Pontiac Gto

2010 Pontiac – Will it be Firebird or GTO?

Jim Hopson from Pontiac communications called Car and Driver (driver.com www.carand) on what was more like a choice between a Firebird and a GTO on the 2010 Pontiac.

By 2010 Pontiac almost certain to get at least one car of muscles productive rear-drive Zeta platform (Global Rear Wheel Drive Architecture), though still unconfirmed up to now.

The first Pontiac product under Zeta is the 2008 G8 sedan which will replace the Bonneville and the current Grand Prix in early 2008. The G8 will be brought from Australia, where Australians conceptualized the RWD family.

Hopson confirmed the second Zeta Kicking Pontiac has been around "heritage" names, including Firebird and GTO, a car for high performance future. Journalists at the Car and Driver suspected Pontiac is leaning toward the GTO. While this may be the case, it is possible that the 2010 Pontiac will be equipped with Hurst shifters as the products of the Hurst Performance Inc. have been included in the Pontiac GTO? Well, we will see.

Bob Lutz, GM product guru amended said that the days of sharing the product and badge engineering are somehow over and said emphatically that no Camaro prototype will make in all other GM brand showroom.

Hopson said the problem is making a new muscle car distinctive enough to separate the comfort Lutz and the market as a whole without being "very" unique.

The "Heritage" give the names of 50 percent risk and 50 percent opportunity. This challenge highlights the double-edged sword of reviving heritage names, which must be competitive and relevant today while meeting expectations of performance, the character and appearance. Hopson said they are very cautious about bringing the heritage of names because of the fight Pontiac to convince buyers that the Australian built Holden Monaro-based 2004-06 GTO was, in fact, worthy of its name smoothed.

According to Hopson, if is meaningful in that time to sell two muscle cars under the auspices of the same brand, or even three under two brands is still a question. But he added that is an extraordinary opportunity that we would see two small cups of performance.

As for Hopson, he would choose a GTO because he said Firebird and Camaro be expected to be extraordinarily similar, and they could do more with GTO.

Under the skin of the future of Pontiac muscle car would certainly share both engines of the upcoming G8 sedan, including a 261-hp, 3.6-liter DOHC V-6 and 362 hp LS2 6.0-liter V-8 pushrod, offered five-and six – Automatic speed, respectively, with available six-speed manuals (the G8 Autobox only). Like most big V-8 GM, the 6.0-liter cylinder deactivation would or "active fuel management," as GM now refers to this technology.

But whatever form it may eventually take and whatever name will be assigned to it, Zeta-based Pontiac muscle car will certainly get prominent placement in its showrooms American dealers, who are increasingly mixed with Buick and GMC brands when it arrives. Which has no sports cars or muscle cars of its own.

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Evander Klum is a Business Administration graduate who hails from Alabama. He enjoys extreme sports and he is also a car racing fanatic. At present, he works as a marketing manager at an advertising agency in Cleveland.

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