The Malaise Era is an infamous period in automotive history that was not kind to General Motors or its customers, for that matter. A few famous flops occurred in the late 1970s and 1980s ...

Thus, in 1984, the plastic-bodied Pontiac Fiero, which means "very proud" in Italian and "fierce" in Spanish, was released for $7,999, and by the end of the year, nearly 137,000 were on the road.

We like to think we can spot a rebodied Pontiac Fiero when we see one ... two more have gone up for sale since July – and one is black.

In the '60s there was the rear-engine, air-cooled Chevrolet Corvair, then the mid-engine Pontiac Fiero in the '80s and the completely bizarre Chevy SSR in the 2000s. What all of these had in ...

The Fiero was a short-lived attempt to reignite interest in what was once the legendary Pontiac name. It first hit the ...