Wow looking back this article alot wrong....albeit using logical facts. The reason the GTO failed wasn't because it was a great car, but the fact it looked like a jelly bean and was poorly marketted from the get go. Further the GTO has a V8 only car was never going to appeal to the wide base of customers any pony car can with an option with a V6 in the low 20s.
Back in 2007 the GTO was one of the three cars I considered purchasing, the other two being a Mustang GT and Solstice GXP. Out of the three the GTO was dynamically the best of the three cars and its errie how similar it drove to the Camaro SS. Had I not decided to buy a house I would have gone with the GTO, I regret my decision to this day.
The Camaro while being a Zeta sedan mutant such an overwhelmingly better car than its competitors when GM brought it back in 2010. While the Zeta platform could not handle like the Mustang it had the sheer power to overwhelm it easily and ultimately forced Ford to abandon the old 4.6L. The Challenger is the real car out of the three Pony Cars that was rushed, being based off the giant sedan LX platform and really can't compete except by how it looks.
The problem that killed the Camaro and the Firebird back in 02 was that GM didn't want to put any money into developing these cars. GM assumed that there was no customer base for a cheap, powerful and affordable RWD coupe.....boy did get that one wrong.
The demand for the Camaro was so much more than anyone anticipated the only way GM can fail with this car again is if they repeat paste mistakes and don't spend the R&D dollars on making it better.