It may be that nothing succeeds like success, but then success doesn’t succeed as well as it used to. Take the case of the Pontiac Fiero. It was obvious from the start that the Fiero was going to be a winner. The plastic over steel sportster was the right car at the right time. Car and Driver even applauded it as one of its 10Best for 1984. By the end of 1984, Pontiac had built 100,000 Fiero’s, as many units as the factory was able to pump out. By any measure the car was a it.
The Fiero GT was proof that the Pontiac division understood the rules of the game. The GT, which went on sale early in 1985, was the first evolutionary step for the Fiero line. It was also a move that about halves the distance between the original Fiero 2M4 and the ideal of a true drivers car.
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