, but even with that said the gmc cyclone paid homage to the high performance truck that started it all, the dodge Lil red express.
@@truckguyjoe yep it's getting stupid! I got lucky enough to drive one when I was 16 and working at a Cadillac-Chevy-GMC-Olds/Toyota dealership. Luckily I knew what it was and the service manager didn't as I would drive them around to the back for oil changes and what not. Soon as I hit the corner I floored it and almost took out a row of employee cars parked in the back!😂 It's one of the reasons I bought a new F150 with the 3.5 EcoBoost, those twin turbos are fun!!!
I had a Syclone from new, #1339. The only complaints I had were the payload capacity and repairs required. Anything out of the ordinary required the approval from the regional company rep. so they took twice as long as needed. Then you could only take it to a dealer certified to work on it. The dealer I lived closest to sucked, they destroyed the engine when they fixed an intake manifold oil leak after getting coolant in the oil. The transfer case and transmission went out. It was very fast and the ratings were miss quoted in this review. The window sticker stated 280HP and 360 TQ. The rated MPG was also lower then actual, I got about 13-15 around town and as high as 24 on the highway, but that was a small price to pay for the fastest vehicle around. Guys on motorcycles, driving Mustangs, Cameros and anything else fast always wanted to race. I could be through the 30ft mark before they could even move. In the 1/8th mile, nothing street legal was ever able to keep up, but the 1/4 was another story. The 0-60 and 1/4 miles times were much better then stated also. I could get 0-60 in as little as 4.3 on a cool day and the 1/4 in as little as 13.1@ 108MPH with the intercooler coolant pump electrical switch bypassed to make it stay on. Even today those are respectable numbers form the performance street cars. They used a standard 4.3L S-15 engine, sent the final S-15 4x4 to PASS and they replaced it with an engine they built from the 4.3L added the turbo and intercooler, replaced the transfer case to the one used in the AWD Jimmy van and the transmission from the Corvette with a modified shift point to 4500 RPM(redline) but if you kept your foot down, it would shift at 4700 RPM. They also replaced the interior, adjusted the suspension replaced the wheels and put the plastic body panels on.
Kevron Harris the video was uploaded in 2018...so everyone is. Unless you travel through time. if your question was about retro videos in general then yea, I still enjoy them and see them.
Should have never sold mine! Boy do I miss burning rubber with that baby! Lots of tickets at age 18. Parents bought one for me for graduation and then racked up the points.
Your parents bought you what is basically a $54,000 truck in today's dollars, then you went and racked up speeding tickets? Wow, talk about a spoiled rich kid.
This reminds me of when I worked for an RV rental place (probably just a couple years after this video first came out). They would install a camper onto the bed of an S-15 as a cheap RV rental option. One day a few of us went to a dealership to pick up some S-15s to bring them back to the shop to get the campers installed. They had the 4.3 litre engine and suspension that was up-rated so much the truck no longer sat level (I guess it needed it for hauling a camper around on the bed). They weren't Syclones, but they were still pretty fast - had fun driving them back to the shop from the dealership.
"4-Wheel drive a must to get traction from all that 280 HP"! lol back when 14 sec 1/4 mile was quick. Today we 500HP cars like nothing. Very cool truck Love the 90's oh remember the Volkswagen Scirocco !
Correction 0-60 it out ran every vehicle in the world in 91. Fastest 0-60 oh any vehicle in the world at the time. Imagine if they did a turbo 350 va the 4.3 in that beast.
The syclone is one of GMC’s best trucks that they need to bring back with either the Canyon or the Sierra. Can you imagine a Sierra based Syclone or something like the Syclone?
I swear i think cars are looking worse and worse as i grow, How and why have they stopped designing cars that looked and performed this great. I'm only 24yrs old and i think i was born in the wrong era. Old car looked so much better.
not all that great LOOKING but OMG wiould I love to be driv8ing trhat baby in my town, ......Id show off, be at a light & have pride. Dignity & all that stuff.
The price was too high at $25.5K when you consider back in 1987 GM sold the Buick Grand National GNX for $29.5K. This is still a great vehicle and you have to appreciate GM for offering it for sale to the public. In 1991 you could buy the Mitsubishi made Dodge Stealth RT TT with 300HP AWD, a 6 speed, leather, fully loaded with auto HVAC, etc...for about the same price as the Syclone, so this truck was a hard sell.
