The most obvious answer I can think of is the same reason the 25-year import law exists in the first place: someone doesn’t want you importing a “better” option. My guess in this case is companies with skin in the side-by-side game. Why waste stupid money on one of those when you can get a kei truck that’s considered…

That said, you’d have the same problem I experienced with my GTO: yeah, there’s thousands of them in existence but the vast bulk of the cheap bespoke parts are in junkyards literally an ocean away.

Someone just discovered Mentour Pilot’s Youtube channel, I see.

Here in PA, I’ve got rail trails that can get me to the office with worrying about getting smooshed by some twat but the route is such an out and back (to the connector) that’s it’s an hour ride one way. Or I could risk the streets and be there in about half that time. That said, I can legit ride to Philadelphia from…

But why the sudden desire to hold onto our cars for longer?

Technically the entire concept of motorcycles shouldn’t be allowed near the FMVSS but here we are.

It also had too many doors.

I dunno, a chrome-out “jet-engined” coupe that hoovers up dino-goo is peak Pax Americana, which is pretty much the “Great” they wanna make America “Again.” Given some of the (admittedly creative) flags the cultists fly around here, I’m half surprised there isn’t one with an image of our favorite homeboy driving one.

Funny thing: I traded my GTP in for a GTO.

Dodge was essentially doing it for years with the AWD Chargers for a reasonable cost. The market was there.  If GM hadn’t essentially abandoned the sedan market, they could’ve done so as well.

Great concept cars, yes, but are they really obscure? I’d argue they’re the exact opposite.

This thing.

“Taylor at Two Brothers”

They branch out from motorcycle exhausts, or just a happy coincidence?

It’s cool, unless you knew the MOC that was submitted to Ideas that ultimately served as the inspiration. Way too much lost from initial design to production, even if the other monsters are welcome touches.

Interesting that Hemmings chose to republish this review of the 2004 model online back in 2018, right when GTO prices more or less bottomed out. I guess it was from their old print mag, given contextual clues in the article. Having owned an ‘04 from new to its death almost fifteen years later, I don’t see a foot…

I aways disliked the Cavlier comparison.  Now, if you said they were the E63 6er’s non-moustachio’d cousin from Down-Under. . . 100% yes.  Or maybe the other way around, as Matilda beat the Z9 by a year.

Had an ‘04, aka the one with the slick hood that made all the Boom-Booms sad. Dump that ridiculous wing and you end up with something that looked like “an car” at a distance but purposeful up close.

I understand that market on these things is a little loopy, but no. A quick search on Cargurus gave me several hits within a morning’s drive with prices of roughly 20-25K with most having significantly less than half mileage.

Somehow the Olds diesel didn’t make the cut?

Seriously. No Monaro/GTO or first-gen CTS-V?

True, this is definitely a “I’m too lazy to make my own breakfast today and I don’t want McDonald’s or Dunkin.” This morning, any of these would’ve godsend had one of them been were near me as I’m in the middle of some kitchen renovations and don’t feel like vacuuming all the wood dust and plaster off the stove.