Yahoo Autos The 2006 Pontiac GTO Is the Perfect Used Performance Car Everyone Forgets
Pontiac's mid-2000s revival of the GTO was, sadly, a failure. GM brought the great Australian-built Holden Monaro into the U.S. and badged it as a GTO, but it never caught on with the public. The upside to this is that 2004-2006 models are now one of the best relatively affordable used car finds for enthusiasts.
As The Smoking Tire's Matt Farah finds out in his latest video, the GTO is a perfectly well rounded car. It's a comfortable cruiser that you can easily autocross, take to the drag strip, or even a road course. Thanks to its LS2 V8 (LS1 in the 2004 models) and Tremec T56 gearbox, you can tune a GTO to put down some serious horsepower too.
Sure, the revived GTO might not have had the presence of the original, but look beyond that and you'll find an excellent car. With prices averaging around $18,000 for used, LS2-powered examples, it might be one of the best used car deals out there.
