The long version

GMC built this by stuffing a turbocharged, intercooled V6 and a first-for-a-pickup all-wheel-drive system into a compact truck bed nobody expected to see at a stoplight showdown, and period road tests confirmed it could embarrass genuine exotics in a straight line, which is most of why it still gets talked about. Values stayed low for a long stretch because it was, on paper, still a small GMC pickup, and plenty got used exactly like one, hauling mulch on the way to a drag strip on the weekend. That utility-truck ordinariness is fading now that clean survivors pull collector prices a 1995 Syclone owner would not have believed.