Ls2 GTO's are dogs..

RICAKILLA · 04-22-2007, 04:22 AM

Finally got to run against an 05' GTO.. Unfortunatly, or fortunatly for me anyways, the driver of the goat never raced with a manual so i literally smoked him everytime....So far i am not impressed with them heh..

ohnoesaz · 04-22-2007, 04:32 AM

Its about more than speed.

Oh wait they're horribly ugly too.

Arwing · 04-22-2007, 04:34 AM

But, dude......It's a Pontiac.

Ashes06GTO · 04-22-2007, 04:57 AM

You should say you are not impressed with the driver. I know a guy that will show you what a bone stock one can do

*cough* me *cough*

Caution · 04-22-2007, 05:20 AM

Ashes -- I have been asking you for weeeeks now.... bring the Goat out with us one day and I'm sure that you'll get some races in

... I know that Stang Skel, Daboss, & Sleeper would love to see what the goat has.

Norse1974 · 04-22-2007, 10:31 AM

[quote]ORIGINAL: Ashes06GTO

You should say you are not impressed with the driver. I know a guy that will show you what a bone stock one can do

+1 on that!Yes,the LS2 GTO is hard to get off the line which nets alot of wins for S197 drivers but properly driven the GTO is hard to beat!Unless,,,the S197 is modded(see sig LOL!).And yes I would agree they are not that great to look at.Its not retro at all like the stang is and for them to slap that Grand prix with a GTO badge is wrong IMO.

StantheMan · 04-22-2007, 11:05 AM

The goats are extremely ugly, they threw a Corvette engine in some available body. They didn't engineer the car and just grabed an available chasis off the shelf and gave it the legendary name. Chrysler has done the same thing with their Charger, I don't care, a muscle car does not come with four doors, even if it's got a Hemi. I had a 69 Charger, at one time Chrysler Corp made an economy car with the Charger name now they have given the Charger name to the luxury chasis of the Chrysler 300. Ford at least redesigned the Stang to look like a modern muscle car. GM just threw out a muscle car name on an available chasis trying to catch on to the retro muscle car craze. The GTO is BUTT ugly, it may slightly faster than a regular Stang, but the Stang is the complete package, not just a POS with a great engine.

Thurman · 04-22-2007, 11:37 AM

Moses, you will never get ashes out to play, because his mommy won't let him play with the big boys. hahaha

Simon1 · 04-22-2007, 11:44 AM

Are the LS2's the 400 hp versions? I raced a guy at the track twonights ago, he seemed sure he was going to hit 12's. I told him be patient. He ended up with a high 13 run.

RICAKILLA · 04-22-2007, 02:46 PM

Yeah it was mainly the driver, we gonna be working on hisl launch next weekend, he should be able to keep up by then

As for looks..Yeah....WTF was GM thinking......They did good with the new Camero but geezus! Why tarnish the GTO name liek they did??