Sorry, inobetter

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The GTO isn't going away after all.

By the way, I feel about the current "MG" the way you do about the "GTO". MGs are supposed to be small, buzzy, fun, not-too-expensive, and eccentrically English. MG as supercar is like casting Donald Trump in Bogart's role in Casablanca.

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[gths.livejournal.com]

Hmm. The last Monaro was displayed during the Melbourne motor show and sold for about $A190,000 at auction, proceeds going to charity.

I gather the GTO came about as a result of "hey, we can sell this in America too!", and it was almost entirely GM-Holden's decision to stop making it, officially a case of going out on top and using the line for something else. For what it's worth, very few people saw the new Monaro as a sacrilege to the old.

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Monaro's a fine car. What freaked people out was calling it a "GTO" when that has a lot of cultural resonance here.