John DeLorean, who died Saturday at age 80, was the car design prodigy from General Motors who developed the Pontiac GTO and revived the fortunes of Chevrolet before setting off to found his own firm ...

Inside Room 501 at the Sheraton Plaza La Reina Hotel near LAX, the trap was waiting for John DeLorean. It was October 1982, and the maverick automaker had been hemorrhaging money. Ten years earlier, ...

The most famous Pontiac John DeLorean might have been associated with was hardly a groundbreaking engineering feat. Putting a ...

There were fast rides before the GTO, but Pontiac made performance affordable, bringing muscle cars to the masses.

The Pontiac GTO was born at GM’s Milford Proving Grounds when John DeLorean and a group of engineers gathered to test a prototype 1964 Pontiac Tempest that had been stuffed with a 389 cubic-inch V8.

Hot rodders owe a debt of gratitude to Pontiac, GM’s step-up brand from entry-level Chevrolet, for creating the muscle car segment pretty much from whole cloth in 1964. For his role in creating the ...

Many muscle-car aficionados agree the beginning of the muscle-car movement can be traced back to the 1964 Pontiac GTO. For clarity’s sake, a muscle car is typically defined as a mid-size American ...

For a brief but thorough history of how the GTO high powered Judge came into existence check out this piece by Dan Jedlicka. For instance, I didn’t know the Judge got its name because Pontiac head ...

CHICAGO — John Zachary DeLorean, an auto innovator who could have been king but had to settle for jester, died Saturday in a New Jersey hospital at the age of 80 following a stroke. DeLorean gained ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here are seven things you probably didn't know about John DeLorean, from Netflix's Myth & Mogul: John DeLorean. If you're a Back ...