Thread: How many were made?

From what I can tell they didnt make a STE in 90 last year of production was 89. Here are the numbers I could find.
1989
(4/6) Base Price (4/6) LBS - Total Prod.
LE
4dr sedan 11969 2676 *

SE
4dr sedan 15399 2760 *
wagon 16699 2899 *

STE
4dr sedan 22599 3381 *
*total 6000 production was 100586


1990
(4/6) Base Price (4/6) LBS - Total Prod.
LE
4dr sedan 12149/12809 2837/2886 *
wagon** 15309 3156 *

S/E**
4dr sedan 16909 3015 *
wagon 18509 3201 *
* total production was 66,389
** V6 only

1990 -- This year marked a couple of firsts for the GP. 1990 was the first year a 4-door Grand Prix was offered and the first year a 4-cylinder engine was available. It was the 2.3 liter Quad-4. Trim levels became: LE coupe and sedan, SE coupe, STE sedan,and the McLaren/ASC Turbo coupe. The turbo coupe was again all red and limited production.

Anyone know how many of my GT were made? It's the 2002 40th Anniversary Edition with the dark cherry paint and 40th anniversary badges? I own the only one in my corner of the state and have never seen one before....And I can't seem to find any production numbers on it. Dealer I bought it from said it was rare...? Any input would be great.

The STE Ibwrong's post is referring to is the Pontiac 6000. They introduced the Special Touring Edition as a trim level in '83. Despite not being the flagship of the Pontiac line up, they would end up receiving all the high tech gadgetry for the next several years. The last year for the 6000 STE was '89, with only 1376 being produced, ALL of which came with standard full time AWD. Starting in '90, the STE moniker was moved over to the then more popular Grand Prix.

The STE package for the Grand Prix was produced from '90 - '93. It was the premium package for the sedans, complete with STE specific wheels, seats (10-way driver's side power) and center console lid covered in the controls for the seats, 8 speaker system (including 6.5" AND tweeters in the front doors), specific door panels, etc.

In '90 only, 1000 of the 5773 STEs came with a McLaren Turbo version of the 3.1L. They were only available in white or maroon with key colored rims, and got the same functional heat extracting hood louvers as the 2-door McLaren Turbos. Outside of the hood, and the "Turbo" under the STE badges, there is no distinguishable feature between a turbo and non-turbo STE. The turbo 3.1 was dropped all together after '90. The n/a 3.1 became standard with the 3.4 DOHC as an option.

Dubbed TGPs, the 2-door Turbo Grand Prix was only produced in '89 (751 made) & '90 (2749 made), and were only available in red and black with the vast majority coming in a camel interior. Only a handful got a light gray interior. While the '88 Olds Cutlass Supreme Pace Car was the first car to introduce HUD, there were only 250 of those produced, so I consider the TGPs to be the first "regular production" car (if you can call them that) to get HUD. A slightly trimmed version was then available for all GPs from '91 - '93, before the interior redesign in '94, which saw the first "under the dashpad" version HUD. Again, nothing on a TGP signifies that it is a McLaren project, though they are ever so slightly easier to distinguish from a non-turbo model vs. the STEs. While the B4U body cladding package is almost identical, the TGPs were the first to get the cladding (originally built by ASC, thus "ASC/McLaren Turbo Grand Prix"). Consequently, they were the only GPs to have the same body cladding that the '91 - '93 GPs would be available with, but still retain the composite headlights instead of using the "mini-quad" headlights found on the later GPs.



Any other questions?

Even more exclusive than the Turbo Grand Prix Coupe, was the Turbo Special Touring Edition Sedan. These cars carried all of the luxuries of the Grand Prix STE, ASC/McLaren added the turbo power train and hood louvers. They were only produced in 1990 to an estimated 1000 units. from wolfskins turbo gp page