FIRST LOOK: 2008 Pontiac GTO

ragingfish · Post by **ragingfish** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:15 pm

Quote, originally posted by AutoWeek Â»GTO Regeneration: Next-gen Pontiac muscle car reportedly will hit market in '08BOB GRITZINGERPosted Date: 8/3/05What you see in this illustration is a fairly close rendition of what we can expect when the next-generation Pontiac GTO hits the market in 2008. We say Ã¢Â€Âœfairly closeÃ¢Â€Â because weÃ¢Â€Â™ve seen the super-secret spy photos upon which it is based, and the actual shots show a sleeker, wider, lower and, frankly, far more appealing car.ThatÃ¢Â€Â™s the good news.The bad news is General MotorsÃ¢Â€Â™ Aussie division Holden reportedly may not start cranking out these future Goats until 2008, a full two years after production ceases on the 2006 Holden Monaro-based GTO.One more tidbit: ItÃ¢Â€Â™s not shown here, but we hear GM is considering doing this GTO as a four-door coupe, using rear-hinged rear-access doors without visible handles.Source: http://www.autoweek.com/news.cms?newsId=102907

Mr. Poopypants · Post by **Mr. Poopypants** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:28 pm

Don't like the post going down the center of the grill and the body looks like the new mustang.Hopefully the author of the column is right about the spy photos not looking like the car shown.

ragingfish · Post by **ragingfish** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:34 pm

They attempted to do what ford did with the mustang. recapture some gto heritage, while still maintaining modern design features.looks like they failed miserably.

Mr. Poopypants · Post by **Mr. Poopypants** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:38 pm

Quote, originally posted by ragingfish Â»They attempted to do what ford did with the mustang. recapture some gto heritage, while still maintaining modern design features.looks like they failed miserably. That's what I'm talkin about. There are a lot of good things to recapture from the old GTO, unfortunately, they don't look good on modern styling. They need to flat out redesign the car if they want to do it correctly, screw trying to go retro, it won't work on this car. And for the love of god, don't make it another GM clone.

jeffgtx · Post by **jeffgtx** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:54 pm

would you rather it looked like that concept they did in 99 or whenever it was?

ragingfish · Post by **ragingfish** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 2:00 pm

Quote, originally posted by jeffgtx Â»would you rather it looked like that concept they did in 99 or whenever it was?this one???HA! That is funny.

jeffgtx · Post by **jeffgtx** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 2:15 pm

yea that one. i was more referring to teh front end (like it) than the whole thing.the magic GTO sponge car.

ColonelPanic · Post by **ColonelPanic** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 2:18 pm

They would have had it if it weren't been that damn snout! While it tries to recapture the Goat of old, I think it makes the poor thing look more like one of those Mitsubishi Galants. Jeffgtx, I kinda dig that concept.

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Mr. Poopypants · Post by **Mr. Poopypants** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:31 pm

That 99 GTO concept is (removed) ugly.

JustinVGT · Post by **JustinVGT** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:17 pm

I think the current GTO looks much better than those GTO concepts! Those things are UGLY! It really does look like they learned some ugly styling cues from Mitsubishi. The hood looks like the current Galant and the grill/lights also reminds me of the previous generation Galant. YUCK! The rest of the car looks similar to the new Mustang.Previous Galant, see the grill/front:

ZubenElGenubi · Post by **ZubenElGenubi** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:39 am

More like "Nose inspired by Ford":

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ragingfish · Post by **ragingfish** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:40 am

I don't see any similarities?

Toasted7 · Post by **Toasted7** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:52 am

All I can say... SCHWEET!

drunkenmaxx · Post by **drunkenmaxx** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 1:21 am

hell, i like it. it looks more like the original!

Mavrik · Post by **Mavrik** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 2:29 am

Quote, originally posted by Toasted7 Â»All I can say... SCHWEET!I WANT ONE!! thats definatly SWEET!

