Now this won’t be some sappy post about how much I love my wife (which is immeasurable by the way ). Although I’m sure she would love that.

No, this is about a longing you feel only when deprived of the pavement pounding, rubber burning, gas guzzling, adrenaline pumping acceleration that gives you that SEG (shit eating grin) every time you tap the right pedal of the 400 hp beast known as the 2005 GTO.

After 3 1/2 weeks of being gone to Indonesia and doing basically no driving, I almost forgot how much fun my Goat is to drive…the key word there is ALMOST! I was itching to get back to that sweet, sweet, rumbling Torrid Red monster.

Since I have been back the past 2 weeks, I think I have sat in Tasha’s car maybe 2 times. Its not that her car isn’t nice. I just can’t say no to the GTO begging me to stretch her long legs after 3 1/2 weeks without any “exercise”. The only day she saw sunlight for the time I was gone was on the day Tasha took her in to get the windows tinted (thanks again honey!).

I went back today and read my post that has the Autoextremist review of the 2005 GTO and after having the car for 2 years, I still think this article is spot on! The juice is DEFINITELY worth the squeeze!

It is a shame that the current generation GTO production has stopped. I can only hope the next generation invokes the same feelings in anyone that has the privilege to drive one. Long live the Goat!

- peeps

One of the major criticism’s of the new GTO is that is doesn’t live up to the name of the original GTO. Now, I have never driven an old GTO, but I have driven some newer Mustangs and a Corvette.

After 1 week of driving my new GTO, I can say that every minute is more fun than the previous and can only get better as I get better with the 6-speed. Not to slight the other cars I have driven, but the GTO is much more comfortable than them and is at a minimum, on par performance wise with those cars (but only because those were hopped up ).

The writer of this article managed to capture the true feeling of driving this car…and he is right. “The juice IS worth the squeeze!”

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That’s right! I am the proud owner of a new 2005 Torrid Red Pontiac GTO with the LS2 6.0L V8 (’Vette engine). It has a 6-speed manual transmission, black leather interior and the drive is absolutely AMAZING!

I will get some picture of mine up soon, but here are some pictures from the Pontiac site of a similar GTO.

I missed a half day of work to go pick it up this morning. Well worth missing work for Tonight when I got home I took Tasha out for a 6-speed lesson. She did pretty good for not driving a manual in several years. Hell, I think I have done fairly well for not driving a manual with a steering wheel on the left hand side since before I bought the Grand Am GT.