You also have to place a HUGE blame (on why the GTO never took off) directly on the freekin money hungry DEALERS
. Some of marked up the 2004 car $5,000 when they first came out and would NOT allow you to take a test drive without a deposit. After about 3 months of sitting on their lots, the prices came down to list, but still NO discounts. I went to look at 4 of them at a Pontiac dealer on Rt.18 in New Brunswick about 2 years ago. These cars were 2 years old, had sat in one place out in the open with no wax protection and looked beat. The dealer ONLY offered $2,000 off of list. The biggest drawback was the VERY small trunk, due to the relocation of the gas tank.