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GT6 Why was the GT6 killed off?
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IMO, if its aint called a GT6, it aint a GT6. Otherwise you may as well say the 240Z is a GT6. Id be happy with a BMW GT6, but considering the price, and the fact that they would never ever call it that, they would need to resurrect the triumph name plate
So thats the spitfire reborn?
Actually I was told that someone from BMW started working for Pontiac, and brought the kidney grills with him. Since car manufactures decided that their vehicles must share similiar traits, and create sort of an image of what the brand was. This is why the front bumper of a cheap dodge neon, looks similiar to an expensive dodge viper. There was one year where all the suburus had similar bumpers, which only looked good on one vehicle, making everything else, including the STI, look hideous.
swift6 said:They already make a version like that too.
So thats the spitfire reborn?
AngliaGT said:
Actually I was told that someone from BMW started working for Pontiac, and brought the kidney grills with him. Since car manufactures decided that their vehicles must share similiar traits, and create sort of an image of what the brand was. This is why the front bumper of a cheap dodge neon, looks similiar to an expensive dodge viper. There was one year where all the suburus had similar bumpers, which only looked good on one vehicle, making everything else, including the STI, look hideous.
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I think that the answer to the original question was that the GT6 was pretty much out-dated by the time production finished. The TR7 was just about to start production, so the sports coupe line could continue.
As a classic car I think the GT6 is fantastic. If only they made it in a larger size!
As a classic car I think the GT6 is fantastic. If only they made it in a larger size!
swift6
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UmmYeahOk said:swift6 said:
So thats the spitfire reborn?
More like a Spit6 since it has a 6 cylinder.
UmmYeahOk said:
BMW first started using the "twin kidney" grill in 1933. The earliest Pontiac started using anything like it was about 30 years later and it wasn't until the more modern era that the Pontiac grilles had shrunk to the size to look even more like the BMW grills, when Pontiac was actually trying to directly compete with BMW. Early 60's Pontiacs did have split grills, but they were huge and they shrunk from there. But I doubt they came from a BMW employee. Although it wouldn't be a big stretch to copy a theme, Pontiac did the same thing with "GTO" afterall.
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UmmYeahOk said:
Hm.... ....thats a bit of a stretch. I would say the 90s was when the grill really took off, but to be honest, they should of just left it alone:
They may be long and horizontal but that is still a twin grill design on the convertible GT0. This was when Pontiac was pushing the whole "wider is better" advertising slogan for the first time it accentuates the wider part. The GTO comment about Pontiac is dealing with a whole other car and a whole other "lifting" of an idea from a car where it meant something to a marketing idea on the Pontiac.
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Âtdskip said:UmmYeahOk said:Â
The 90s trans am didnt have kidneys, why did the GTO?
That is a AUS market Holden.
Nobody knows how to make American muscle except the Aussies
Âswift6 said:UmmYeahOk said:Â
Hm.... ....thats a bit of a stretch. I would say the 90s was when the grill really took off, but to be honest, they should of just left it alone:
They may be long and horizontal but that is still a twin grill design on the convertible GT0. This was when Pontiac was pushing the whole "wider is better" advertising slogan for the first time it accentuates the wider part. The GTO comment about Pontiac is dealing with a whole other car and a whole other "lifting" of an idea from a car where it meant something to a marketing idea on the Pontiac.
While they did create a two sectional grill, I don't consider it copying BMW. At the time BMW really wasn't heard much. What I see the grill as, is a version of every domestic muscle car at the time. Mustang, camaro, charger, challenger, you name it, they had HUGE WIDE grills. All Pontiac did was divide the massive area with a tiny bit of styling. Honestly though, if you take the kidneys out of an 80s or 70s BMW you have the same grille as the 60s/70s domestics
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Just pointing out why people might believe that. Especially with Pontiac unapologetically taking marketing ideas from other Europeans automakers in the mid 60's. BMW's may not have been known in every household, but they were definitely known of in Automotive circles and by those that read any sort of sport car oriented automotive magazine.