The new high performance version of the G8 would be more aptly called GTO than the Monaro, simply because the GTO was simply a high performance version of the Tempest line. The sales of the Tempest served to supplement the gearheads buying the GTO. It's a simple premise, used by Pontiac and others after the original Goat came out. Look at the Mustang, most of it's sales in the past 15-years have been base models with v6's.
I predicted on this site that the new Goat would fail just because it didn't have a base consumer model or the higher sales from it to bring down the unit cost. I think I was proven right and really hope that Pontiac gets it right with the G8. And, I think it would be proper for them to call their high performance model a GTO, don't you?
Rich
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