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Quoted from seeburg220:Agreed. Fomoco took a page out of the corporate GM book of shame. Take an iconic model name and slap it on a turd. See: GTO, Blazer, Malibu, Caprice.
The 04-06 GTO's were exactly what a GTO was intended to be from the start, a 2 door family car with the biggest engine they could muster.
Quoted from phil-lee:Wasn't the oil pan a quart and a half too small leading to overheating which caused fires? As I understand they had to shoe horn the engine install and use a tiny oil pan. This may have just been the earlier models.
It was the bog standard Iron duke in every FWD GM made then. Manuals were misprinted a quart low, and the engine was already an oil burner, so the early, early ones threw rods and spat oil over the catalytic converter, which was right behind the firewall instead of, say, under the seats like on a front engined car.
the fire thing was blown way out of proportion and the number of fires was super low compared to the production numbers.
Quoted from zombywoof:I’m sure there are many who would say this belongs on any list of coupe failures. With derisive nicknames like “dork” and “clown shoe”, it’s a natural; however, for the last two model years it packed the same S54 engine as the M3 of the period - but was much lighter. In my opinion, the Z3 M coupes are kind of cool and funky in their own right.
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Just like how you could get a Pacer with a V8 and denim interior, people are still making fun of it because it's a Pacer.
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