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You've picked up on the Aussie traits for a V8. Wife has to be able to do the school run in it. You can do the office commute in it. You can do the trip from Melbourne to Adelaide or Sydney in it and once in a while, you take the longer twisty road home in it. Yeah its a muscle car, if you aren't fixated on a drag strip, but on a car that does everything you want and you really don't have to compromise to do it, then this car delivers. Heck in Australia, if you found a coupe a hassle, you got the ute, the crew cab ute, the wagon or the four door sedan. There was V8 options for all of them. They all went fast, just pick your weapon of choice, or get a V8 Ford Falcon. A car that goes fast in a staight line - yeah thats fun for five minutes, but compromises make it shit to live with. The Commodore and Falcon were engineered to still do their core duties as a family car, not find a corner impossible to negotiate and put a smile on your face doing it. Its what an American muscle car would be if it had grown up and completed college.

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I was just there a couple of times earlier today. My mom lives up behind Anderson R/C.

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I bought one too and all I do is work on it everything they put on it is wrong so I'm redoing the whole car

The wheel base is too damn long

The 05 was my first car! I loved it! Will always hold a special place in my heart!

I didn't like the 04 with the single side exhaust and flat hood as much as the 06 (didn't like the 05 tail lights) when it was in production. Today? It was near Toyota quality body gaps and LS motors. Love it.

And that’s why General Motors was so wrong in closing down Holden. Australia, Holden and Ford built some very good cars. What a shame it’s all gone. I still drive a Holden Commodore SV6 and a Ford Falcon XR6. Great cars.

It has the heart and soul of the GTO. In the 60s the Goat was a rebadged tempest and lemans with a bigger engine. That is the essence of 60s muscle cars, big engine in regular cars!!

I'm have an 06 and I have about 55000 on it. And it's been a great car. Only have one issue with it with the water pump. Leaking new, you know, 06 no longer has the problem with the gas line going over the engine in the leakings they took care of that. And quite frankly, it's a fun car to drive and it's an automatic, so my wife can drive it when she needs to and love the thing it can be anything you want it to be if you want to make it fast as hell you can do that? You wanna leave it stock? You can do that. You wanna just go like 500 horsepower and stick with that? It works good too. It's. One of the most practical cars on the road when it comes to all around good performance Drive a Honda CRV is my everyday driver for gas mileage and practicality. And you don't see a lot of them on the road. So it's kind of nice not to have something. that everybody else doesn't as In mustangs

Down here in NZ they are called a holden Monaro, geat cars and very popular. Don't understand why they didn't sell well over there.

I love Holdens. I have had a '13 PPV, '16 SS and an '04 GTO. I have noticed there are a lot of people who try to turn them into race cars or 1/4 mile cars and they end up ruining them. Not to say that it's a horrible thing to put a stroker, heads, cam, headers, ect on a GTO, more power and a few upgrades like shifter, clutch, driveshaft, 6.0 rear diff, strengthened cv shafts. But it seems horrible when they strip the interiors, do solid axle swaps, cages, crazy suspensions and so on. It just takes away the best part of the car. It's supposed to be a comfortable, unassuming looking(to avoid police attention), smooth, roomy, practical car, that has a mean V8 and rwd. I look at it as being very much a modern equivalent of what a '68-'72 GM A body Chevelle or GTO was in it's day. I see it as a car that you want to put miles on and so long as it's not wrecked or rusty, you can keep refreshing the engine, trans and running gear over and over again and keep using it instead of buying an overly sophisticated newer car. These GTOs are in the sweet spot of tech where they get decent fuel economy, certainly for the power they make, produce good hp/L numbers, are relatively high revving and are capable of running for 200-300k on an original engine if they are well cared for and with a little luck. I don't want my "muscle car" to be too flashy, I like that only car guys know what they are, I got away with driving very fast for years without a single ticket in my Holdens, driving the same way with a 2010 and 2011 Mustang GTs, I got 4 tickets in that same time and the cars were terrible for long trips and bad weather and rough roads in comparison to the Holdens. I think the GTOs were a sales failure because they began as $33k in 2004 money, the dealers were dickish about test drives, they were marking them up, then suddenly the Magnum R/T, 300C and 2005 Mustang debuted, then the 2005 GTOs showed up next o the unsold 2004s, then they finally discounted them to the price they should have been all along, certainly if they would have tooled up a factory to build them in North America, that could have build the Camaro5 and later G8s, PPVs and SSs. They could have a offered lower spec cars in higher volumes for less money and sold way way more of them, along with two length sedans, El Camino and wagon. What a missed opportunity.

that thing is hideous , no wonder it didn't sell well

Still got and maintain my 2005 GTO w/Autocross appearance to this day. Love it and will never part with it. Looks right at home w the other cars.

