Take the Chevrolet Equinox Sport, slap on a BMW-style grille, add a little bit of chrome here and some two-tone leather there, and you’ve got the Pontiac Torrent GXP. However, unlike at Chevy, the marketing gurus at Pontiac evidently feel the result of GM performance tweaks to these SUVs is worthy of its top performance moniker rather than the pedestrian GT badge.

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