S poiler alert: somewhere around 80 percent of muscle cars from the 1980s were built on just three vehicle platforms. They ...

We wanted to find out why, so we grabbed a few carburetors and a pretty common small-block Chevy engine ... which is found in hundreds of thousandsof '80s and '90s GM pickups and SUVs.

Remember when hot hatches burst onto the scene in the 70s and 80s? We couldn’t get enough ... although if you pay more for the Sport trim, you do also get shift paddles on the steering wheel ...