March Car and Driver (Page 1/1) hyperv6 APR 13, 10:44 AM This started a few month back. I saw a Fiero story on Hagerty and saw Gary Witzenberg posting a comment. I told him it would be nice if he could update his book with the complete story on the Fiero death and other items not well known. I have always also said John Schinella was one of the best to talk Fiero as he was with the entire program to the bitter end. I made mention of Porsche Engineering even tuning the 88 Fiero. Well a couple month later the story in C@D appeared with John and Gary addressing the Fiero death and mentioned the Porsche suspension tuning. Note Porsche did not design the suspension GM did but the Porsche folks tuned the turn in and scrub radius. Tom Goad was one of the lead guys that designed the suspension. I sometimes think Pontiac may have used the Lotus myth to hide Porsches involvement since they were racing the Corvette. Also I wish someone would come clean on the Fiero name. You know the story of a John late at night just finding this name in an Italian dictionary. Sounds good but. What about the fact Pontiac had used the name already on a Firebird Aero Concept in 1969? Pontiac also owned the rights to the name at the time it was randomly found hmmmmm? Fiero was for FI rebind a ERO concept. Originally. Sound much like a marketing cover up. Also why was Pegasus rejected so,late? These are questions that need cleared up while we can get answers. Awalker W02 APR 13, 10:54 AM quote Originally posted by hyperv6: Also I wish someone would come clean on the Fiero name. You know the story of a John late at night just finding this name in an Italian dictionary. Sounds good but. What about the fact Pontiac had used the name already on a Firebird Aero Concept in 1969? Pontiac also owned the rights to the name at the time it was randomly found hmmmmm? Fiero was for FI rebind a ERO concept. Originally. Sound much like a marketing cover up. Also why was Pegasus rejected so,late? These are questions that need cleared up while we can get answers. The name thing baffles me too. I was always trying to find the connection to Italy as it is an Italian word. As the fiero was built on the dimensions of the 308 I went back to pontiacs involvement with Ferrari and found the 1972 Pontiac Pegasus. Which was basically a Ferrari powered Camaro redesigned to look like an Italian sports car. I have always wondered if they were connected. css9450 APR 13, 11:21 AM As George Costanza would say, "it's like discovering plutonium by accident!" hyperv6 APR 16, 08:01 AM quote Originally posted by Awalker W02: The name thing baffles me too. I was always trying to find the connection to Italy as it is an Italian word. As the fiero was built on the dimensions of the 308 I went back to pontiacs involvement with Ferrari and found the 1972 Pontiac Pegasus. Which was basically a Ferrari powered Camaro redesigned to look like an Italian sports car. I have always wondered if they were connected. I have wondered about the previous Pegasus too. It was a Trans Am. Bill Mitchell had it built with a V12 from a Daytona Ferrari. Even though his design staff built it GM refused him from showing it at GM events. It became one of his personal cars to drive. Once he passed GM took it back and today it is in the heritage collection. I really would love to speak to John Schinella and get the truth. Pontiac has wanted to use Banshee for many years but GM squashed it because it was a wailing ghost. GM felt it was controversial. Though several show cars wore it.