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i still prefer the new TA...

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High Performance Pontiac: 2007 Pontiac Trans Am Concept

2008 Pontiac Trans Am Concept

writer: Thomas A. DeMauro
illustrator: Kevin Morgan

UPDATE! Sources say the new GTO is a 2009 model and will be available in late 2008. Keep glued to the website for the latest info!

Deja vu 1974--gas prices are high and the GTO is once again cancelled for the following year. Buick-Pontiac-GMC General Manager John Larson broke the news to dealers in a video clip on Tuesday, February 21, 2006. He says the cancellation of the GTO is due to '07 airbag standards that cannot be met with the current car. We're sure it didn't hurt that the GTO sold only 15,728 units in 2004 and just 11,069 in 2005, while it was scheduled for production of 18,000 for those two years. The possible peripheral reasons are many--some cite a snubbing by the GTO faithful, others say it was too expensive, and still more lament the body styling. While we all can be Monday morning quarterbacks, the fact remains that Pontiac once again will be without a rear-drive V-8 performance car by 2007. But for how long? Just over a week after the cancellation notice, we seemingly got an answer.

General Motors Vice President for Global Product Development Bob Lutz stated during the Geneva motor show that a new GTO would arrive based on the new Camaro's and Holden Commodore's Zeta platform in late 2008, as reported by AutoWeek.
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here's a black one:

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shetuck;1086407; said:
i still prefer the new TA...

here's a black one:

conceptta-400.jpg
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I agree that the new KITT shoulda' been a Pontiac but the T/As just wouldn't look quite right for me.

I think a blacked out GTO (I know they just discontinued them) would work much better.

Now if they decide to do a remake of Smokey & The Bandit on the other hand...
 
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As far as recent remakes go; this one was closer to Bionic Woman (crap) than it was to Battlestar Galactica (phenomenal). Too much focus on the obvious, e.g. "Hey it's a talking super car," and not enough actual story development. The lead in to the possible series didn't offer any hope to that changing either.
 
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IronBuckI;1094842; said:
As far as recent remakes go; this one was closer to Bionic Woman (crap) than it was to Battlestar Galactica (phenomenal). Too much focus on the obvious, e.g. "Hey it's a talking super car," and not enough actual story development. The lead in to the possible series didn't offer any hope to that changing either.
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I wonder if Bionic Woman would have been better if it was on SciFi rather than letting NBC get their hands on it? They are pretty much screwing up everything they try to remake. Michelle Ryan is hot as balls.
Galactica never would have made it on network TV. SciFi even gave Flash Gordon 20 some episodes.
 
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