To be honest it does have some cues from the Mustang, I'll agree. But sometimes I get the feeling that people won't be happy no matter what GM does. When I heard there was a GTO, I thought to myself... oh great, GM is going to have a wrong wheel drive with fancy badges and expect it to sell. Or worse yet, some rebadge from one of their Asian shared partners. (I'm thinking of the LeMans of the mid-90s that was such a disgrace to the LeMans of 60s and 70s.
But this actually sounds like it has some grunt under the hood. It's rear wheel drive. It even comes in choice of tranny... stick or auto. Come on... it's not too often that GM rolls something off the line with a stick shift. Either that, or you have to go through an act of Congress to get what you want with stick. So I have to hand GM a few kudos. Perhaps the F-bird and Camaro weren't hacking it any more. I sure as heck hated seeing the legendary names sent to the abyss. But at least they have something.
Now, as far as PRE-ORDERING them on E-bay for some crazy price above MSRP, that may be clever, but there's no way in heck I'd fall for that. I'm sorry.. first I want to see the car in person. I want to drive it, live with it for a few days and everything before I think of breaking out the wallet. And at that.. I'm a little hesitant about buying a first year run as well... that's a recall waiting to happen.
So with that being said... I'll just sit back and watch the bidding numbers fly.
