“The drive is rough. Loud, hard, and uncomfortable. An overall terrible car to drive…” Meet Shane Whalley, the owner, builder, and driver of the rough and tumble ’06 GTO drift car you see before you.

This is the true story of an Australian car turned into an American car, turned back into an Australian car and then modified to look like a European car with a little Asian flavor and a ton of ...

Talk about hard acts to follow. Launched in 1964, the original GTO was a can't-miss proposition—a stripped-down, muscled-up exemplar of American exceptionalism that outdueled Ferrari in the buff books ...

When the new GTO was introduced in model year 2004, many classic Goat owners scoffed at the idea that Pontiac put its beloved designation on what a few called a "hopped up Cavalier" from Australia.

The 2004 Pontiac GTO arrived with a legendary badge and a very different face, and that mismatch between name and appearance left a lot of buyers scratching their heads. Underneath the understated ...