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| Posted By: Webmaster Posted On: Dec 18, 2001 Views: 145 | Comment is Welcomed Tell us why you think the GTO should or should not be built or if it need some changes to the GTO. |
| Posted By: Donnylee Posted On: Dec 19, 2001 Views: 144 | RE: Comment is Welcomed While I think the power plant and rear wheel is attrative and offers potential, this car lacks styling, very japeneese looking. I will go out on a limb and say that the last concept GTO has grown on me more then when it first came out. If the concept was refined a bit more with this engine combination, it would be more attractive then this very plain looking car. I love vintage GTO's, but would not loathe a repectable new modern version with performance you would expect from a RWD GTO. For most the GTO nameplate is sacred. Not for me if it is pact with performance and follows some traditional traits. |
| Posted By: Dennis Posted On: Dec 20, 2001 Views: 137 | RE: Comment is Welcomed absolutely not. There should be a choice on that poll for "lower the price, but do not call it a GTO." I would've voted for that. I think it would be a nice car with a little styling work, but it is not a GTO. Call it a Grand Am, Grand Prix or give it a name of its own. If they want to make a REAL GTO, put a REAL Pontiac powerplant in it, make it rear wheel drive, and give it a classic pontiac design. That will never happen so there will never be another GTO. just my opinion. |
| Posted By: greg Posted On: Feb 15, 2002 Views: 121 | RE: Comment is Welcomed as an australian....and an owner of a 69 ra3 goat,i believe that the monaro...hsv...gto should be released in the usa as anything else...but not a gto...the monaro ,in oz is a legend as is the gto over there....in there day they were like chalk and cheese.....the gto is a legend and cannot be duplicated....even with technology....just my 2 bobs worth...or near a dime.... |
| Posted By: Jeffa Posted On: Feb 22, 2002 Views: 117 | RE: Comment is Welcomed why not sell it in the US as a HSV GTO? |
| Posted By: Scott Posted On: Mar 10, 2002 Views: 102 | Comment is Welcomed Just call it the Pontiac HSV. I'm all for a rear drive GTO but lets start from scratch and build something that is a little more retro looking. It should have plenty of power on tap and not look like an import. Toying with the GTO name gets a lot of people's hair standing on end. Make something great to associate the GTO name with unlike the way the LeMans was treated. Long as we're dreaming, how about a retro 1st gen firebird thats tasetfully done? |
| Posted By: Jim O Posted On: Mar 11, 2002 Views: 97 | RE: Comment is Welcomed I'd love to see the car come to the US (the styling is decent as it is, minor changes would be fine). I don't know whether I'd put the GTO name on it, but I would certainly consider using names such as "Tempest" or bringing back "LeMans" as something respectable. Using "Monaro" would be cool, too. Whatever they call it, I don't care too much as long as I can afford it. |
| Posted By: HQGTS Posted On: Apr 24, 2002 Views: 75 | RE: RE: Comment is Welcomed Market it here as it is in Australia and New Zealand: the HSV GTO. Pontiac is not the only brand to use the GTO moniker - the Italians have also used it for years. |
| Posted By: Brent Posted On: May 4, 2002 Views: 70 | RE: Comment is Welcomed Righto well bacily so there is no confusion, i would have Droped the name GTO, for to reasons. 1, It has been used before and there is no point naming it a GTO when there are other GTO products. 2, Why not name it somthing that is going to be rembered , and somthing that reflects on HSV and Australia. It is an asome car and Australia and more importantly HSV should get credit for such a fine machine. I'm not going to suggest a name as i'm not in a position to do so but any thing would have to be better then GTO, even HSV-x-Series would be appeling to the public and there would be no confusion. |
