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If GM doesn't screw this up, I'll buy one...
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I have an aussie friend that would give his left nut for one of those to come over here. He was going to get a Vette until I told him the Manaro might come over. He said it would be like a Vette with a rear seat. And, insurance "should" be less.
And, if the Pontiac bumpers/facia isn't to his taste, he's going to get a relative to ship over the real Manaro stuff for a conversion.
Smoothe car, I saw them in person when I was in AU in 2000.
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That is one badass MF! 
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It figures that the "old school" guys wouldn't like the use of G.T.O. but Ferrari used the name before Pontiac did. Also they went as far as to lie about the 64 GTO beating a Ferrari GTO in a Motor Trend magazine "shootout", yeah I'm sure that was some "shootout" alright. The GTO was modified by Royal Pontiac in Royal Oak MI and its a well known fact that they lied about it in the magazine. Jim Wrangler, afiliated with GM and I can't remember how right now, said as much on Speedvision during American muscle car. I pretty sure the "goat" had a 421 in it, along with other "go fast goodies" but there is now way in hell that car was going to beat a light weight V-12 Ferrari :rolleyes: The next G.T.O. is going to be bad ass and I hope they do a good job on it, unlike the last G.T.O. in 1974, can you say Nova 
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GM is notorious for blowing it on big stuff, so don't hold your breath. If Ford was smart, they'd bring the XR8 Rebel to North America. Some good competition.
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If it looks like anything, it's an Avenger. But I like how it looks a lot and, with the LS1, it should rock a bit. I'd trade the Si for it.
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can anyone say m3 anyway the car i think looks alot like the bmw m3 at least that is what it should be like and if it is i'm game new car.
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Originally posted by thunderbird sc:
[QB]can anyone say m3 anyway the car i think looks alot like the bmw m3QB] Try M5 Looks sharp. I'd buy one if I was rich.
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Appealing to "old school" guys still listening to Styx/Boston and wearing Mullet hair brought GM down. They need to look past the trailer parks and offer cars the real world wants.
The new GTO will have an American made V8 engine in it, a good start. "Pontiac made" engines are gone forever, get over it. If car companies never changed, they would still be making Model T's with had crank starters.
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Originally posted by 2000v6SE:
Appealing to "old school" guys still listening to Styx/Boston and wearing Mullet hair brought GM down. They need to look past the trailer parks and offer cars the real world wants.
The new GTO will have an American made V8 engine in it, a good start. "Pontiac made" engines are gone forever, get over it. If car companies never changed, they would still be making Model T's with had crank starters. Always the voice of reason. Well said.
Dan Parmelee
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