the next transam?

[ramenboy...]

ok guys, lets weigh in...what do you think?

[tcam]

dayuum that looks good. what year do u think we will see this? if we ever doalso, do u have any specs on it?

[TJinPgh]

Hmmm. Can't see the front end, but the profile makes it sort of look like a Corvette wanna-be.I have to assume that if this is actually built (which, given Pontiac's desire to go the performance route, I imagine it probably will be), this will be built on the same rear wheel drive platform as the Camaro (which will also shortly be used for the GTO, Impala & Monte Carlo).

[KNINE]

I smell a made-for-tv Knight Rider reunoin movie!

[ramenboy...]

hahahahah!!!!!kitt and michael reunite and get a facelift together!!!!here's a rendering of the fronttj, you're right. the article in winding road includes a test drive of the new camaro. i would guess, then that the specs would be about the same, tcam. article says to look for it around 2011...

[TJinPgh]

Hmmm, I like it. Still retro, but more like the late 70s versions.I'm thinking Smokey And The Bandit Part... what... 5?No Jackie Gleason this time, though

[TJinPgh]

Quote, originally posted by K-NINE »I smell a made-for-tv Knight Rider reunoin movie! How quickly (and so willingly) we have forgotten Knight Rider 2000, where they built KITT into a Pontiac Banshee.

[kevera]

Reminds me of this,

[tcam]

Quote, originally posted by kevera »Reminds me of this,(removed)! what a goofy looking back-end. how does the transam remind u of that? lol

[kevera]

The rear window in the first pic,fugly.It gets uglier,

[Mavrik]

That looks mean and nasty, I'd drive one

[Whelan]

Golden Eagle Trans Am is the hotness. My uncle had a Smokey and the Bandit car to the T. It was slick. He now has a 03-04 Vette.

[drunkenmaxx]

eh, the rear kind of looks like an aurora.

[GrayFox]

the back pic looks awesome but... I'm not digging the front too much

[VforVIBE]

You'll never see the Trans Am/Fire Bird again, Pontiac's new baby is the GTO... GM is slowly getting smarter, they're going to stop competing against themselves... not to mention it was announced that the Trans Am/Fire Bird is done with.

[kevera]

Someone here is in the Irish spirit.St.Patty's day is on the horizon .

[Vibe_dude]

The TA is gone for good.......and the Monty Carlo is gone as well......and so are all of GM's mini vans...and if gas keeps going up who knows what else will go.

[LUVROK]

I'm liking that TransAm. The B-pillar resembles the lates 70's-early 90's T/A's to a T. One look at that thing without badging sitting in the midle of a parking lot in South Korea and you would know it is the next T/A. GM will eventually get their act together and bring back the T/A along with the Camaro. The future is all about more variety and less quantity. The technology exists today to efficiently make multiple brands on the same platform using the same assets...it will come..GM will get there.

[pvt num 11]

If the Firebird is brought back looking anything like the latest Camaro, it should stay gone.Here's a list of stuff I think the Firebird and Trans Am should include. Feel free to disagree as you see fit.It needs flip-up lights (twenty years of having them wasn't too bad) to set it apart from the Camaro.It needs fender-mounted engine bay heat extractors that work.It needs a functional wing or spoiler on the back. I'm partial to a wing. Made out of resin, NOT the rubberized crap that graced the third-gens. (But that wing really did work!)It needs a shaker hood scoop, or barring that, a power bulge hood. (Ram Air scoops got old after a bit.)It needs tail-light lenses that appear to be black until they light up.It needs way better rims - diamond-spoke or those nifty geodisic ones the second-gen cars had - GM still has the patent on those.It needs to lose the hood bird, a smaller one on the nose is fine.It needs to be white, if it's a Trans Am. That's the first color it came in, and that's what all the anniversary editions came in. With a blue stripe. Black is another good color, naturally.It needs to be marketed against the Corvette. It has long been seen as a poor-man's Corvette anyway, why change that?It needs the subtle little styling cues (note the word subtle) that sets it apart from the Camaro. Gold accents. High-quality badging. Engine call-outs. Interior trim that fits the personality of the car. Aerodynamic enhancements, not gimmicky stuff, but stuff that is proven in a wind-tunnel.It needs to have a Firehawk version to run down those pesky Corvettes.It needs to have marketing done properly for the base models, so they don't feel inferior to the top cars. Just one reason why the base cars didn't sell nearly as well as, say, the base model Mustangs.It needs a turbo-charged V8 as an engine option, like an LS1 or something. And make it easy to modify with aftermarket goodies.It needs to be capable of some pretty anti-social behavior, and it needs to look it, too.Any additions?

[NascarXprt]

or is GM's Pontiac division jsut "telling" us that the will not be one and they are secretly building one under our noses and will release it without any advertising?