Conceived in the late 1970s as a two-seat economy commuter car, the Pontiac Fiero evolved into a sports car over its short life span. Just as it became the car it should have been, GM killed it.

In the 1980s, Pontiac adopted the tagline "We Build Excitement." By that point, the auto brand had been around for over 50 years and produced a number of cars that certainly lived up to the ...