The Pontiac Trans Am 455 Super Duty arrived just as Detroit was being forced to turn down the volume on big cubic inches, which is exactly why it still looms so large in muscle car history. Built in ...

The 1972 model year represented an existential crisis for the Firebird line, and the Trans Am in particular. A protracted, 174-day United Auto Workers (UAW) strike at the Norwood, Ohio, assembly plant ...

Say what you want about the Trans Am, but nobody can deny it was an iconic model. Its performance appetite made the Trans Am a highly desirable model, with Pontiac eventually creating special models ...

The Pontiac Trans Am occupies a rare place in automotive history, remembered less as a machine and more as a shorthand for ...

Back in 1978, Herb Adams, the Pontiac legend who by then was an integral part of Pontiac's Advanced Design group, helped introduce the world to the WS6 Trans Am Special Performance package. For a mere ...

No, you didn’t read our title wrong. This is a 2013 model year Trans Am, and yes, that is a Pontiac logo affixed to the front of the car. But don’t bother dialing up your local General Motors ...

Trans-Am Worldwide, the Florida-based manufacturer behind the sixth-generation Chevy Camaro-based Pontiac Trans-Am recreation, will debut its modern-day take on the iconic 1970 Chevelle SS this month.

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

For more than three decades, the Pontiac Trans Am was one of the most popular sports cars on North American roads. While it has many detractors, it also retains a large and fervent fan base that keeps ...

The Pontiac story dates back to 1907, when Edward Murphy, a leading manufacturer of horseless carriages, established the Oakland Motor Car Co. in Oakland County’s Pontiac, Michigan. General Motors was ...

It was over, Johnny. The muscle car thing had run its fun, psychedelic course by the early 1970s. Rising insurance rates, falling compression ratios, and looming federal regulations effectively killed ...