GTO versus GTO also served as inspiration for pitting a 2025 Jeep Wrangler—a solid-axle, recirculating-ball-steering, body-on-frame horseshoe crab—against a 1968 Pontiac GTO.

The Pontiac GTO was a front-engine RWD, two-door, and four-passenger automobile produced across just five generations (with a hiatus between 1975 and 2003) from 1963 to 2006.

Pontiac sold 32,450 Tempests with the GTO package during the 1964 model year. Meanwhile, Ferrari produced, depending on who you ask, 36 or 39 250 GTOs between 1962 and 1964.

The Pontiac GTO was the prototypical muscle car. The iconic three-letter initialism today is more associated with Pontiac than the racing category it usurped. Back in the 1960s, the GM division ...