2000 Pontiac Firebird and Trans Am: WS6 Gets Its Own Rating

WS6 Trans Ams gained a separate rating for 2000, this record's own overview states. MuscleCarClub's table gives an all-model total of 31,826, the key fact this record leads with, while this record's own production notes state that the first research pass found only that total, with the model, body, WS6 and Firehawk detail that follows drawn instead from the CompNine VIN compilation. A CompNine VIN count runs to 31,582, and this record's own conflicts note attributes the gap to cars missing from the VIN database, so 31,826 leads as the total while the VIN rows stand as lower bounds.^1,2

Within CompNine's own scope, 13,529 coupes and 1,149 convertibles carried the L36 V-6, and 1,518 Formula coupes plus 13,595 Trans Am coupes and 1,791 Trans Am convertibles carried the LS1 V-8, for a V-8 total of 15,113 coupes and 1,791 convertibles. The WS6 Ram Air package reached 231 Formula coupes, 151 six-speed and 80 automatic, against a competing 233 the page prints from another source; 7,092 Trans Am WS6 coupes, 4,053 six-speed and 3,039 automatic, against 7,166 from another source that the Pontiac Trans Am Page also gives; and 1,013 Trans Am WS6 convertibles, 329 six-speed and 684 automatic, against 1,025 from another source.²

The GM-coded WU6 Firehawk base cars numbered 90 Formula coupes, 69 six-speed and 21 automatic; 562 Trans Am coupes, 340 six-speed and 222 automatic, against a competing 601 from another source; and 75 Trans Am convertibles, 45 six-speed and 30 automatic, against 78 from another source. This record's own conflicts note sets the resulting 727-VIN Firehawk total against the Firehawk Association's own SLP count of 741, 704 US and 37 Canadian, different populations against a VIN database this record's own notes call known to be short.^2,3

The Firehawk Association's own body breakdown gives 23 Formula coupes, 39 Formula T-tops, 601 Trans Am T-tops and 78 Trans Am convertibles, 459 six-speed against 282 automatic, and this record's own production notes carry SLP's own color split: 61 Arctic White, 256 Black, 146 Bright Red, 55 Bright Silver, 117 Navy Blue and 106 Pewter Metallic. A separate, uncited NHRA special edition (RPO 1SH) reached 215 Formula and Trans Am cars, with no body or transmission split given for the year.^3,4

This record's own production notes add a wheel-code detail: RPO N66 changed in 2000 from the narrow-spoke 17-inch WS6 wheel to a new style, with QF6 added to designate the earlier design. This record documents four 2000 prices from a buyer's-guide database: $26,980 MSRP and $24,687 dealer invoice for the Trans Am coupe, and $31,050 MSRP and $28,411 dealer invoice for the Trans Am convertible.⁵

What the record documents in full is a year of newly separated WS6 ratings and two Firehawk populations that will not reconcile: a 31,826-car MuscleCarClub total against a 31,582-VIN lower bound, WS6 packages whose CompNine figures each fall short of a competing count from another source in every one of three body-and-model rows, and a 215-car NHRA special edition this record carries from a single uncited page with no further breakdown.¹