GTO is a 4wd coupe, which is twin turbo - maybe built to challenge the GTR32-33, and supra of the days?
FTO is an NA powerd 4 cylinder MIVEC engine - to target the ever growing integra, civic phase of VTEC - which is still going on...lucky for us it's the VVTI or VVTI-L that's fueling our blood lust :P
was being unproductive at work today :o , and typed in ' civic vs corolla vs mazda' - OZ honda and OZ mazda ppls are crazy every known insult under the sun has been thrown at the STIVo and how it's not as cracked up as the data shows it to be! <_< when's the next drag day in melbourne.... :D
Believe me i know. Im always on the Ozhonda forums, and some of disregard the stivo altogether. They reckon its not worth the money, yet years ago when the Civic vti-r was sold in aus it cost more than a stivo does now and it has WAY less features and less performance...interesting.
As for the FTO...the tiptronic's are slugs and before i bought the Stivo i was researching them and there seems to be alot of problems associated with the tiptronic box and other areas of the car. GR...umm no can anyone say ***** weak? GPX...they do have a nice sound, 2.0 v6 beautiful engine but it just isnt that quick...i reckon it would be about the same as the Stivo if not, just a little bit quicker (Manual only, the tiptronic is very poor).
Yup i agree... my gf had a fto gr (tiptronic) and i owned it off the line with my stock ascent, even goin uphill :P she was pretty ****** bout it...cause her fto "looked" faster so dont be scared of the ft-slow.. own them wen u see one! but i must say the handling is bloody good. loved cornering with that thing on mt roads goin 130+ also the ride hight is nice n low... makes driving my rolla feel like driving a 4WD (at least we'll be safer if we're hit by one)