The GMC Sprint is a Coupé utility from Gmc, built from 1970 to 1972, as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry. Under the bonnet: 250 cuin Chevrolet Turbo-Thrift engine#250.
The story
The GMC Sprint is a coupé utility / pickup truck produced by GMC from 1971 to 1977. The rear-wheel-drive car-based pickups were sold by GMC Truck dealers primarily in the United States and Canada as the GMC version of the Chevrolet El Camino.
Trim designations, emblems, and wheel trim differentiate the GMC from the Chevrolet. The vehicles were built on the General Motors A platform for the duration of the Sprint's production and also for the first few years of the succeeding GMC Caballero. The Sprint was replaced by the more compact Caballero for model year 1978; this remained the sister model to the El Camino.
What is underneath
Power comes from 250 cuin Chevrolet Turbo-Thrift engine#250; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It shifts through a 3-speed automatic / 3-speed manual / 4-speed manual. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 116 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the GMC Caballero; assembly was at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the American Motors Corporation AMC Gremlin, the Suzuki Jimny, the Chevrolet Impala — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Gmc catalogue sit the GMC Canyon and the GMC Sierra EV.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the GMC Sprint has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.