My '95 was black, no sunroof (I had to look around for that, as being tall, I couldn't sit in the cars with sunroofs
the GT with 5-speed, so it had the 2.5 7,000-RPM V6. Word is, the engine was good for 8 or 8.5 thousand RPM, but the computer cut it at 7.5 to protect accessories.
That was the best car I ever owned, drove it to 175,000 miles, and the vacuum system started coming apart. All of those things in the intake to switch runner length at whatever RPM that was were plastic, and at about 8 or 10 years old, they became quite brittle. Lots of vacuum leaks in places you can't get to without dropping the drivetrain made for something much less desirable! While it worked, though, I was in heaven!!!!! That engine was the smoothest thing in the Universe, nothing better than a 60-degree V6 (except, I guess, a V12...
) and it was on the original clutch when the intake system started coming apart.
I never really thought much about the name. I knew the idea of using it to replace the Mustang was incredibly stupid, but since both cars existed, it wasn't the same market niche.
The base 4-cylinder had no reason to exist, in either generation. The first-gen turbo 4 was quick, but didn't handle well. (I autocrossed both my '90 turbo 4 and my '95 V6, so I know.) The handling was completely fixed in the second generation car! The second-gen GT was THE car to have for SCCA Solo II G-Stock in the late 90s!
Brakes, on the other hand.... It had rotors smaller than those on a Miata. It had MUCH larger tires than a Miata, so it could stop very well from 80 or 90 mph. Once. Those dime-sized rotors just could not shed heat!
I saw sound mentioned above... I removed my muffler and put a SuperTrapp on it. (Muffler swap was permitted in Solo II stock classes. No changes from the cat forward, but cat back was free.) I have video somewhere, but it will take me a while to find it, but that thing sounded GOOD!