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history) it looked at its brand portfolio for a way to chop down its losses. Pontiac, Saab, Saturn, and Hummer got the axe (Oldsmobile committed brand suicide in 2004) while Buick remained. Pontiac had failed to be profitable for several years leading up to the brand's demise, due to heavy discounting, but the big clincher was Buick's rise in China. According to contemporaneous statistics from the Shanghai government, Buick had made up six out of every ten cars in Shanghai in 1930 and fond memories of the luxury brand remained steadfast. What's all that have to do with the GTO? The Chinese weren't buying Pontiacs, they were buying Buicks. The plan was that China
would buy hundreds of thousands of them, but as we now know, that train has come off the rails. Here in the U. S. , however, love for the GTO is still strong, and with the retro-mod movement on the rise, you never know when somebody else is going to rebody a new Camaro as a classic GTO, like the 6T9 Judge by the Trans Am Depot (above). What Launched the GTO Into Stardom?Helping to
launch the new Pontiac GTO in 1964 was a comparison test performed by Car & Driver magazine that was orchestrated by Pontiac PR man Jim Wangers. The GTO did surprisingly well against a Ferrari 250 GTO, mostly because Wangers had substituted the standard 389ci V-8 for a souped-up 421ci ringer engine, resulting in one of the fakest car magazine cover blurbs of all time: "Tempest GTO: 0-to-100 in 11.
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