[Jay H]

My brother had a 1988 Fiero. Unfortunately, he had the I4 (Iron Duke), auto trans model (not by his choice...). Looked great and got great gas mileage (for the time), but didn't perform all that well in a straight line.

His car had about 33,000 miles on it when he finally sold it (dry weather car only). It handled well for what it was, however it sure seemed to have a very unsophisticated suspension.

We did go to a few national Fiero club events (this was before either one of us had our 911's). These people are nuts about these cars, just like we love our cars. They'd trailer in 1984 Indy Pace Car models with 1400 miles on them, talk all day about V8 swaps (it's pretty cool to see a 350 shoved in the back of a Fiero), etc. etc.

The 2.8 motors are nice motors. They'll spool up pretty good for an old school GM pushrod motor. Lots of torque. I've seen guys get rubber in 3 gears, so there is some grunt there.

It's a quirky little car and I'm sure there are plenty of followers out there yet... The Formula model seems to be the really rare model of the bunch. Those models got the handling and 2.8 without the heavier GT spoilers and such.

The '88's were pretty reliable from what I've read and my brother had zero problems with his car and he bought it used with 3000 miles on it. Pontiac finally got that car dialed in for that model year, but then was discontinued. I agree that the '88's were probably the best looking of the bunch and the early cars are somewhat awkward looking in the front end.

Not all that long ago, there was a black over black '84 for sale in my area (4 cylinder, 4 speed manual). It had something like 14,000 miles on it and they wanted $3995. It sold very quickly.

Jay
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