Psychobroker · Post by **Psychobroker** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:08 am

Quote, originally posted by ColonelPanic Â»They would have had it if it weren't been that damn snout! While it tries to recapture the Goat of old, I think it makes the poor thing look more like one of those Mitsubishi Galants. Jeffgtx, I kinda dig that concept. I disagree about the comparison to the Galant...aside from the split grille, I see a completely different front end..

redlava · Post by **redlava** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:07 am

DO NOT like the front end. The rest of the body still looks like the Monaro. In my opinion Pontiac needs to try again.That '99 concept looks pretty sweet. Wouldn't mind having that in my garage.

NUBlackshirts · Post by **NUBlackshirts** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:22 am

Meet the new 2008 Mitsubishi Mustang! This can't possibly be what they are thinking about building.

Sputnik · Post by **Sputnik** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:31 am

Quote, originally posted by Mavrik Â»I WANT ONE!! thats definatly SWEET!Yeah I like it too, surprisingly. Its different - I like different. Its why I have a Vibe!

ragingfish · Post by **ragingfish** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:46 am

Giving it a second look, it's not HORRIBLE.But the upper "retro" part of the fascia doesn't match the lower "modern" part of it. It looks like they kept the lower part of the current GTO fascia, removed the grilles and headlamps, and welded in a replacement upper.With a little tweaking, I actually could come to like this car. *gasp!*

ColonelPanic · Post by **ColonelPanic** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:07 am

So, you getting the current gen GTO before production stops?

ragingfish · Post by **ragingfish** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:28 am

Could be! You'll find out soon enough...

ColonelPanic · Post by **ColonelPanic** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:35 am

lol! Keepin' us all out of the loop... gosh darnit!

redlava · Post by **redlava** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 7:40 am

Honestly I like the current GTO WWWWAAAAAAYYYYYYY better than the '08. Doesn't look like they did anything except mess with the front end which just doesn't look right. Not quite sure why, but it doesn't. It just looks cheesy to me. JMHO

ColonelPanic · Post by **ColonelPanic** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 7:43 am

I don't like it either... I'd much rather have the current generation GTO... Screw that new design!

george · Post by **george** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:23 am

Sorry to break any hearts but the GTO will be disscontinued in 07 no more! this hurts me aswell being my first car was a 1970 Goat i miss that car damn but they missed the boat on this car with projected sales way behind it is not even comming close to the marks of the mustang and this kills me trust me because i hate fords the mustang is nice in that it hit the homerun in stylin , unlike the grand am looka like with a vette motor last year Holden only issued i beleive 18,000 units a year as of july last year they had not quite 6,000 units sold nation wide "not good" so this year wasnt much differnt even with all this employee discounts going on there still on the lots its a shame hopefully GM will hit a home run with this new HHR

ColonelPanic · Post by **ColonelPanic** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:56 am

The thought of that sucks! What's funny though, in my area at least, counting what I see out there on the road - there are 2-3 GTO's per one Vibe.

jeffgtx · Post by **jeffgtx** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:18 am

theres too many articles going around to think its truly dead.i sw one today that had the GT being built off a rear wheel drive GP paltform

george · Post by **george** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:13 pm

http://www.tintdude.com/forum/....html check this sight out guess were not the only one thats agrees it sucks and read about half way it shows that holden is discontinuing the body style bye bye GTO

ragingfish · Post by **ragingfish** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 5:29 pm

The GTO is not *dead*. Last I heard, it was to be absent from 07 and brought back in 08 as a total redesign. There are also strong rumors to a rebirth of "The Judge."Trust me my friends, the Goat is here to stay for now...

redlava · Post by **redlava** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 9:34 pm

Quote, originally posted by george Â»http://www.tintdude.com/forum/....html check this sight out guess were not the only one thats agrees it sucks and read about half way it shows that holden is discontinuing the body style bye bye GTO Ragingfish is correct, I believe that is the reason for the the redesign. Holden will probably discontinue the Monaro so Pontiac has to redesign the car. It will be back, hopefully not with that front end though.

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