[BigAls87Z28]

aye, good point with that.

I brought it up on another site, and Ill bring it up here. The idea of muscle cars and pony cars and all this really needs to merge into a new, more modern catagory.
Muscle coupe or Muscle Sport Coupe or something.
Muscle cars had its day back int he 60's and 70's, and yes we still can use the term, but even the most advanced Muscle car of teh 60's or 70's cant hold a candle to what GM, Ford, or DCX can do now outside of strait line performance. Now its mroe about the total package then just nailing it down the 1320. To call any modern sports car a "muscle car" would almost be blasphemy. But I guess the muscle car moniker will be around just like the "Hemi".

Anyway...is the GTO a muscle car? In the modern, 21st century deffinition...yes. Does the new GTO live up to the old one? Big hp engine, mid sized car, manual transmission, RWD, and Pontiac grill....sounds good to me.