Pontiac won’t apologize for the fact that this car doesn’t look, feel or perform like the car for which it was named. It has a V8, sure, but it doesn’t even come from the same continent. So to all of you looking to the resurrected GTO as the second coming of a sacred old nameplate, too bad. This ain’t your daddy’s GTO, and no, it doesn’t have a hood scoop, not even of the sticker variety with which Pontiac jokingly threatened us. You’re better off picking up any one of a thousand 30-year-old models still spewing fumes around the back roads of this great nation and being done with it. But keep this in mind as you grip that skinny steering wheel, slide around in that seat and lumber around the turns: The new GTO bests that old beast in every noteworthy way. Except one, that is.
Man, that old goat looked good.
The 2004 model, hmmm, not so much. We—and many of you, we’ve heard—find the GTO’s exterior styling utterly forgettable, if not exactly ugly, and hardly reminiscent of its namesake. Pontiac says that’s intentional. Rather than designing a “retro” car, Pontiac says it likes to think that, had it not killed the GTO after the 1974 model year, the Goat would have evolved to look much like this car today. (Kind of convenient, then, that the General already had a car exactly like it hiding out Down Under.)
Full Review HERE
Man, that old goat looked good.
The 2004 model, hmmm, not so much. We—and many of you, we’ve heard—find the GTO’s exterior styling utterly forgettable, if not exactly ugly, and hardly reminiscent of its namesake. Pontiac says that’s intentional. Rather than designing a “retro” car, Pontiac says it likes to think that, had it not killed the GTO after the 1974 model year, the Goat would have evolved to look much like this car today. (Kind of convenient, then, that the General already had a car exactly like it hiding out Down Under.)
Full Review HERE
h34r: ? What'd you expect? I can't wait to see the review on t.v. 
