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.
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.
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
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
@@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!!!
@@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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
He said 14.1 in the quarter me. Before any upgrades mine ran a 13.3 religiously. After upgrades (turbo, injectors, intercooler and transmission), I was running a 12 second flat. The only reason I did the transmission was because the original one blew apart.
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.
The only thing that might be even less practical than the Syclone is a Morgan Three Wheeler. And I want one of each, thank you. They make my Miata look sensible!
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.
Saw this review after watching a review for the 1990 Chevrolet SS454 pickup. If you were looking for a fast truck in the early 90s you might have regretted buying the Chevy in 1990. This GMC handily outperforms that Chevy by every possible metric. In some instances the improvement in performance is startling. Unfortunately, it all came at a price: 1990 SS454: $18,000 while the 1 year newer, smaller truck was....$25,000 YIKES.
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.
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!
It would be neat to stroke one like a 383 striker -2 cyl. Then shift at 4K lol and idle even more like a tractor. I saw both a syclone and a typhoon at my local strip going 12s. Obviously modded but the holeshot was impressive. Cyclone was loose out of the hole. You can see this one torque up and get sideways before the quarter mile run but the front was slipping some too on the one I watched. Sweet rides.
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.❤
When have you seen a Motor Week review that said at the end "Has No Competition." That really sums it up -- Syclone / Typhoon were in a league of their own. Just say a modern review on another channel where a stock Syclone dusted a brand new Raptor in a drag race. That's pretty amazing.
i like them, but a guy thought he was gonna surprise me in my Mustang back then. he didn't know i knew how to drive a 5 speed the way i did. him and his girl weren't grinning after second from a 15 roll.
"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 !
One of the coolest trucks ever made
Man now this is a sick truck! Small trucks, small sports trucks need to come back. Tesla might be our only hope
Jon Melssner Correction, the coolest truck ever made lol.
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.
Ryan Lange Sounds like a prime case of having "more dollars than sense", as my late grandma would say.
One day a Grand National rear ends a 454SS Truck and nine months later the Syclone is born.
🤣👍
😁👍
Great comment 👍
👍🏿
More like the 454 rear ends the grand national
30 years old and if reviewed today, it would still kick ass. Timeless.
Definitely a legendary vehicle! This beast held the title for fastest production pick-up for 20+ years!
and it wasnt even a v8
@@raz_nick4048 is true. GMC Syclone and Typoon is legendary vehicles.
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 Where is your evidence? What is your evidence?
@@dwg1235 he literally said 13.4 so you say mid to low 13's, are you agreeing with him or what?
@@dwg1235or maybe car and driver had one which was played around with from the factory? They’re the only ones that got 4.3 to 60 out of that thing.
@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.
Back in the day this thing was so fucking ridiculous in a good way
Still is. I own a 93 Typhoon. Would take these vehicles over most any modern vehicle!
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.
Was definitely a great truck of its time. Crazy gm had the balls to build fun wacky stuff back in the day. Now srt is doing that today.
But except dodge products are crap and dont last to long..
GM didn't build these... They were licensed by GM and sold through its dealers though.
Plot twist: SRT has been disbanded - 2021
The profile of this little gem is near perfect. Well designed and one of my favorite GM products ever.
The 4.3 V-6 is a 350 engine with the two front cylinders chopped off-good engine.
Yep. They even did a 4.3 l v8 that looks like the 5.7 lt1 back then
The Only Truck On The Planet That Had A Ferrari 328 GTS Seeing It's Tailgate During Takeoff.
dejohn913 And a 348...
MrCarGuy20 Thank You. I Forgot About That Last Model Line. And Yes Most Agreed.
Yes great truck, by the way, I have that article!
Yup.... I bought that magazine in 91.... road & track i think??
The 328 came out in 1985. What a bizarre comparison.
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.
Brendan A. MacWade True. I'm glad that the Syclone isn't a ricer.
I would do a very clean five speed manual swap! :)
People have tried it. It doesn't spool the same way.
The auto handicaps its performance around a track that's for sure, also rear discs are overrated. You're better off upgrading the fronts.
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
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!
How much was the sticker in your area?
I remember this Syclone and Typhoon growing up... So badass!
Amazing stuff, thanks for letting us know.
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
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.
Must be where the Grand National engineers went after '87.
Yes ...and where are they now (or since)???
@@bruschmidt9943 retired.
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.
SteelCity1981
Or the rare Dodge "the dude" pick up
GMC was inspired by the Mercury Cyclone.
@@cobracharmer6178 Mercury Cyclone turbo and awd, 1 of 1….. very rare. LMAO
I remember lusting after this thing when I was a teenager. Actually saw a Typhoon on the road a few months ago.
Wow! I'm from the UK and not a massive lover of trucks from that era, but man, they got that one so right!
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.
Now that's a review!
Too bad you can't even spell the vehicles name correctly.
If I had this truck, I'd also be blasting some Eddie Money on the radio.
