The pony car landscape of the late 1980s was one of compromised ideals. By that time, the muscle era’s thundering large-journal engines were long gone, replaced by smaller, emissions-choked V8s ...

LIMA —The sales brochure for the 1989 Pontiac Firebird Formula reads, “Thunder and Lightning” and tells how drivers buying the Formula or the Coupe want a completely “distilled driving experience.” ...

The base 1989 Formula engine was a 5.0-liter Chevy small-block V8 rated at 170 horsepower, and that appears to be what's in this car. A hairier version of the 5.0 could be had as optional equipment, ...

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The Pontiac Firebird Formula is a trim level available on the Firebird from 1970 (initially called the Formula 400 at the second-generation Firebird's debut) through 1981 and 1987 through 2002, the ...

The decades have not been kind to this once-slick-looking Firebird, but you can still make out what made it so appealing in 1989. You got 25 more horsepower with the manual transmission and the ...

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Kyle has written professionally across the motorsport and motoring world since graduating from Plymouth University in 2018, and has acted as the MotoGP editor for Motorsport Week and as a Features ...

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