| Posted By: Troy L Posted On: Jul 13, 2002 Views: 52 | My opinion of the new GTO I have seen the GTO on the Pontiac web site. I am relieved to see that the drive train is a good representation of the power plant you would expect to see in the GTO of today. I am very disappointed in the body style. The best description of it I read on another site is that it looks like a jelly bean with out any distinctions from every other car on the market. One person described it as looking like a Ford Taurus. The big question is where are the hood scoops? Didn't all GTO's have some type of scoop or shaker design as in 1974. I guess that ram air is not an option. This car is supposed to be the replacement for the firebirds and camaros. I would think that it should then have some curves and body lines consistant with those cars. The 1999 concept was on the right track. It did have features from the legends of the past which could be seen in its design. I believe that the mid section was too thick in height from the window to rocker. I also thought that the front went down a little too much. The back end was even more blunt than a corvettes. I thought that it would look nice to shape the rear quarters and back panels more like a first generation firebird or Camaro. This would be a passed on feature in memory of the history of those cars. GM really needs to stop and look at the latest trend within the automotive industry. Manufactures are building the new cars to look like the old ones. The new thunderbird is an awsome looking car that reflects the character of its very expensive and highly sought after 50's counter parts. The PT cruiser, Bettle, Mustang, and prowler are other examples of cars that are going back to earlier designs, and they will sell. The body style on the Pontiac web site to me says that GM is too cheap not to be able to go beyond the expense of changing the grills of a Holden Monaro and slapping a GTO logo on the side. We should note GM's plan to produce strictly front wheel drive cars."dumb" I thought for sure the goat would end up crawling around on its front legs like a Japanes compact car, or a squirrel which had its hind quarters run over. I'm worried. Actions like this are more like those taken from a floundering corporation ready to collapse. Companies in trouble usually pull out every weapon in the arsenal, and put a "half assed" effort to put it into production. This is the traits of a last ditch effort to avoid bankruptcy. The Monaro and the GTO both share their own rich histories. There needs to be a seperation made to distinguish the individuality of each design. I hope that Lutz can strip the total control of GM from the hands of the Bean counters so that they can get back to the root engineering and styling that made them the giant they are today. Their current activity is very similar to That of American Motors Co. That brings to mind the sad notion that the current GTO body style would better represent an AMC Pacer "X", in 2004, than a GTO. I would guess to say that the GM executives drive european and japanese luxury cars. The GTO was never built on a Bonneville platform. Please don't try to change the recipe now. Coca cola tried that. Pontiac did it with the 1973 GTO. This was a car which lost the styling of the GTO. Learn from these mistakes. Sometimes I hear some strange things as I drive around in my 1968 ramair 2 GTO. One kid told me my car needed a tune up real bad. This generation don't really understand what Delorean did with the GTO and how variable the models performance could be ordered, from a touring to a total race version. I would rather that these kids tell me my car runs bad than to have them look at this new GTO and tell me that GTO's are no big deal. Troy L. |
| Posted By: Jarrad Posted On: Aug 1, 2002 Views: 47 | RE: RE: Comment is Welcomed I think that the gto should stay australian because if it doesnt what other cars can we be as proud about as we are about the hsv gto. Im not saying that pontiac are non deserving butt surely a company of there stature can come up with a car to equal the syle and class that is the hsv. |
| Posted By: HSVman Posted On: Aug 10, 2002 Views: 44 | RE: Comment is Welcomed even though it is an aussie car and im a New Zealander, the gto is one of the most awesome coupe's ever, however if you were going to use an hsv use the gts coupe it has 402bhp and is way cooler having seen a hsv gto today it makes me wish i had $40k |
| Posted By: george Posted On: Mar 29, 2003 Views: 30 | RE: Comment is Welcomed general motors should forget about putting the gto name on an australian import and develop a gto specifically for the american market, with a distinct american look, and build it right in the u.s.a. that's what i think, does anyone else feel the same way? |
| Posted By: GM TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Posted On: Feb 10, 2004 Views: 20 | RE: Comment is Welcomed THE NEW LS1 GTO IS OUT RITE AWESOME.... ESPECIALLY WITH A FEW LITTLE TWEEKS...... IT ALSO DOES A PRETTY MEAN BURN OUT, TRUST ME :> ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** |