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Originally Posted by SteveR
I like the motor and the interior is awesome, but Pontiac has been using that cliche split upper black grill for what 30 years now? That's rediculous. Right now every single Pontiac car has it. If Pontiac wants to stay in business, they need to fire the entire design team and start fresh. I was watching some show on the making of the new GTOs and someone asked that question, "with all the possibilities with designing the new GTO, why did they settle on that look?" The answer from Pontaic was shocking, "because that's all we could do." All they could do? With all of the endless possibilities they settled on a 30 year old design, not just for that car, but for every single one.
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actually they didn't have much control at all. It's a rebadged holden monaro and it's a basically trial run - what do you want? It wasn't a design from the ground up, so there was far from endless possibilities. They were given this:
and told to make it look like a pontiac. Can you blame them for going with the "standard pontiac" front end? Compare that car with a gto, you'll see other than the nose there's pretty much nothing different on the exterior.
yeah i'm bored with all the pontiacs looking the same too, but as far as the gto is concerned, I think it came out great. The fact of the matter is, the less control pontiac had, the less they could screw it up. That's why the interior is nice, and the lines of the exterior are clean and not gaudy. I'd much rather what a lot of people refer to as boring and cookie cutter than something with 4000 hood scoops and an interior that shares 90% of it's materials with toddler's toys. With the exception of the look of the car from the front, the gto is nothing like my 2000 grand prix gtp, and that's a really good thing. And honestly, I wasn't sold on it until i sat it in and drove it either. I never hated the styling from the get go, but i wasn't excited about it, that's for sure.
Of course i'm biased, I own an 04 gto. But I can honestly say it is really the only brand new gm car right now i'd even want in it's price range or lower.