I'd leave the leaf in the back seat 🤷

I owned an 04 GTO for 6 years and it was truly one of my favorite cars of many that I've owned. A couple of things though. The interior was definitely NOT typical '00 GM. I've owned more than a few other GM cars from that era (Pontiacs included) and they all had way cheaper plastics with terrible gaps and dinky looking switchgear. The Holden styling department did a much nicer job from the cushy seats to the gauges to the BLAUPUNKT stereo. As far as its mission, I agree, it is a GT car. But what is a GT car? It's more or less a modern take on the muscle car with a little more luxury baked in. This is always how I saw this car..a sort of cross between an M3 and a Trans Am. The Pontiac marketing at the time was too focused on the GTO heritage (which I get..thats a lot of cache), but it didn't speak to what this car really was; a poor man's Euro GT fighter. Yes, it could take on Mustang GT's and Dodge Chargers, but its appeal was more international.

It’s a cv8 Holden Monaro. The GTO and GTS Monaro were a different kettle.. the GTS had the stroked call away motors.. you guys just got the stock as a rock bare bones monaros we didn’t want

I’m Australian. They are a Holden Monaro. The front bumper and bonnet you Americans have look atrocious 😳. Keep it original.

High quality video, makes me fall in love with mine more! Paid $1k for my 04 and $6700 for my 06, but thankfully it only has 75k miles

i am a owner of a 1.8 zetec blacktop focus mk1, and i love it to bits, mine was super reliable, lets hope it stays that way

I owned a 2005 GTO it was a quick car

Great video! I bought mine brand new in 2006 and its still in my garage being used in the summer and I still love it! To me its a Monaro, not a GTO. Great touring car with plenty of power even to this day.

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I just bought a stock 2 owner 2005 with 42k miles, I think this will be a fun car. Not any seat time yet, but comments and video are encouraging.

Better than my 99 accord v6

I saw one in 2012 and it was an old man driving it. The loap that that car made me fall in love with it. I thought he had work done to it and always watched as he would drive through the parking lot. Today I saw one and it sounded just like the old man's and I had to look it up. I mean the odds of 2 GTOs being fixed up like this and they sounded pretty much the same. So I am assuming now that I missed out on one hell of a buy. I really think this was Pontiacs hope of saving the car brand. Unfortunately I don't think it did.

I love my '04. 26MPG on the highway, easy..and plenty of power to put a smile on your face. Ignoring some cheap plastic parts for the interior, it's pretty comfortable as well.

i live the uk a have monaro vxr its the secound one i have owned i just love it , also had a new mustang but it to unpredictable not like the monaro.

Should I buy a GTO? Did I? Yes, yes I did…

I owned a 05,6.0,6 Speed. It was the smoothest car I ever owned,it was a blast, was almost new when I owned it, divorce forced selling it. I got 26 Hwy , but it was very low miles, almost new

Try being the original owner of this beautiful machine. It’s the best cap secret GM has ever produced out of Holding Australia. People dismiss the European design, not realizing BMW designers, had their hands in the final design of this GTO. It’s unfortunate that the faster variance of these GTO‘s never made it to the United States Shores. There was one particular Holden called the VXR 500 with a supercharge 6.0L V8, with a specially tuned T56 and rear end. Not to mention the all-wheel-drive coupe 4. You did an excellent job on this video. Very good execution.

hows that maverick working out? sounds like you found a great machine shop. sold my svtf in february, fun times cheers

I had a 2004, which had a bit less power and less sexy exhaust pipes. It was a great car with a few gigantic flaws. No trunk, no side airbags, and tires that were too narrow for the power the car made. But I loved it dearly.

The original GTO was a muscle car, the later GTO was a pony car. I personally love the 2004 and 2005-06 GTO.

Have driven mine (an 05) coast to coast. Great road trip car. I'm always getting compliments on it. Great value for the money and it's definitely not slow.

I have to disagree that Pontiac was "following a trend", it wasn't until a year later that Mustang started the whole traditional looking muscle car tribute trend, and the fact that GM didn't start the trend with the Pontiac GTO in 2004 is just a moronic crying shame. Literally had everything...the brand, the model, the intention of bringing back the original muscle car and the engines to back it up, but not the intelligence to make it look like a muscle car. 😔

I own a 04 GTO and love it. I bought it used and put over 200k miles on it, still a great car. I would own another GTO in a heartbeat.

Love all my Pontiacs

My ‘06 taught me to drift but it had more problems than Joe and Hunter

Looks like nothing but a rebadged Holden Monaro from Australia mate (there for not a real true Pontiac unlike the original GTOs from the 1960s).

I always wanted a GTO but people are asking ridiculous prices for the clean well kept one.

My dad has on 06. Let's just say... I need to have one now. I am always excited, happy, and gleeful to see and hear our Goat roar to life and hit the road. The Goat, to me, is the Toothless of cars. There to have a good time and be happy.

I want a c4 vette but I also want to pick one of these as well

Love my 06. Not salvage title only because I bought it 10 years ago from the original owner. Yes it's had it's share of issues, but get it out on an open road and put your foot down and just feel the smile come across your face. And yeah, I've gotten my share of boomers going "That's not a real GTO, how can they put a GTO badge on that" etc etc. What was the original GTO anyway? A normal car with a big V8 and some body tweaks. Seems to me the new one is exactly that...

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Just bought one literally my dream car

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