Checking out some auto mags while the wife was doing grocery shopping I stumbled across a news bit in GM High Tech Performance saying that 2006 will be the last year for the GTO and GM will be without a rwd coupe to compete against the new Mustang for a few years. Better snatch them up while you can because these will probably become a collectors item a few years down the road. GM brass better figure something out or else other auto companies will leave them in the dust and they won't be able to catch up.
yea ive known this for a little while now.....not shure exactly what there gonna do, but i have seen concept pics for a 2008 camaro
F@%#!!
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yet another stake that GM somehow manages to put in their own coffin.. =(
EastCoastBeast II wrote:yet another stake that GM somehow manages to put in their own coffin.. =(
-no more f body
-no more rwd
-no more gto
-no more anything sweet
-no more f body
-no more vagina for gm CEO
-Borsty
Borsty wrote:
-no more f body
-no more rwd
-no more gto
-no more anything sweet
-no more f body
-no more vagina for gm CEO
Hey but they DO still have 43 versions of the same SUV....
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i totally agree with Eastcoast beast, Borsty,and Rob
Borsty wrote:EastCoastBeast II wrote:yet another stake that GM somehow manages to put in their own coffin.. =(
-no more f body
-no more rwd
-no more gto
-no more anything sweet
-no more f body
-no more vagina for gm CEO
I thought GM was a big vagina.......
^^ why, cuz they keep getting fuct?
its not like he can lube up the company and @!#$ it in the ass thou......wait....he kinda is.
and yeah, i want the same 4 suvs, but to look slightly different 175869 times
stupid bitches.
-Borsty
FWIW - they said when the GTO came out that it was only gonna be around for 3 years...
Then again, I would have thought that GM would have it's replacement (built in NA) out by then.
Perhaps not. Pity... I'll just have to keep mine...
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I have an idea.
Maybe we should complain that we WANT SUV's and we don't really want any RWD vehicles, since GM does such a good job of pissing off the customer, maybe they will start making performance RWD vehicles.
I guess they don't want anything in there lineup to compete with the new comaro/TA replacement
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i say everyone get an f-body and show gm that we need f-bodies back. bring back the camaro.
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please please PLEASE explain to me the reasoning behind this. produce a car for, oh two to three years and then give it the axe for no apparent reason? *sigh* i want to like GM so badly...but they are dumber than women
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97cavy22 wrote:yea ive known this for a little while now.....not shure exactly what there gonna do, but i have seen concept pics for a 2008 camaro
Not to burst anyone's bubble and i may be wrong too, but i was reading in HOTROD magazine that GM has post-poned the 2008 camaro
The thing i don't understand... GM has been laying all these people off and making all these changes because they are about to go bankrupt. One thing they said they were gonna do different is make cars that customers want... so they quit making any sort of rwd coupe. Cars that customers
want?
Again, I've driven my dad's 05 quite a bit, and it was a great car. A little bland yes, but drive it and you will understand. It's probably a good thing it was a short stint.
My first car ever was a 1967 RS/SS Camaro, which I'd still have if it wouldn't have gotten stolen. If GM brought back the camaro ( I know Im praying.. ) and made it look like the first gen camaro's to battle the mustang, my SS would be for sale immediatly know matter how far along I was with it.
Ford did well with the new mustang, if GM counter's with a "retro" Camaro OR firebird it's all over for ford.
I heard a new body style was in the works for the 07 GTO, but I haven't researched that car for months so I don't know if that is true or not.
The new GTO's are great cars, they just don't have the "style" to match the performance contained within them.
No wonder GM is going downhill.
From the beginnning the GTO was only going to have a 3-year run. GM was originally going to use the Zeta platform as the basis for a number of RWD vehicles, including the next generation of the GTO, but cancelled the program when it became too costly for them to use. There was talk of using a Zeta Light platform, but nothing substantial has come out yet, so at the best you're looking at a couple of years for GM to recover and get the GTO's repalcement out to Market
Goodwrench-GT made a post about this months ago, it even had a press-release from Lutz in it.
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Sigh..... I guess Ill have to buy a ford.....
