1968 Plymouth Road Runner from North America - Comments

Actually the Roadrunner looks very much like the low-line model on which it was based: the Belvedere. The Roadrunner was intended from the start to be a low-buck muscle car: take a large engine and put it in the basic Belvedere, do some suspension/brake upgrades, but the car was still basically a Belvedere. It was only bare-bones for the first few years, however, later by the 1975 model, it was just a luxurious Sport Fury with no real performance image.

Whereas the GTO was intended to be a more luxury performance car, based on the LeMans which was already fairly luxurious by 1968 standards.

A more appropriate comparison would be between the GTO and the Plymouth GTX.

Strongly question whether the 16:42 poster owns either of these cars anyway, let alone both!

And the comment above first says the GTO looks like a Roadrunner, and then says it looks like a Catalina or a Bonneville? Does he have any idea what the GTO really looks like?

Which year GTO? Some years do look like a Roadrunner from the side because of the swept rear pillar, and even the flared rear fenders. Do YOU know what a GTO looks like?

Oh, yeah, let's compare a GTO from 1966 or 1967, before the Roadrunner was even around, to a Roadrunner from 1969 or 1970, by which time the GTO had gone to a new body style.

And yes, I know what a GTO looks like -- better than you. I have owned a '69 Judge (less than 7,000 built).

"Oh, yeah, let's compare a GTO from 1966 or 1967, before the Roadrunner was even around, to a Roadrunner from 1969 or 1970, by which time the GTO had gone to a new body style.

And yes, I know what a GTO looks like -- better than you. I have owned a '69 Judge (less than 7,000 built)."

You're just trying to split hairs rather than admit that it is true that some Roadrunners look like some GTO's. That was the statement that you now continue to argue against. Maybe you don't know what a Roadrunner looks like. I had a 1969 Roadrunner, and several '69-'70 Satellites. I STILL own a 1971 Barracuda, of which only 8,000 were built. So what's your point?

I'd take a Roadunner over a GTO any day of the week. The Roadrunner is a far cooler car.

Hmm, what's YOUR point? So you owned a Roadrunner, big deal. You said the GTO looks like a Roadrunner, then one sentence later you said it looks like a Bonneville or a Catalina (both Pontiacs, go figure).

One could make a much stronger argument that the Roadrunner looked like the Satellite or Dodge Coronet that your grandmother drove to the grocery store. So what? Does that make the GTO better?