Looks nice. I wonder if it will make it through Pontiac's marketing
department without an extra 100 pounds of Rubbermaid body cladding being
added. I think that there must be some obscure contract tucked away
somewhere at GM that forces Pontiac to saddle all cars with that stuff.
Surely it cannot be under the guise of styling.
Dave Hardy
89 SM
DILYSI Motorsports - Drive It Like You Stole It!
----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Murray <mattm@optonline.net>
To: Teamdotnet <autox@autox.team.net>; NER Solo postings <nersolo@ner.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 3:14 AM
Subject: New F Stock car?
> New F Stock car?
> http://www.autonews.com/news.cms?newsId=1849
> Lutz: Monaro will be next GTO
>
> By Jim Henry
> Automotive News / March 27, 2002
> Aussie import won't end GM's quest for rwd cars - 2002-03-11
>
> Lutz: Monaro will be next GTO
>
>
> The next Pontiac GTO will come from Australia.
>
> General Motors product czar Robert Lutz told a breakfast group at
> the New York Auto Show that GM will import the Australian-built
> Monaro to the U.S. About 20,000 each year will be imported into
> the United States.
>
> The high-performance car is built by a special vehicle division
> of GM's Australian Holden unit.
>
> The U.S. version will come with a 5.7 liter V-8 and a 6-speed
> manual transmission. It will make its debut at either the 2003
> Los Angeles or Detroit auto shows, said Lutz. It will be sold as
> a 2004 model Pontiac GTO.
>
> The current V8 model sells for about $30,000 in Australia.
>
> Lutz, GM's vice chairman, called it "an instant cult classic. ...
>
> "It's the most sought after, high-profile car on Australia's
> roads now," he said. "It will deliver the type of performance
> that made the original GTO famous."
>
> The Monaro will re-establish a link to Pontiac's performance
> heyday, which peaked in 1970 when the division rolled out its
> biggest engine, a 455-cubic inch, 375-hp V-8 for the GTO and
> Firebird. Pontiac built the GTO from the 1964 through the 1974
> model years in a variety of body styles.
>
> Pontiac enthusiasts have been clamoring for a true GTO
> replacement for years, but GM has resisted because it didn't have
> a suitable rear-wheel-drive platform.
>
> Lutz said it is possible that other models from its successful
> Australian unit might make it to the U.S. market, but the total
> number of vehicles wouldn't be large.
>
> "We can't talk about overcapacity in the U.S. and bring in tens
> of thousands of cars from overseas," he said.
>
>
> Matt Murray
>
> mattm@optonline.net
>
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