Pontiac GTO WOW!!!!

Ok I for the first time saw a pontiac gto in my area i pulled up beside it and was wondering what it had under the hood i thought well cant be much well i was wrong. it has 350hp stock that is incredible i think and its a v8 non turbol. any of you race one of these yet? i would of gotten creamed by him but it would of been fun.

Its a fast car, but it sure comes up short in the looks department. It'll come close to hanging with a VR4 past the quarter mile marker.

what is the 1/4 mile for that car? or 0-60?

It's an LS1 engine...same in the camaro SS, corvettes, trans ams, etc...usually low-mid 13s in those cars, so I'm assuming the same for the GTO. I've driven one at work, but I didn't get to really race it around, but it was quick.

nice but only downfall for them is the body style and looks.

ya, i was horrified by the looks! truly doesn't do justice to the legacy of the GTO. looks more like an old person oldsmobile or a wanna-be-cool pontiac.

no it reminds me of a pu#$# toyota celica.

Hey now the GT4 was a sweet car.

haha, IMO it lookes like a grand am on steriods, I didn't really think much of em' when they came out, and I still don't really, but to each his own.

a stock pontiac GTO will make good race with a first gen stock and might actually pull it a little, a second gen will have a bit more advantage. Add a MBC and its all the VR-4.

muscle cars make me sick...

GTO's arent just the LS1, they are the corvette LS1, and 1/2 way through the 1st model year they because the LS1 with the LS6 block. There are rumors of a new TT GTO that will be showing up at SEMA, I cant wait.

GTO = POS, see them all the time here, can't believe they slapped that label on that oversized / overbeefed Cavalier. I thought the same about the Celica's, but then I read how in Japan the GT4 was pushing 265 HP stock, they just made it suck here. I love muscle cars, you can't match that off the line torque, but I love it even more when I see a TT 6 cylinder, beat the hell out of a muscle car that's running 11's. :bananasmi

haha toyota celicas are so weak man geez.

haha toyota celicas are so weak man geez.

tru the celica might be weak, but Toyota Engineering is at the top of its game! have you heard of the Lotus Elise? oh ya, its got the 1.8L celica engine, and that car is a beast...soo light and nimble, it could probably out-handle the VR4 in a course. and b/c its so light, acceleration is awesome. a few mods here and there, some forced induction, and it would be unstoppable.

so before you say celica's are weak, just remember that might be true, but toyota makes GOOD quality engines that LAST and can withstand tremendous abuse.

maybe so but thats only with that sports car. i see a bunch of celicas modded out but does it really make a big difference to compete with us? other then that celicas are still weak.

The GT4 and all track modles are pretty sweet.

they have sweet bodies but what about under the hood?

maybe so but thats only with that sports car. i see a bunch of celicas modded out but does it really make a big difference to compete with us? other then that celicas are still weak.


Yeah, but the elise is 40 grand new...less than the vr4 was...and the celica is what around 20 grand?...so in comparison, of course the celica can't hang with us, but the elise can...with the same engine...and it is much closer in price to our cars... The celica isn't meant to be a sports car...its a sporty coupe...

GTO = POS, see them all the time here, can't believe they slapped that label on that oversized / overbeefed Cavalier. I thought the same about the Celica's, but then I read how in Japan the GT4 was pushing 265 HP stock, they just made it suck here. I love muscle cars, you can't match that off the line torque, but I love it even more when I see a TT 6 cylinder, beat the hell out of a muscle car that's running 11's. :bananasmi

Do you run 11's? I can bet that most TT 6 cyl cars dont.



For everyone talking shit about the celica. Have you heard of the all track(?) turbo models?. You know, the ones that share the same engine with the Turbo MR2, and are AWD. Look them up sometime if you havent.

Dude I don't know wtf ur saying but the all trac turbo is the GT4..."look it up sometime", and why the hell are you asking me if I run 11's, all I said was I liked seeing a TT-6 beat a muscle car running 11's, is there a problem with that? wtf is ur problem?

my mistake on the gt4

The GT4 was the Japanese and I think also the European modle, all track was the American model and had a few less HP.

Thanks for the clarification.

yea i had a post about the new GTO awhile back i lost to it barley, it's a fast car but like everybody says it is ugly looks like a dodge stratus if u ask me oh and another thing i wrote about it was the sound the exhaust dosent sound like a v8 should sound compared to the camaro and firebird