While Pontiac was an American company through-and-through, the fifth-gen GTO actually carried quite a lot of DNA from the Holden Monaro, a muscle car produced by GM's Australian subsidiary.

Bob Lutz was one of the forces behind bringing the Holden Monaro to the United States, as the ill-fated Pontiac GTO in 2004. And while that car received critical acclaim, it was a sales ...

Of course, the Pontiac GTO became famous for other reasons ... the fabled Super Duty 455 engine that never was, or the fifth-generation captive import – which was actually the third-generation ...

and official Pontiac literature to determine the rarest known Pontiac GTO models ever. We omitted the fifth-generation Pontiac GTO from our list due to conflicting rarity metrics and focused ...

However, with the muscle car formula dying -- a segment that Pontiac is credited for inventing with the legendary GTO in 1964 ...

The Pontiac GTO and Holden Monaro are going away, with the future of both models being somewhat unknown. Speaking in Australia, Bob Lutz says that "it's in the process of being figured out ...