{"id":688,"date":"1991-01-01T13:09:32","date_gmt":"1991-01-01T18:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/?p=688"},"modified":"2024-06-30T17:33:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T22:33:12","slug":"buyers-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/1991\/01\/01\/buyers-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Buyers Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Car &amp; Driver<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/sportmachines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CD-Buyers-Guide-91-196a-feature-1024x415.jpg\" alt=\"GMC Sonoma\" class=\"wp-image-2605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CD-Buyers-Guide-91-196a-feature-1024x415.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CD-Buyers-Guide-91-196a-feature-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CD-Buyers-Guide-91-196a-feature-768x311.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CD-Buyers-Guide-91-196a-feature.jpg 1308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>GMC SONOMA The Japanese had better hang on to their funny little cowboy hats, because General Motors wades the mini-pickup waters like a samurai in search of a breathless maiden. The GMC Sonoma is charged with righteous indignation at the inroads made by, as Detroit would have us believe, those little pissant Oriental pick-&#8217;em-ups. The General wasn&#8217;t likely to stand for such shenanigans for long, and when he came stomping in, he came outfitted with some yen- good and very shiny trucklets under his arm. Handsome without the gaudiness that&#8217;s characterized numerous big pickups, the smaller Sonomas still manage to carry some pretty impressive loads while offering far superior driving characteristics, a choice of two- or four-wheel-drive versions for conditions from swell to hell, and even the option of a roomier extended-cab model. Or, if you want something that can outrun a ZR-1 Corvette to 60 mph\u2014on dry and wet pavement\u2014the turbocharged Syclone model could be your truck. We tried it, and it really is that fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/sportmachines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1991\/01\/CD-Buyers-Guide-91.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of C&amp;D Buyers Guide 91.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-01801e6d-75f0-4a09-a374-2c7bb2791b94\" href=\"https:\/\/sportmachines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1991\/01\/CD-Buyers-Guide-91.pdf\">C&#038;D Buyers Guide 91<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sportmachines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1991\/01\/CD-Buyers-Guide-91.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-01801e6d-75f0-4a09-a374-2c7bb2791b94\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Car &#038; Driver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-test","category-syclone","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportmachines.com\/wp-index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}