GTO What did it really mean, anyway? Gran Turismo Omologato. That was the Italian phrase the initials stood for. But most people, even at Pontiac, never mastered the entire phrase. So what was the big ...

Pontiac produced close to 97,000 GTOs for the model year 1966, and needless to say, the hardtop was the most common choice. It accounted for over 73,700 GTOs built this year, followed at a huge ...

In the beginning, muscle was measured by sheer displacement. Detroit’s golden age hadn’t yet found its shape, but the air in the early 1960s was thick with rebellion. Before Pontiac’s GTO broke the ...

The Pontiac GTO arrived in the mid‑1960s as a blunt instrument of speed, but by the end of the decade the GTO Judge was ...

Prior to its demise in 2010, Pontiac was responsible for some of the best American cars on the market. The brand made the absolutely legendary Firebird. It was a Firebird with a Trans Am performance ...

Conceived in early 1963 by Pontiac’s John Z. DeLorean, Bill Collins, and Russ Gee, the Pontiac GTO was a factory hot rod born by replacing the standard 326 cubic-inch V8 in the mid-size Pontiac ...

The Pontiac GTO first appeared in 1964 as an option package for the LeMans. It didn't take long, though, for the name to catch on, and the GTO quickly became a legendary part of muscle car history.

Back in 1965, Pontiac’s advertising executive Jim Wangers teamed up with Royal Pontiac, George Hurst and Petersen Publishing to boost the sales of performance parts and the GTO. It resulted in a ...

Here’s the brutal truth: one of the mean machines that made Marvel’s The Punisher pop off the screen is up for grabs. RM Sotheby’s just dropped the listing for a surviving 1968 Pontiac GTO stunt ride ...