look good
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Slightly bigger grille than before but it's not overdone. Looks beautiful.
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It is beautifull inside and out. But I don't like the taillights that much.
Nicely done GM.
Hopefully that'll be GM's new Halo car. Serious improvement over the Bonneville.
GM needs to pull the swollen kidneys outta their asses
and loose the woodward gto hood
Jookycola wrote:Slightly bigger grille than before but it's not overdone. Looks beautiful.
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GM needs to pull the swollen kidneys outta their asses
and loose the woodward gto hood
the bigger kidneys make the car look less BMW and more Pontiac
why pull away from the kidney grills? it's pontiacs front end. it's like getting rid of the poney on the front of mustangs, the twin grills on a bmw, or the 7 bars on a jeep. it's how they roll
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WORK wrote:Jookycola wrote:Slightly bigger grille than before but it's not overdone. Looks beautiful.
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GM needs to pull the swollen kidneys outta their asses
and loose the woodward gto hood
the bigger kidneys make the car look less BMW and more Pontiac
why pull away from the kidney grills? it's pontiacs front end. it's like getting rid of the poney on the front of mustangs, the twin grills on a bmw, or the 7 bars on a jeep. it's how they roll
couldnt agree more. why take away trademark styling? the grilles and the hoods are known on pontiacts. although the GTO hood, G8 hood, and Grand Am GT hoods are all slightly different in their respects, they are all similar and keep the pontiac feel. The grille on the other hand, should never change and probably never will. I like both the grille and the hood on the G8 personaly. The car looks very good, slightly different, but still all Pontiac
On the other hand....you have other fingers.
KevinP (Stabby McShankyou) wrote:not funny... i just can't find that funny... not with 2 copies of the Candyland board game on your shelf.
Hopefully the look stays that way once it hits the streets. Cars tend to lose the agressive look once they come out.
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Looks like a caddy with pontiac badging and styling from the side on pontiacs website. Not bad though looks like it should be a fun car.
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Wow... bout damn time GM! V8 and RWD, this thing is a beast!
Corsica Dude wrote:Wow... bout damn time GM! V8 and RWD, this thing is a beast!
umm..... Hi, GTO much? Living under a rock?
On the other hand....you have other fingers.
KevinP (Stabby McShankyou) wrote:not funny... i just can't find that funny... not with 2 copies of the Candyland board game on your shelf.
im loving the Holden influence that GM is starting to bring to this country
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Actually, what's funny about the G8 is that it'll be a loss leader. They're making in
Australia and the shipping to the US will cost a freakin' fortune. Adding thousands of dollars to the sticker price. Yet, at the same time GM can't take the tooling from Holden and build their cars in the US because of previous legal agreements. It's the same stumbling block between Ford of USA and Ford of Australia. The Australians don't want to share their technology with their Northern brothers and lose their monopoly on the RWD Falcon platform which they own and designed.
It's also sort of why Mercedes and Chrysler never really shared any modern technology apart from the 5 speed automatic trannies and a few doodads. The 300/Charger LX platform is an old E-Class platform that's been revisioned for Chrysler, but it's all old technology that Mercedes wouldn't have used anyway. Funny how mergers never really bring any real sharing of technology to simplify the whole "making cars" process.
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How do you figure it will be a loss leader? The may spend more to ship it but they save $1000s in UAW costs.
GM has done business w/ them since the 70s. They used many a pontiac part on their manaros for a long time.
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Knoxfire wrote:
It's also sort of why Mercedes and Chrysler never really shared any modern technology apart from the 5 speed automatic trannies and a few doodads. The 300/Charger LX platform is an old E-Class platform that's been revisioned for Chrysler, but it's all old technology that Mercedes wouldn't have used anyway. Funny how mergers never really bring any real sharing of technology to simplify the whole "making cars" process.
No.
The only thing Chrysler's LX-platform shares with Benz's E-class is the rear 5-link IRS and the 5-speed auto if equiped with a V8. That is it.
If you want to make that argument, use the Crossfire and first gen SLK.
If anything on that merger, Benz learned more from DCX. One of which is how to put a turbo on a gasoline engine, that never happened for Benz in the past.
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meh.... with 2 fewer doors, i'd like it...
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The Chevy in the background doesn't look to bad either. Caprice or Lumina?
By the way what is wrong with global idea(part) sharing anyway. We should be happy were getting stuff from overseas. Besides there using the American engines, so why can't we use Australian platforms?
Didn't 50 cent have his hand in this car??
dan
It is too bad it's RWD. It's a pretty damn sharp car. Completely useless, but sharp.
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