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500HP GTO concept at Woodward, I'm liking the looks of this!!

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Old 08-19-04, 06:16 PM
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take out the guts - and you have urself a jack-o- lantern concept for the first picture. the HP is very impressive though

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Old 08-19-04, 07:22 PM
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the few of us over 40 guys around here just love seeing these muscle cars they're coming out with. The new modern cars can be made to produce some sweet sounding exhaust notes.....but they can't compare to the brute force produced by a muscle car. Riding in one is a feeling that can't be reproduced by the Asian cars or even the Germans. Again, they're nice but muscle is always stronger than just hot air.
So I say, Go GTO!
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not bad...
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Old 08-19-04, 11:52 PM
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I love the new GTO!! The only problem is reliability. I'm not sure if the GTO's are reliable. In fact, I don't trust american cars at all. My parents owned 2 american cars in the past and it always broked down on them. They won't buy anything except for toyota only!!
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You do know , that's a holden hsv made in australia right? There's nothing american about that car.....

It just got rebadged in the States.....
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Originally posted by jtanoyo1
You do know , that's a holden hsv made in australia right? There's nothing american about that car.....

It just got rebadged in the States.....
Gotta do your homework , dude, before you say there's nothing American in that car. The GTO's engine is a 350 HPCorvette LS-1 5.7L smoker.....the very same engine that goes into brand-new Vettes at Bowling Green and went into the Trans-Am and Camaro SS ( in 325 HP tune) before they were dropped.
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Originally posted by mmarshall
Gotta do your homework , dude, before you say there's nothing American in that car. The GTO's engine is a 350 HPCorvette LS-1 5.7L smoker.....the very same engine that goes into brand-new Vettes at Bowling Green and went into the Trans-Am and Camaro SS ( in 325 HP tune) before they were dropped.
LS1 and LS6 are made at the St. Catharines plant in Canada.

American?!? I guess you could call it that but I don't think that's what he meant.
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Originally posted by jtanoyo1
You do know , that's a holden hsv made in australia right? There's nothing american about that car.....

It just got rebadged in the States.....
True, but it is all under the GM flag.
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I like the way it looks. I bet that thing will smoke almost anything on the streets!
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