1984-88 Pontiac Fiero: Top 10 Facts You Didn't Know About This Mid-Engine "Commuter Car"!

My dad worked at the Fiero plant. When I ordered my 87 GT he took me to the plant and I followed my car down the line as it was being built. Not many people can say that. Miss you Dad!!!

Typical GM; work out all the bugs then cancel the model.

As a Fiero owner, I'm so glad about this model's resurgence in popularity over the last few years. The younger generation is extremely interested in 80s cars!!!

"The Saturday Night Joke" A man owned a small farm. The Labor Department determined he was not paying proper wages to his staff and sent an investigator out to interview him. "I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them!", demanded the investigator. "Well," replied the farmer, "there's my farm hand who's been with me for three years. I pay him $200 a week plus free room and board. "The cook has been here for 18 months, and I pay her $150 per week plus free room and board." "Then there's the halfwit. He works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about $10 a week. He pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of whiskey every Saturday night. He also sleeps with my wife occasionally." "That's the guy I want to talk to...the halfwit!" said the agent. "That would be me," replied the farmer

I bought my 88 GT in November of 87. I still have it and I still love it. 😊

My sisters had a base ‘84 Fiero as her sweet sixteen car. It was very mildly used with just a few thousand miles on it, and it was purchased while new ‘84s were still on the dealer lots. I drove it a lot when she was in college and the care was home when I hit sixteen. It was fun, but within safe parameters. I can neither confirm or deny that it could seat four in a short distance pinch. In was awful in the rain, but better than you’d think in the snow. Loved the speakers in the headrest. We all thought that was coolest thing. I know the car gets a lot of hate, but I have nothing but fond memories of it. Poor things was stolen by thugs and destroyed. It was found with the transmission wrecked when presumably the morons threw it into park while traveling at a pretty high speed. What a shame.

My first new car was a 1984 Pontiac Indy Fiero. Had a four speed manual transaxle. It left me stranded several times, usually when a fusible link fried. It cost my 26 year old self $16,500 out the door, which is close to $50,000 in 2024 dollars. I still have the "Official Pace Car" decals that I never applied to the doors, and my California "84 INDY" and Nevada "INDY" license plates. Knowing that GM internally referred to the Fiero as the "P car" platform, I had considered getting the license plate "P ENVY." I remember the print ads that said, for the first time in history, all 34 cars at the Indy 500 were mid-engined (the 33 race cars plus the Fiero pace car). Later that year, Rick Mears' 1984 Indy 500 winning car was parked on a street in Morristown NJ where I worked, and there was an open space in front of the race car, where I parked my Indy Fiero. So my Indy Fiero actually "led" Rick Mears' car. And it was 1984, when nobody carried cell phones or cameras, so of course I don't have a photo of this chance encounter. Forty years ago. Damn I'm old.

My dad bought 1987 fiero gt new and has kept it ever since.. now being passed down to me with 15000 kms on it, love this car so much

These cars handled very well for being built from the parts bin.

The nicest Fiero I ever drove belonged to a good friend. He put me behind the wheel but didn't tell me that it carried a 4.4 liter supercharged Northstar. It is a rocketship. He still has it and enjoys it on nice weekends.

As the owner of a 1987 Fiero GT since 2010 I was thrilled to see a "Fiero" video pop up!!! They are great cars! Thank you Adam!!!

Wow, you sure are a fantastic interviewer. Prepared, knowledgable, adaptive to the conversation and let the guys talk. Very well done, Adam!

Working on the assembly line at the Fiero plant was the last job my father had before retiring from GM. When they closed the plant, he was given three options, the first of which was a job in a city we'd never heard of before; Tonawanda, NY. Needless, to say, my father declined that position and took an early retirement (they also offered a buyout that he wasn't the least bit interested in). While he worked at the Fiero plant, he would occasionally bring home a car for a day and would take me (then, a teenager) for a drive. I loved it; admittedly, he did not. He was always disappointed at how under-powered the cars were. To this day, I still have plans of getting my hands on an '88 GT or Formula. I truly appreciate your deep dive into the history of this car and thought I'd share a little bit of my own. They were cool and unique cars and should be remembered. In my opinion, they never should have been discontinued. The prototypes of the next generation models were very cool. Thanks again for the great content.

Someone I worked with had either an 84 or 85 and it required two windshields in one year (the extreme rake made the windshield crack vertically). Yet again, this was a demonstration of why I would never have bought a GM car in the eighties. All of the joy this guy had vaporized in continued windshield replacements.

The colors of the "test interiors" scream 70's loud and proud.

A tale of two friends. First friend bought an 86 Fiero GT new. Second friend worked for Ford at the time and would tease him by saying, "You're driving a Chevette in reverse". All in good fun. Excellent content as always - thank you.

GM had this car just about perfect in 88 and then pulled the plug.

An important omission is Fiero’s space frame and “Mill and Drill” manufacturing process. The space frame resulted in a very strong chassis structure, and “Mill and Drill” eliminated stacking of manufacturing tolerances for better fit of the exterior body panels. This was a very innovative process that I don’t think was continued beyond Fiero, likely due to cost and/or overly conservative leadership. A shame.

Hey Adam, the burgundy '88 GT with gold wheels you featured a few times sold YESTERDAY on BaT for nearly $30k! That's twice the original sticker price. These are finally getting the respect they deserve after years of being a punchline. ☺

I had two Fieros, an 84 Fiero SE and 86 GT. Both were exceptionally fun and reliable cars.