quote:Originally posted by Chuck Melton:
GTS is a model designator, in Europe a "GTS" could have received upgraded brakes, and other performance features. Sometimes all a GTS got was a higher price tag to go with the emblems. (grin)
In the USA an "official" GTS was only a trim package, as the DOT saw it as a new model and required crash testing, and re-certification etc... which DeTomaso and Ford declined, so the USA GTS cars were "cosmetic" upgrades. USA cars do have "GT" in the VIN. (THGTXX0NNNN)
See my "GTS" post earlier for a link to USA details.
Chuck
Thanks Chuck. I saw your ealier post and that is what made me curious, because mine is a eropeon car for sure. Like I posted to you before all the gages are in metric and yes it does say benzia instead of gas. I guess I didn't know my brakes were upgraded because I have nothing to compare it to. My car didn't come with side view mirrors either, I had to add those. I guess the story is an Italian guy bought the car new and after a year he figured he didn't like it. He sold it to a fellow in NY who owned the car for over twenty years. I can tell by what he did, this guy really loved the car. The guy who owned it just before me, didn't love the car. For him it was just a way to impress people and nothing more. I rescued the car from this cad by buying it from him while he was getting divorced. I have tried to undo some of the damage done by neglect, but alsa, I only posses so much skill and tools. I just put a brand new motor in it because a timing accident caused a rod to go through the old one.