Holden COupe 60
2/28/08, 05:52 PM
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Holden COupe 60
**** you holden!!!
I want one!!!
http://jalopnik.com/362085/holden-re...upe-60-concept
Factory side exhaust..I mean come on just look at it (loook at the bones man!!!!)
It's simply awesome
I want one!!!
http://jalopnik.com/362085/holden-re...upe-60-concept
Factory side exhaust..I mean come on just look at it (loook at the bones man!!!!)
It's simply awesome
2/29/08, 09:09 AM
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This should SOOO be the next GTO!
Sure, a bit over the top in some aspects, it is a concept afterall, but toned down to a production version, this thing would look great and flashy enough for all GTO nuts short of those who envision a GTO Judge like clown show.
This, in Pontiac livery, would evoke perfectly the gentleman's V8 performance coupe that was the original GTO conception and would make the perfect step up for Camaro owners after their acne has cleared up, trimmed their mullets and swapped their Def Leppard T-shirts for a nice button down.
Pontiac and Maximum Bob Lutz have been downplaying a next GTO based on the mediocre sales of the last excellent if uber-Cobalt-looking last iteration. But I think that would be a mistake and the styling of this would make a perfect wrapper for the excellent Zeta platform. I predict that GM will quit whining about CAFE when GTO and other performance car fans start clamoring for this goat.
Sure, a bit over the top in some aspects, it is a concept afterall, but toned down to a production version, this thing would look great and flashy enough for all GTO nuts short of those who envision a GTO Judge like clown show.
This, in Pontiac livery, would evoke perfectly the gentleman's V8 performance coupe that was the original GTO conception and would make the perfect step up for Camaro owners after their acne has cleared up, trimmed their mullets and swapped their Def Leppard T-shirts for a nice button down.
Pontiac and Maximum Bob Lutz have been downplaying a next GTO based on the mediocre sales of the last excellent if uber-Cobalt-looking last iteration. But I think that would be a mistake and the styling of this would make a perfect wrapper for the excellent Zeta platform. I predict that GM will quit whining about CAFE when GTO and other performance car fans start clamoring for this goat.
2/29/08, 10:22 AM
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This thing is pretty freakin sweet. I would like to see a little bit of work on that nose, but everything else is perfect. Love those backseats!!
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2/29/08, 07:13 PM
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Of course it should. Maintains the whole 'G' moniker, too.
But it will never come to America now, not now that the government has passed - and the president has signed - that new anti-muscle car / anti-horsepower / anti-high displacement legislation.
It's over, folks. And things were just getting interesting once more. I guess it's back to Mustang IIs again.
But it will never come to America now, not now that the government has passed - and the president has signed - that new anti-muscle car / anti-horsepower / anti-high displacement legislation.
It's over, folks. And things were just getting interesting once more. I guess it's back to Mustang IIs again.
3/2/08, 06:19 AM
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As for nomenclature, call the whole coupe line one overarching name, like Tempest, and the V8 version the Tempest GTO, which what the first GTO really was anyway.
But yeah, a G8 coupe, whatever you call the thang, is so achingly obvious that Pontiac has to make it. It would make the perfect upmarket complement to the Camaro, sort of a more refined, thinking-man's performance coupe.
But yeah, a G8 coupe, whatever you call the thang, is so achingly obvious that Pontiac has to make it. It would make the perfect upmarket complement to the Camaro, sort of a more refined, thinking-man's performance coupe.
3/3/08, 03:15 PM
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As for nomenclature, call the whole coupe line one overarching name, like Tempest, and the V8 version the Tempest GTO, which what the first GTO really was anyway.
But yeah, a G8 coupe, whatever you call the thang, is so achingly obvious that Pontiac has to make it. It would make the perfect upmarket complement to the Camaro, sort of a more refined, thinking-man's performance coupe.
But yeah, a G8 coupe, whatever you call the thang, is so achingly obvious that Pontiac has to make it. It would make the perfect upmarket complement to the Camaro, sort of a more refined, thinking-man's performance coupe.
Sadly, this car will never come to North America because of it.
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Of course it should. Maintains the whole 'G' moniker, too.
But it will never come to America now, not now that the government has passed - and the president has signed - that new anti-muscle car / anti-horsepower / anti-high displacement legislation.
It's over, folks. And things were just getting interesting once more. I guess it's back to Mustang IIs again.
But it will never come to America now, not now that the government has passed - and the president has signed - that new anti-muscle car / anti-horsepower / anti-high displacement legislation.
It's over, folks. And things were just getting interesting once more. I guess it's back to Mustang IIs again.
The new CAFE standards do put a lot of pressure on manufacturers to greatly improve ecomomy, but that can be achieved in a wide array of manners, from producing more offsetting economy cars to improving the efficiencies of all cars. Of course, they could take the dumb and lazy approach as they did in the '70s and just eviscerate their cars.
Interesting how history has repeated itself in the muscle cars wars, the rerun, with ever fatter, more powerful, heavier and thirstier cars. Sadly, typical American historical short-sightedness may condemn us to repeat it once again.
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