Originally posted by Hudson@May 7 2004, 02:59 PM
The Mitsubishi 3000GT was sold in Japan as the Mitsubishi GTO as well. And if Pontiac could sue, wouldn't Ferrari have sued GM for use of the GTO name? It was theirs first.
Ferrari did sue, but they lost.

Its kinda hard to f with the largeset car company in the world, even if you are Ferrari.
Ferrari was pissed when Car and Driver (yeah, I said Car and Driver) said that the Tempest GTO could stick with the Ferrari GTO in a strait line. Now, the Ferrari GTO is like the Enzo of today. It was the car everyone measured there performance against. So you can imagine the coconuts Car and Driver had. Pontiac has sent a ringer H.O. 421 GTO, and that was enough free-press to jumpstart the GTO into the history books.
As for the mitsu GTO, like hudson said, the 3000GT VR4 in Japan was the GTO. You can see some people that "convert" there car buy putting the 3 letters on the back.