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Originally Posted by Blacdout96
Nah, I don't get it, If you want to believe that by reading Wiki, and listening to other people say that because they hump the leg of GM and believe anything they say, sure, but I highly doubt that Pontiac would spend a couple million on a car, then rebadge it as one of the greatest namesakes from Pontiac, only to offer it for three years, especially the way they adapted things like LS2, dual exhaust, restyled hood, so rapidly. To me that looks like Pontiac tried to appease the buyers to try and help sales, but it was no use because the price didnt help selling it.
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Whoa there big fella.
Humping the leg of GM has nothing to do with the fact that the VZ platform, the one that the GTO was built on, was dead after 2006.
Pontiac didnt spend a DIME on the car outside of the updated crash standards.
They announced it AT THE BEGNINING that the GTO would only be a 3 year run model, at an expected 15k units ayear.
The LS2, dual exhaust, and restyled hood was all carried over from the Holden Monaro. Holden updates thier cars very regularly to make sure they are #1.
If you want to get technical, the 2004 GTO is on VY. The 2005 and 2006 are on VZ.
The G8 is on an all new from the ground up RWD platform and shares very little with the older VZ platform.
There is no more Monaro, so there was no more GTO.
You are wrong, you have been informed, now keep your mouth shut.
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It's called testing the consumers, if its a hit, they will continue to build it. They werent going to import tons of them over, just to have them sit in lots, especially since it got mixed reviews. The magazines raved about it, but the consumer was wishy washy about it. I've seen a few cars that were only supposed to be built for a period of time, or a certain amount built, but since there was a demand, they continued to build for a little longer until they finally said they really had to stop producing. I've also seen cars taht were supposed to be a mainstay car, but the public didnt buy and was cut early. If you think GM really was only going to produce for three years and close the doors, specially since they were looking to fill that affordable sports car slot the Firebird/ Camaro had, then I got some magic beans for you to buy as well.
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The GTO was never supposed to really fill in the shoes of the Firebird, but give Firebird and other Pontiac owners a change to own a higher class car, offering a world class sports coupe with a powerplant that is a staple of GM Performance,.
The Public was wishy-washy because it had 3 letters on it. And by public, I mean 50 year old cry babies and 20 year old dbags who think/thought the GTO was some sort of mythical beast when it was in fact the equivalent to a Grand Am with hood scoops.
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What I believe they ment to say was the initial build was to be for three years at a rate of 18,000 units per year, and if it was deemed profitable ( they sold well) they would recontract to continue to build after 2006. Get it?
Like I said, I highly doubt they would look into putting R&D money into a right hand drive car that needed to be converted into let hand drive and to make it legal for the U.S., which is actually not as easy as it may seem, and use the GTO namesake, the definition of the begining of the Musclecar age, change the car rapidly after the first year including the engine, and bodywork, just to shut the doors after three years. 
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IT WAS ALREADY PAID FOR!!
****s sake man, read something! Holden makes probably more LHD cars then RHD, and they sure as hell dont go to America!! Middle East, Mainland Europe, and other parts of the world that have LHD and worship these cars.
You could not be any farther from the truth.
There were talks of bringing back the Monaro on the VE platform, giving the Commodore a coupe variant, but with the economic fall out, and GM already pouring money into another coupe version, add on to the fact that Pontiac was going to die (it was supposed to be phased out by 2014, but Chap11 forced thier hand), they decided to no move foward with the Monaro.
The doors were never shut. It was built along the same line as every other Monaro and Monaro variant that was sold globally.
The VZ platform was dead. Holden was bringing thier new chassis in. There was no plans for a coupe. In fact, the VY/VZ chassis wasnt designed to be a coupe either till they displayed a coupe concept in 97 I belive.
And to tie it all together, the VY chassis, the one that sits under the GTO, was supposed to be the base for the 2003 Camaro and Firebird, but because of low sales and low demand, not to mention "not designed here" mentality, they canned the car.
Thank you, and have a nice day.