Motor Trend Compares/Contrasts the Pontiac GTO and Mercedes CLK55 AMG
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Motor Trend Compares/Contrasts the Pontiac GTO and Mercedes CLK55 AMG 
Snapshot
The Players
Mercedes-Benz's fast and elegant CLK55 AMG bases for $71,920 and includes a ton of technology, creature features, and performance. Pontiac's reborn GTO offers a similar-size and similar-performing package that also comes well-equipped, but starts at just $33,495.
The Game
We compare these two seemingly incomparable cars to see how they're different and, just as important, how they're not. Can you get the same go for half the dough?
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What have we learned? Like that svelte Hugo Boss, the Mercedes-Benz CLK55 AMG is a great-looking, beautifully engineered, top-quality piece that performs at a high level. And, like that other well-made, if mass-produced, suit, the Pontiac GTO provides perhaps 85 to 90 percent of the goodness--for less than 50 percent of the cost.
It isn't that this odd-duck matchup says anything disparaging about the CLK55. It just shows the praiseworthiness of the GTO. Proof positive that, depending on your taste and budget, less can sometimes be more.
The Players
Mercedes-Benz's fast and elegant CLK55 AMG bases for $71,920 and includes a ton of technology, creature features, and performance. Pontiac's reborn GTO offers a similar-size and similar-performing package that also comes well-equipped, but starts at just $33,495.
The Game
We compare these two seemingly incomparable cars to see how they're different and, just as important, how they're not. Can you get the same go for half the dough?
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What have we learned? Like that svelte Hugo Boss, the Mercedes-Benz CLK55 AMG is a great-looking, beautifully engineered, top-quality piece that performs at a high level. And, like that other well-made, if mass-produced, suit, the Pontiac GTO provides perhaps 85 to 90 percent of the goodness--for less than 50 percent of the cost.
It isn't that this odd-duck matchup says anything disparaging about the CLK55. It just shows the praiseworthiness of the GTO. Proof positive that, depending on your taste and budget, less can sometimes be more.
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That'd be plenty enough for me. That or a 6 speed with a sweet clutch.
