The new Pontiac GTO, for instance, is derived from the sporty Monaro coupe made by GM's Australian subsidiary, Holden.

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He was credited with creating the first muscle car, the Pontiac GTO, and headed up the Pontiac division and later Chevrolet.

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General Motors tried this a few years back, taking its revered Pontiac GTO nameplate and slapping it on a rear-wheel-drive Holden imported from Australia.

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The watch has a four-barrel power plant (is this beginning to sound like a Pontiac GTO?) in which one spring, on being wound down, transfers control to the next.

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General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ) tried this a few years back, taking its revered Pontiac GTO nameplate and slapping it on a rear-wheel-drive Holden imported from Australia.

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His biography was 1980s pop-culture lore: A shining star at GM who developed the Pontiac GTO, DeLorean had a flamboyant lifestyle (chest-hair-displaying V-necks, gold chains, a preference for, as he put it, "women who are dramatically less educated than I") that clashed with Detroit's conservative culture.

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