What does GT mean?
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GT is generally referred to as high-performance sports cars. GT is translated into English as Grand-Tourer, where Grand means luxury, and Tourer means traveler or cruiser. Combined, Grand-Tourer is also known as a luxury touring car. More information about GT is as follows: The origin of GT: Long before cars existed in Europe, Grand-Touring referred to the carriage of large horse-drawn carriages used for long-distance travel. However, with the continuous evolution and changes of the times, horse-drawn carriages have long been replaced by cars. In the 1960s, cars were generally not capable of long-distance travel due to low mechanical reliability, leading to the emergence of a batch of high-performance, high-reliability, high-horsepower sports cars, which were called GT. The first GT car: The world's first car that could be called a "GT" sports car was the Alfa Romeo 6C-1750GT in 1929, which later won numerous honors, pioneered the "GT" sports car, and was written into the history of automobile development.