Well I heard theor marketing and OE engineering teams are no longer there. They still do aftermarket performace parts but not the parts that they can sell as a package on a new car. Thats the last I heard. Hopefully it wasnt true.

Their Axtell Road office is about 2 miles from my office, I used to stop in from time to time. But I havent visited them in a year or so. Maybe its time to take a ride over there and see who's still there.

 

I don't think anyone will be there because they packed up and went back to New Jersey.

 

I thought "bobcat" was owned by Royal Pontiac in Michigan who produced " Royal Bobcats" and not owned by GM???

 

Royal Pontiac is gone, its Jim Fersard Pontiac now. So I guess SLP bought the rights to the Bobcat name. Amazing in this day in age that nobody went and copywrited the Bobcat name before SLP.

Not sure about the "Judge" name GM or Pontiac may have the rights to it, and thus if SLP would make a vehicle they could lease it from GM. I have a hard time beleiving that Judge is not copywrited by now! yet stranger things have happened....

 

SLP has moved the majority of their Michigan operations to NJ.

According to Dave Hamburger at SLP day in NJ last weekend, they are targeting spring for a GTO package.

I was surprised to find this myself, but no one had rights to "The Judge", and SLP has indeed attained the copyright for it and "Here come da Judge". I asked Dave about it, and he told me to do a search at the US Patent and Trademark Office site. I turned these up.

Typed Drawing
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Word Mark THE JUDGE
Goods and Services IC 012. US 019 021 023 031 035 044. G & S: automobiles
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number 78121405
Filing Date April 12, 2002
Filed ITU FILED AS ITU
Published for Opposition October 22, 2002
Owner (APPLICANT) SLP Automotive Group, Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 1465 Axtel Road Troy MICHIGAN 48084
Attorney of Record Oliver E. Todd, Jr.
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE


Typed Drawing
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Word Mark HERE COME DA JUDGE
Goods and Services IC 012. US 019 021 023 031 035 044. G & S: automobiles
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number 76447234
Filing Date September 6, 2002
Filed ITU FILED AS ITU
Published for Opposition May 6, 2003
Owner (APPLICANT) SLP Automotive Group, Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 1465 Axtell Road Troy MICHIGAN 48084
Attorney of Record Scott A. Blake
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE


Typed Drawing
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Word Mark BOBCAT
Goods and Services IC 012. US 019 021 023 031 035 044. G & S: Automobiles
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number 78268782
Filing Date June 30, 2003
Filed ITU FILED AS ITU
Owner (APPLICANT) SLP Automotive Group, Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 1465 Axtell Road Troy MICHIGAN 48084
Attorney of Record Oliver E. Todd, Jr.
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE

 

Why don't they pick a name that is relavent today, instead some saying from a TV show 30+ years ago. Maybe there will be a "whoop there it is" GTO or "I'll be back"or some other popluar 80's/90's saying

I'd rather see a WS6 GTO (or maybe call it WS7 since WS6 is now used by the GTP)

 

I suggest a GTO XXX, from the next XXX movie that will come out with Vin Diesel.

 

I don't know about the rest of you guys.....but this all seems so gimmicky and contrived to me.

Lemme see........the "Bobcat"treatment gives exactly 389 horsepower, the "Judge", exactly 421.

What?....no "Ram Air" or "Hurst" with exactly 455hp? Are we running out of displacements that we can convert into horsepower?


Does anyone remember what a "Bobcat" supertune was? Or what a "Judge" was? Does anyone care.....ANYONE??????????

They'll sell them all,.....I'm sure...... and at a huge mark-up, but I'm just turned off by all this contrived bullsh!t.

 

Ice Cube will be in the new xXx, not Vin Diesel. Sorry Vin fans.


GTO XXX would be more pop culture relevent then GTO "The Judge"

THe GTO special edition name that I want to see the most is GTO 427 or GTO 7.0L