Pontiac to get G8 rwd family
Sedan will be followed by wagon, sport truck

Jamie LaReau
Automotive News
November 19, 2007 - 12:01 am ET

DETROIT — General Motors plans a new family of rear-wheel-drive vehicles for Pontiac. The G8 line will include a sedan followed by a wagon and sport truck.

All will be modeled after products sold by GM's Australian subsidiary, Holden, according to three sources familiar with the project. The vehicles will be assembled in Australia.

There was debate within GM about whether to give the sport truck to GMC. GMC won't get it.

Instead, GM's marketers wanted — and will get — a Pontiac sport truck so GM can market the three rwd vehicles as a high-performance family.

The sport truck will have the same drivetrain as the Chevrolet Camaro, and it will use a modified sedan architecture.

There is one caveat: Sources say the wagon and sport truck may be repriced or canceled if the U.S. dollar continues to drop. The Australian dollar is currently worth 90 cents in U.S. currency, up from 79 cents in August.


Lets hope the US dollar stays or gets stronger.

Page not found on that link Herc.

Sorry. The link was to a site you have to subscribe to. I removed it. But still bring on the Excitement.

I want the sport truck sooooo bad. It'll be like the sexy El Camino I never had.

If you guys check out the December edition of MotorTrend, it has those pontiacs in it, as well as some more G8 info, the corvette (ZR10) and the competition, the GT-R!

You mean those Holden's

Why is it that a country that has 1/4 the population of the U.S. is able to support a market for high perf RWD and here state side it can't?

Bush is running the country, everything is crap!

i agree, i dont agree with a lot of bush's decisions...

EDit: i was never a big fan of sport crossovers

Sport trucks make me . SSR is fast, but it is so hideous. Maybe growing up in Texas I have this way of thinking that you leave towing to the trucks and the REAL 'getting up and going' to the cars. 'Cept for maybe the Lightning. But for some reason the thought of a sport truck still makes me 'lol'.

That doesn't mean I don't acknowledge that they could kick my tail, because some of them can. It's just that in the end, I'm still laughing a little.


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I just rcv'd my prescription the other day.

The reason Pontiac is getting the Holden Ute and not using it to bring back the El Camino, is because Chevy already has a full line up with no room for the El Camino.

Interesting choice of words!

I've always been a fan of the car/truck crossovers. The Ute looks fabulous and I could always make use of the truck bed for carrying various things, but I don't need an offroad/towing vehicle.

LMAO

I was thinking the same thing.

A sport truck huh...interesting. There were actually a lot of trucks racing at the drag strip last time I went (only in Texas. ) There weren't a whole lot of really fast ones, although a few were running mid-14s and faster, but when evenly matched, they were some good races.

The announcer was saying that it was a good drag night in Texas - lots of trucks, car show, an alchohol dragster (WOW that was LOUD!!!), free hot wings, and an absolutely insane wheelie.

I would like to see the new Pontiac truck...and I hope it's not cancelled.

*EDIT* OK, nvm...the Ute is completely ugly...

And while the Commodore (which is the G8) wagon looks ok, I hate to see it go the same route as the Charger. I don't like the sporty engines in wagons like that...but hey, that's just me.

For those wondering what the new line-up looks like

Check out December MotorTrend edition, has all that stuff, fella's and gals!
Plus that truck in there is freakin green, loooks terrible. They also call one of them the UTE, short for utility coupe I think.

They call it the Ute cause that's what they call the truck version in Australia. Ute is short for Utility. The orange one above is the Ute.