According to Car and Driver in ideal weather conditions it could accelerate to 60 in 4.3 seconds and complete the quarter in 13.4 @ about 100mph, which is faster than an 04' ram srt10! What a beast!
Should know by now Motorweek was VERY CORRUPT AND CROOKED, they sandbagged reviewed ALOT of vehicles to boost whatever competitors that paid them. On the Syclone not sure who was gunning after it, but I can ensure with a decent driver and no sandbagging these can do stock mid to low 13's. Sure 12's with a few little tweeks to get more power from tune. The awd could handle like up to 500hp stock according to some and others say more. I would love to find a clean completely stock garaged one these days for sale
@dwg1235 alot of factors that play into a cars time. They said my car runs 14.3, but I've gone 13.2. Trap times are similar though. Everything from temps to altitude and humidity changes that time.
Darin I’ve been looking at picking up a Typhoon. The Syclone came out my sophomore year of high school and I had a buddy who’s brother worked for BP in Alaska where I grew up that bought a teal Typhoon with the silver ground effects. He drove that thing everywhere which included a lot of dirt roads in Alaska and after less than a year he’d ripped all the ground effects off from bottoming out on the dirt roads. It looked like a normal Jimmy after that except it had those wheels and stance. It still hauled ass without the ground effects though.
Realtime Reviews same here. Todays 'midsize' anything is just a tad smaller than a full size. Better off to just spend the extra few thousand to get a big one.
Realtime Reviews - I don’t know how they classified these, but it’s hard to call the small GM trucks mid-size. They are so small inside. Dodge Dakota, now that’s midsize, sit in both and it’s like night and day.
@@mikeyerke3920 No, not nice! It's a full size truck, that is way to chunky, slow and expensive! It does NOT capture the spirit of the original Syclone!
The base 4.3 liter engine has been a great engine for years.i had a 99 S10 two wheel drive and never did I think I needed any more power. So this truck probably would run with anything on the 1/4 mile
The one-year wonder. I went into a GMC showroom to look and they had already sold them all. I did get a brochure and still have it. Pretty sweet ride back in the day.
I had a big Syclone poster back then as I was 11 when it came out. All you had to do was call GMC's 1-800 number and ask for their promotional stuff and they would send it to you!
Love these retro reviews have seen most of the episodes since the early 90's and remember this one. Keep the blasts from the past coming. This was a serious sport truck back in the day. A CD player was high tech then, this one only came with a cassette player, lame. No airbag(s) either a lot has changed in 27 years.
Since my late father bought a new 82 S-10 I've always had a thing for the old square body S - series trucks. I knew in 91 that the 4.3 put out 160 hp! I remember seeing the first commercials for it back then and they were short and one of the highlights was 280 hp! I thought that was crazy for that little truck! I'd wish I could own one today.
Back when GM made interesting special editions on its trucks. Now for the past 20 years, the only special edition GM trucks we get are the blinged out GMC Denalis and Chevy High Country/LTZ trims with a slightly bigger displacement V8(the 400hp+ 6.2 V8 is great though, but should be optional on all trim levels). All you get for the extra $$$$ on GM trucks now days is more buttons, features, chrome trim and an engine with about 50 more hp. Ford has printed money with the Raptor, which has a unique look, unique off road chassis, of course more hp, GM has nothing to compete with it IMO.
@@patrickmichaellangan576 Funny you mention "I Wanna Go Back" because I was coming in to comment that, of any Eddie Money song, watching these Retro Reviews makes me think of that one.
I’ll bet this thing is a hoot! I used to drive a high mileage ‘01 S10 with a regular 4300 V6 and that thing hauled ass, very torquey. Basically a 350 V8 minus two cylinders.
The cyclone and the typhoon were powerful little V6 engine trucks, Chevrolet borrowed some of Buick's hardware from the Grand national but Chevrolets 4.3 V 6 wasn't Buick's more sophisticated 3.8 V6 engine which would have offeredeven better performance on and off the track.❤
Even the standard 4300 V6 was a crazy motherfucker of an engine for such a small truck. Especially compared to the base engine, which was basically a 2.2 liter four with the DNA of a lawnmower.
Wish you would just have said it's the baddest truck ever made, and so bad ass you couldn't even max it out. Will take a Syclone vs Raptor or Tundra any day. Let's get it on!
