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2006 Pontiac GTO Coupe – The Pontiac GTO may be one of the most famous American muscle cars of them all, but it has a name borrowed from a Ferrari and in 2004 was resurrected in large part thanks to the Australians. In the land down under, GM subsidiary Holden had since the early 2000s been building the Monaro, which was a rear-wheel drive coupe powered by a 5.7-liter LS V-8 engine from the C5 Corvette. This car was also imported to the UK as the Vauxhall Monaro. While at GM, executive Bob Lutz had driven one of the Monaros in Australia. Thoroughly impressed, he became convinced that an American version of the car could do well, and so the new GTO was born. While other modern muscle cars looked like updates of cars from the ‘60s, the GTO took a different approach. It was like a four-seater Corvette dressed up to look like something an accountant would drive, but that was always one of the coolest things about it. It wasn’t at all an in-your-face car to show off with. It just let the performance do the talking.