Spent most of the afternoon at the Baltimore auto show today. Most of the crowds were around the Vette' 300C Hemi and Mustang. (no surprises there) The line waiting for sitting in and around the GTO was quite small and no wait even though it was promoting the 400 horses and performance time's and was only 1 car there to sit in. (nobody was paying any attention at all to the G6 even though it was being heavily promoted) The crowds around the 300C were a little more substantial and were mostly older in age and family sedan shopping type.

The crowds around the Mustang were quite large with many people waiting to sit in their choice of:

Black GT W/red int
Torch Red V6
Yellow V6

They did have a windveil blue GT vert but it was on a revolving platform that you couldn't get up to.

They had a "special" section promoting the early GTO's (don't worry they did the Mustangs last year). They were almost every year Goat from 64 through 72 I believe. Then they had a new GTO and the end of the line. I hung out for a little while and everyone had nice comments about the old Goats but when they got to the end of the line with the new one all anybody really said was "Yeah that's the new one but the Mustangs are alot better and less money." They would then shake their heads and walk off.

I know this is long but thought everyone should know.

 

"... We Build Excitement... the GTO is a POS"
-- Pontiac VP of Sales

 

My favorite line about the GTO came from CNN Money.

"No performance Automobile in years has turned fewer heads or opened fewer wallets"