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Chevrolet plans to unveil RWD police car Monday, may be based on Pontiac G8
Chevy plans to announce this Monday that it will be offering a new model for police use, likely to be based on the Pontiac G8. Chevy will outline their strategy to convention of police chiefs in Denver, Colorado, said the division in an e-mail today.
According to Automotive News, GM CEO Fritz Henderson told an [...]
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Holden VE Commodore SS V-Series Special Edition bring back Pontiac G8 memories
While we’re still mourning the death of the Pontiac G8 sedan, Holden has launched two special edition models of the Commodore, which the G8 was based on. The two models, based on the SS V-Series Special Edition sedan, Sportwagon and Ute, get styling treatments that are reminiscent of our beloved Pontiac G8.
The models ditch the [...]
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Keep Hoping: Pontiac G8 won’t be revived as the Buick Grand National, two more Buick sedans on the way
The Pontiac G8 is one car that many keep hoping will see resurrection. At first, there were rumors that the much-loved G8 my be revived as a Chevrolet Caprice. General Motors’ Bob Lutz even confirmed that the Detroit automaker will go ahead with a Chevrolet based on the Pontiac G8, only to disappoint us later [...]
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Twitter Rumor: Pontiac G8 to survive as high-end Chevrolet, think of it as Corvette sedan
Last month, we were officially told that the Pontiac G8 will not survive as a Chevrolet Caprice.
“I’d mentioned it, and said we were studying it, giving it a serious look, because a car like the G8 was just too good to waste,” said Lutz. “That’s all still true. But I have to say that, with [...]
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BREAKING: Lutz says Pontiac G8 won’t be a Chevrolet Caprice after all
We know the title of this article angers a lot of you (and no one is probably more angry then us who had the privilege to experience the top-of-the-line Pontiac G8 GXP for a whole week).
During a live chat earlier this week, Maximum Bob Lutz said that the Pontiac G8 will be saved as a [...]
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Lutz: Pontiac G8 to be revived as Caprice, Cadillac CTS-V Coupe in the works
General Motors Company CEO Fritz Henderson has been very vocal about his dislike for rebadging. He has repeatedly denied that the now dead Pontiac G8 would not be rebadged or imported as a Cadillac, Buick or Chevrolet. However, ‘unretired’ Bob Lutz is back and he’s telling the media that the G8 will live on.
In an [...]
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Poll: Fritz says there will be no Chevrolet, Buick G8. Would you buy one if there was?
It’s no secret that GM will phase out the Pontiac brand in 2010 with the 2010 Pontiac Vibe being the last model from the brand. Even though the Pontiac G8 is the most loved Pontiac model after the GTO, GM’s CEO Fritz Henderson is not a fan of keeping it alive.
Fritz has said over-and-over again [...]
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Reviewed: 2009 Pontiac G8 GXP – Farewell to the All-American Blitzkrieg
Amidst GM’s ‘surgical bankruptcy’ process after which GM plans to discontinue the Pontiac brand, we were privileged enough to spend a week test-driving the 2009 Pontiac G8 GXP. Initially, we were expecting the likes of the Charger/300C SRT8; a soft ride with an automatic transmission just barely powerful enough for highway pulls and loud [...]
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Pontiac G8 may still survive under another GM badge
We’ve been driving around in the 2009 Pontiac G8 GXP for the past couple of days, and the more we drive it, the more we hear Fritz Henderson’s voice in the back of our heads – “No, the G8 will not be rebranded as a Chevy or Caddy.”
To be a little opinionated, if GM killed [...]
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Fritz: V8 Corvettes will live on, Buick LaCrosse to get 4-cylinder turbo, No Chevy or Caddy G8
Even though the ‘New GM’ will be forced to focus on producing fuel-efficient vehicles, it won’t abandon efforts to give its Corvette enthusiasts the much loved rear-wheel-drive, V8 power they have come to love.
“My wonderful baby is my 2005 Corvette coupe,” CEO Fritz Henderson said in his first online chat after filing GM’s Chapter 11 [...]
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