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Originally posted by The Blob
The GTO is the perfect illustration of how people will complain about anything.
For years "enthusiasts" have done nothing but bitch about the lack of RWD performance vehicles from GM. So when GM finally does exactly what they did with the original muscle cars - stuff a bad-ass engine in an ordinary mid-size sedan - they complain about that
News flash - the original GTO was just a big engine stuffed in a (for the time) nondescript car. The Tempest was far from anything special back in '64. It was totally ordinary.
Originally posted by Pablo
might as well be a ford taurus
Originally posted by The Blob
News flash - the original GTO was just a big engine stuffed in a (for the time) nondescript car. The Tempest was far from anything special back in '64. It was totally ordinary.
You can't go strictly by numbers as there wasn't a foreign car presence back then. More models to choose from, etc. Out of a projected 16K, they just about built them out. Very different dynamic involved now compared to back then.Originally posted by MeanBuicks
Totally ordinary perhaps. However, Pontiac sold 32,450 GTOs in '64 & 75,352 in '65. Obviously, since only 15,728 2004 units were sold and '05 production is being scaled back about 30%, the new ones just aren't hitting a nerve with the buying public no matter how good it actually is.