50 Products That Changed The World

50 Products That Changed The World[product]50 Pontiac GTO[/product] [releaseInfo](1964)[/releaseInfo] The memo from Pontiac's top brass to the engineers was clear—no new cars built for speed. In the early 1960s big, slow, "responsible" automobiles were the future. But chief engineer John De Lorean saw a loophole. Instead of designing a new car, he retooled an old one–the Tempest LeMans–fitting it with a 389-cubic-inch Tri-Power engine, bucket seats and a race-car-style floor shifter. T...