Agreed!
Wow 5.4 to 60 not bad at all
116 feet 60 to zero is also really quite good... this is a pickup in 1991 we're talking about!
Same 0-60 as my 2007 G35.
JSenpai242 less than 5 seconds on a cold day he said
Ross i know but thats impressive considering the wrx sti from 2004 n up 0-60 is around the same time
CTJacob yeah and try 4.9 sec on a cool day! Not like your g37
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.
Hitting 0-60 in 5 seconds in 1991 was unheard of unless you were a Lamborghini. That truck was insane for it’s time
God! This and the Typhoon were real sleepers. Seriously quick machines
A sleeper would be if it looked like a base S10/S15 with standard rims, no extra trim or fender flares, just this engine & powertrain.
I love this Typoon, Syclone and Chevy 454 SS, my favorites
Mine is 100% bone stock and still a blast to drive.
How much you want for it
@@cowboysfive0551 Keeping it…looking for a clean Typhoon & Grand National to complete the dream garage
@@truckguyjoe better have the cash or credit, Barrett-Jackson is driving GN's and GNX's out the roof!
Josh Royster you’re not kidding!! 87 GNs easily $30K+ for a decent original car
@@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!!!
Eddie Money's Take Me Home Tonight on the radio. Memories.
Yep. May he Rest In Peace And May his music (especially that song and my personal FAV “I Wanna Go Back”) live on.
@@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.
@@patrickmichaellangan576 good music and good memories
I wish they still made mid sized sport trucks
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.
This is smaller then mid sized....
@@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!
I wish for big sport trucks to come back like the F150 lighting and the Silverado ss
Buick GN, GMC Typhon and this are totally badass cars
though i like everyone of those, i beat everyone of those in my 91 Mustang. took out a Supra and an RX7 as well.
Must be modified then?
@@90boiler only 4.10s still had full interior and air. you had to know how to drive'em
@@90boiler it did have an off road exhaust too
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.
cardo in this age, most new cars dont even come with cd players anymore so i guess not having a cd player in this truck is no problem at all
@@SubieandFriends Exactly, stereo systems in early 90's GM cars equipped with cd players was very rare back in the day, much the lesser in a truck.
Who's watching the retro reviews in 2018?
Kevron Harris lmao this video was just now put on CZcams as a "RetroReview" so EVERYONE is watching it in 2018
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.
akachuy I was talking about _all_ of the retro reviews that were posted
EVERYONE IS WATCHING THIS VIDEO IN 2018
until 2019
that would be me!
How can you not love the Syclone/Typhoon! So cool, and I've never seen a real one here in Europe :(
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.
Very true. Many engines are just less cylinders than their big brothers whether it's a four banger or whatever.
It’s actually pretty unreal. Modern supercar performance in an 80s truck
Those 4 dislikes are from 2018 Range Rover owners
Thanks grand national of pick up trucks!
Car company: Makes great car
Consumer: This is great!!! Make more!!!
Car Company: Greatly improves design then...
stops production the next year....
GM has been terribly mismanaged for decades.
This and the Typhoon, (and the turbo Buicks) are the coolest things GM has ever made. And oh yeah, throw in the turbo trans am too.
Yes , that was a fast truck back in the day, and I still have that magazine article with the Ferrari and truck drag race!
Was it Motor trend or Car and Driver?
Myke Johnson I believe Car and Driver
I just bought an 04 Dakota with a V8. I love this little truck.
My dad kept this truck so clean and at age 17 he passed it on to me, 25 and i still love this truck!!
4:59 That's a good thing GM put that reminder sign in that truck. I wish Ford put a similar sign in their 93 F150 Lightning
Thank you for providing more older GM footage. It is great to see these videos.
Thank god there's a voltmeter!
Damn for a 91’ truck this thing is crazy fast.
A legendary machine!
I remember one of the ads when they were new. Obviously they were quicker in cooler weather. It was "0 to 60 in 4.6 seconds, in the rain!" Sweet!
Saw one of these drive around where I use to live. Always drooled when I saw it. Closet I got was my 91 GMC s-15 with manual transmission.
My favorite truck, these were monsters!
Eddie Money take me home tonight. Just like Ronni Spector said...
The instrument cluster is straight out of the sunbird GT!
It's def one of the better looking clusters GM used during this time. I wonder if this cluster illuminated in the Pontiac red color at night?
Archie Bunker you could probably just swap the bulbs to make them red
Anthony Perez. Its not the bulbs, its the gel films on the cluster.
DrewLSsix I agree. Sunbirds are rare today.
No but it would've been awesome.
That thing sixty footed so good on the street on factory radial rubber.
Still have mine! I will never get rid of it! Syclone #1435
Awesome, I am jealous!
I own #0271. Love it!!
He said 14.1 in the quarter me. Before any upgrades mine ran a 13.3 religiously. After upgrades (turbo, injectors, intercooler and transmission), I was running a 12 second flat. The only reason I did the transmission was because the original one blew apart.
