What can you say about the GreaT One? Pontiac chief engineer John DeLorean and ad agency executive Jim Wangers almost single handedly started the musclecar craze. They took an intermediate car and blessed it with a big (389ci) V-8. Aside from brakes (!) the car had all the performance goodies.

In a year or two every car company had followed suit, but no offering matched the combination of the style, performance, and mystique of the GTO.

In its relatively short (11 model year) lifespan, the GTO managed to change its shape almost every model year. As a result, there's a GTO for all tastes.

As for those three letters, GTO stands literally for (in Italian) Gran Turismo Omologato or Homologated Grand Touring. It was a reference to a European racing class based on production vehicles. At the time Pontiac had a trend of naming their vehicles in this manner: Bonneville, Grand Prix, and LeMans were all from that era.