well...i decided to see what's hot about the new GTO. I hopped on over to Autoway Pontiac on US19 in clearwater to test one out. It was a beautiful red one with 6 spd, and black leather seats. Now, personally, I looove the way the car looks in person. No magazine picture i have ever seen will ever compare to the car in real life. It's simply hot. Maybe it was just the car i got, maybe it's defective, i don't know, but that car was the biggest piece once you got behind the wheel.

Basic specs....

1100 miles on the odo (so yes, this car was supposedly broken in, or at least beyond the point of too fucked to care anymore)
The $7900 19 inch rim package...Yes that's right, $8k for some 2 piece chrome rims that look like SHIT IMO.
All other standard options
6 spd
vette engine, blah blah

Cons:
Sales guy drove it off the lot. Goes through 1st, doesn't even slam into 2nd and i hear BAM from the back of the car, and get a nice jolt through the seat. The guy turns and says, yah, that was a backfire, happens occasionally.

Salesman floors it through second, all of the sudden the A/C gets hot as hell and doesn't come back on till we stop the car at a light. He turns to me and says, 'i guess that's just an added plus, you don't want the a/c on when youre flooring it, so it automatically turns it off'.

I get in the car and drive it....i push the storage panel under the radio to open it up. Motherfucking clip breaks off and the storage door wont close.

$40,000 with no options other than gaudy looking rims

Pros:

it's quick, and it sounds mean.
Cool body style

Other than that, in my opinion this car is a $40,000 piece of trash.

In a 20 mile test drive i managed to break the door to the stoarge thing under the radio, get 110 degree air blown in my face, and get to hear possibly the worst drivetrain noise a new car could make.