Pontiac even tied the Fiero into a Hall and Oates concert tour ... finish and optional 14-inch cast aluminum wheels with raised-white-letter Goodyear Eagle GT radials. The fuel-injected 2.5- ...

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.

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 ...