I don’t believe that the weak sales of the GTO were in any way attributable to the fact that it was a rebadged Holden. The 2004 was pretty bland by most standards, the scoops helped a lot. I think the biggest problem was the price and drivetrain. It is not surprising that a car with only a 400 HP 6.0L V8 engine didn’t fly off the lots. Everyone on this board does not think this way, but the majority of Americans like to look at these cars but think owning something like this is frivolous and an impractical waste of money. A V6 powered car with a reasonable amount of power would actually appeal to the masses more, as unbelievable as it seems to us. The sales of V6 Mustangs, Camaros, Firebirds, Chargers, 300C's, Magnums and soon to be Challengers SERIOUSLY outweighs the 300+ Horse V8 versions and the 425 Horse SRT/SVT/Shelby models are about as rare as Ebola. Love the SRT's, SS's, and WS6's buy the $20K base model cause you have no gonads and that’s all the wife will allow or its all you can afford. Think of it like this, how many Chargers do you seriously think would be on the road right now if the ONLY drivetrain was the SRT8? In addition a $32K car, no matter how good a performance deal it is, is still out of reach for a huge percentage of Americans. With a few thousand dollars down a $32,000 car is a $600 a month car payment, not to mention the insurance rates. The Holden Grand Prix presented will offer 2 - V6 choices and a V8. Keep the Holden design and build quality, offer the sheeple V6 for all the posers and stuff a V8 in for the increasingly rare driving enthusiast and I think that car will sell like the Mustang and Charger. Something GM and Pontiac desperately need right now. I don’t see where GM has a bad taste in its mouth from the Holden GTO. Before the public even had a chance to buy one, GM already set production to a microscopic 15K/year. That shows they knew full well this was going to be a very limited enthusiast only seller.