Category Archives: Pontiac
- August 20, 2009
- Pontiac G8 Sedan, Wagon and Ute to be sold… in Australia– also posted in General Motors
It’s sad enough that the dizzying, platform-sharing, don’t-call-it-rebadging upcoming product extravaganza General Motors unveiled to the Twitterati and media last week did not include the terms Zeta, Pontiac, G8, or any derivative thereof, but if a new report out of Australia is accurate, Holden is about to pour salt in America’s wound – with [...]
- January 10, 2008
- Pontiac G8: What a long, strange trip it’s been
The hot new Pontiac G8 GT arrived in the Motor Trend garage yesterday. It’s orange, a color called Ignition, and as it basked in G3’s neon glow, I thought: “What a long, strange trip it’s been.”
Almost exactly 10 years ago, I was sitting at lunch in Melbourne, Australia, with Tony Hyde, then chief engineer at [...]
- June 2, 2007
- Alpha RWD platform set to invade GM lineupC– also posted in Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet
Citing suppliers and loose-lipped employees of General Motors as its source, Inside Line has learned that the rear-wheel drive Alpha platform will be making a big splash in the automaker’s product portfolio soon. The Alpha will reportedly underpin a successor to the Pontiac G6 set to arrive in late 2010. Such a vehicle would do [...]
