GMC
This is the catalogue record of the GMC Caballero, one of 28 models GMC has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1977.
To read the GMC Caballero properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1970s were the decade the oil crises rewired the industry — emissions rules, safety bumpers and fuel economy suddenly mattered as much as horsepower, and Japanese manufacturers went global. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the BMW BMW 7 Series, the Toyota Toyota Supra, the Mazda Mazda RX-7 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the GMC Caballero reads like this: the record lists its engine as 229 cuin Chevrolet V6 / 231 cuin Buick V6 / 262 cuin Chevrolet V6 / 267 cuin Small-Block V8 / 305 cuin Small-Block V8 / 350 cuin Small-Block V8; drive goes through 3-speed Saginaw manual / 4-speed manual / 3-speed THM200 automatic / 3-speed THM350 automatic / 4-speed THM200-4R automatic; the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within GMC's own catalogue the GMC Caballero sits alongside the GMC Canyon, the GMC Sierra EV, the GX-2, the Mr. T's custom 1982 GMC minivan. The record names the GMC Sprint as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Assembly is recorded at Arlington, Texas, United States, (Arlington Assembly: 1978–1984) / Doraville, Georgia, United States, (Doraville Assembly: 1978–1981) / Fremont, California, United States, (Fremont.
This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.
Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.
The catalogue records what the GMC Caballero was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.
Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.
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Contemporaries from other marques, introduced within three years of this car.