Forza Horizon 4 brought me here. Didn't know this thing existed until they put it in the game. Love it!
Damn, less than 5 seconds from 0 to 60 on a cooler day and high 13's to low 14's....in a stock production truck....in the early 90's. I want one now
Truck of the..... FOREVER 🔥🔥🔥🍻
Daily driven for 29 years and still hauls the mail. Will never let it go.
I wonder if that truck came with a 5 speed manual transmission, now THAT would be badass. It's still sick though
A pickup truck trapping 98 in 1991. RESPECT.
$25k was what a 3500 Dual Rear Wheel 2x4 w/ 454 sold for at the same time. Saw very few of these on the road back in the day.
It was a limited run. They only built 3000 and they sold out quick.
Crazy to think I was 10 years old when this video originally came out fuck we're getting old... Hahaha badass 🚚 lol
360 lbs.-ft torque.
When I first read about this truck in 1992. I was 21 yod. I could not believe GM had mad something so cool.
Very fast truck even for todays standards
This truck was 20 years ahead of its time in performance
Jay Leno bought his brand new just to bring home a Christmas tree from the lot across the street from the dealership. He still has it and loves it.
This little pickup is slick as hell.
When 280hp was UNTHINKABLE for a truck
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.
The only thing that might be even less practical than the Syclone is a Morgan Three Wheeler. And I want one of each, thank you. They make my Miata look sensible!
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.
Saw this review after watching a review for the 1990 Chevrolet SS454 pickup. If you were looking for a fast truck in the early 90s you might have regretted buying the Chevy in 1990. This GMC handily outperforms that Chevy by every possible metric. In some instances the improvement in performance is startling. Unfortunately, it all came at a price: 1990 SS454: $18,000 while the 1 year newer, smaller truck was....$25,000 YIKES.
Bought one new in '91. Still have it. My 12 year old has posted claim to it as his truck to drive when he gets his license. We will see.
Miss my Sy, but I don't miss working on it. Cap 'n rotor, plugs and wires...
30 years later and still just as cool!!!
One sinister Sonoma!!!!!!
landyachtfan79 They're better than the Canyon & Colorado!
Love these retro reviews.
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.
Marty McFly burning rubber? In an AWD? Lol
Anthony Perez You do know you can most definitely do burn outs with an AWD, right?
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.
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!
Syclone... Raptor....
and then Tundra? Huh? What an idiotic comparison to throw in a piece of trash like a Tundra.
@@rodmunch69 Just taking the top trucks of these days, a TRD isn't all that bad
HAS NO COMPETITION.
Thanks John!
Damn. I just watched the 1990 Ferrari 348 review they posted and this Syclone is 0.4 seconds quicker to 60, and has an identical quarter mile time…
The Ferrari is overall much better of course. The steering and suspension on these were pretty subpar even for the time.
@@halohunter5217 but he didn't say it would outrun a Ferrari on a road course😂
Josh Royster Who Care’s about a road course when you’re talking about the Syclone?
Every racers dream truck
The shot at 5:05 is the most 1991 thing I have ever seen.
Eddy Money's "Take Me Home Tonight" plays at 4:50; that would be neat if it were a subliminal marketing ploy.
It would be neat to stroke one like a 383 striker -2 cyl. Then shift at 4K lol and idle even more like a tractor. I saw both a syclone and a typhoon at my local strip going 12s. Obviously modded but the holeshot was impressive. Cyclone was loose out of the hole. You can see this one torque up and get sideways before the quarter mile run but the front was slipping some too on the one I watched. Sweet rides.
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.❤
That's one fast truck!!!! Thanks!!
Bad ass then and still today
Anybody remember the special edition GMC Marlboro Syclones? How about the Indy Syclones? Check them out!
Wha? Ok, I will. Thanks!
Imagine the Bandit driving a pickup. The GMC Syclone would've been that truck.
Actually saw one on the road for the first time a few weeks ago!
When have you seen a Motor Week review that said at the end "Has No Competition." That really sums it up -- Syclone / Typhoon were in a league of their own. Just say a modern review on another channel where a stock Syclone dusted a brand new Raptor in a drag race. That's pretty amazing.
I test drove a Syclone one time, it was quick off the line. I wouldn't mind owning one of those👍🇺🇸..
Damn thats a sweet truck
i like them, but a guy thought he was gonna surprise me in my Mustang back then. he didn't know i knew how to drive a 5 speed the way i did. him and his girl weren't grinning after second from a 15 roll.
Literally faster than a Ferrari during that time. Wild. Awesome trucks
One of the best performance truck. Love it!😍
Wouldn't mind having one of these!
I’d love to have one of those sneaky little monsters
It would be cool to see another compact or mid sized truck like this come out in the 2020s
"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 !
People don't realize how light these trucks were. I imagine you could lose control at times even being AWD
This was a bloody beast.