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Aug 5, 2014 | 03:13 PM

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rockville

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Originally Posted by s4play

Lots of good info in this thread makes me feel like it's 1990's again

I love the black stealth pictured above, aside from reliability factors, I still believe this car was way ahead of it's time in that era. Granted it has not aged well but it's a pretty cool car and one of the first ones I set my eyes on in the infancy of my car career!

I think it was ahead of it's time in the tech it included but not in the end product. Ahead of your time isn't always a good thing. GM was ahead of their time with big things like turbos (not really viable until you had computer control), touch screen displays (nice idea, tech in the 80s wasn't good enough for a car), displacement on demand (Cadillac V8-6-4... nuff said), and actually quite a number of other things.

Note, the 3000GT's tech was perhaps better executed than much of what GM did in those examples.