lol, most of the faults are simple ones, and complaints about things like seat heaters are rubbish.....its a sports car FFS.....
Anyway the American version is MUCH heavier than the Aussie version, the official specs don't really tell the whole picture, I live in Adelaide South Australia , a k and a half away from the factory, most of my mates work there, the amount of extra s**t they added into the GTO is incredible.......I think we have a situation like with the Jap S13's and American 240's, the Jap ones are much better and the American ones suck..... American GTO's suck and the Monaro is much better.....mostly due to American Design rules......
Anyway I've driven a AE86, S13 and a Monaro (GTO), the AE86 is very tail happy, due to its non indipendant rear end (= best drift machine), while I'd put the S13 and Monaro in even honours on drifting, but the Monaro, with its greater amount of torque is much better at low speed drifting, I didn't get a chance to see how it went at high speed, dammit!
In the end the AE86 feels the best, still another live axel holden VB to VP with the diff setup correctly (must) would give the AE86 a run for its money...