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Originally Posted by 1QWIKBIRD
Can anyone honestly say with a straight face that the GTO was NOT a bust?
Drivetrain.....CHECK Worldclass....we can agree on this.
Interior apppointments........CHECK...way ahead of any F-body and huge step forward for GM.....
Exterior........The one that looked like a Cobalt on a strectched wheelbase? Fail, huge Fail.... The GTO's exterior styling was so generic that without the badges you would be hard pressed to pick it out in a crowd.
How much R&D, tooling and marketing $$$$ got flushed down the tubes on that one?
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Not much. I seem to remember it being one of the most rushed projects in GM's history. A few months to convert the entire Holden car to USA spec.