A New Twist

Out of all the aviation blogs I have written over the past few months I thought it would be nice to take a break and devote one of my posts to the automobile side of this blog page. It was very difficult to decide what exactly to write about when it comes to cars because I am not as knowledgeable as the people who post topics on them weekly. I concluded it would be nice to write about something less new and popular in this era and shift things back into the mid 1980’s. I like almost anything when it comes to the 80’s including music, movies, cars, and trends. So the car I am most familiar with and enjoy during that time was the Pontiac Fierro.

As I do with most issues, when it comes to cars I always support and drive American made automobiles. Chrysler, GM, and Ford will probably be the only cars I will ever buy, mainly because they have the best quality coming from the USA, but the vehicles that I would like to own from other countries I most likely will never be able to afford. Anyways, the car from the 80’s that has caught my eye recently is the Pontiac Fierro.

The Fierro was made from 1984 to 1988 and was moderately popular to own during that time if consumers were looking for a sports car. The Fierro I was familiar with featured a 2.6 liter V6 engine and 5-speed manual transmission. Similar to most cars in the 1980s, it was a small design carrying only two passengers. The engine was located at the rear end of the vehicle with the trunk being in the front and surprisingly the car had plenty of room inside. Over time, improvements were made to suspension, brakes, steering, and V6 engines took the Fierro to a level far beyond the 1984 model. Pontiac also designed t-tops for their 1988 model and helped dissipate some of the criticism it came under from the earlier designs. Pontiac never mass produced the Fierro after 1988 but came out with a prototype in 1990 that was never released to the public. The Fierro will always be one of my personal favorites and is a great car to drive to get the full experience of a 1980’s American automobile.