Cool Car Award -- Pontiac Tojan

What? You say.  Pontiac Tojan?  Never heard of that.  Well, neither had I until about a year ago, and I just had to share it with you guys.  So, here we go.
          During the late 1980's and early 1990's, Ferrari was the leader in supercars.  Think Testarossa, 308, or F40, and you get the picture.  No one except Lamborghini and Vector came even close to dethroning Ferrari.  Well, that's not quite true.  There was the Pontiac Tojan.
          The Tojan was an experimental car made by Pontiac from 1985 to 1991, and it was pretty cool.  It had a supercharged 5.7L V8 engine with 800hp, and a top speed of 206mph.  As far as we know, anywhere from 150 to 300 of these cars were built.  One was even featured in the movie Collision Course with Jay Leno and Pat Morita.  That car later sold for just $16,500.

Interesting features of the Pontiac Tojan

1.  The prototype car had a supercharged boat engine with 900hp.
2.   The most expensive Tojan ever sold was the Collision Course movie car, which sold for $65,000 in 1986, equivalent to $150,000 now.
3.  When Carfection did a video featuring the prototype a while back, they said that the suspension was too soft, and the steering was too vague.  Too bad Pontiac couldn't fix that before they put the Tojan into production.