Just a few weeks ago Consumer Reports announced its Top Picks for 2007 list. For the second year in a row, all of Top Pick cars came from Japanese nameplates. While the Japanese cars excel in tests, there are good alternatives, and there are many people that will only “buy American.” For the second year, […]

Just last week we reported that GM’s Australian arm Holden was looking at additional exports markets for its Commodore sedan. Today the U.K.’s Vauxhall announced its new VXR8, a rebadged Holden Commodore HSV Clubsport R8. Both are the product of Holden Special Vehicles (HSV), the officially designated performance vehicle division of Australian motor car manufacturer […]

When General Motors unveiled the all-new, rear-wheel drive 2008 Pontiac G8 at the Chicago Auto Show earlier this week, John Larson, Pontiac general manager talked about Pontiac’s new focus on Power, Performance and Design. Pontiac has been working on those three elements with the Solstice, Solstice GXP and its G6 GXP. Now Pontiac is adding […]

Earlier this week, Bob Lutz was on hand when General Motors unveiled the highly anticipated, all-new, rear-wheel drive 2008 Pontiac G8 at the Chicago Auto Show. A badge-engineered Holden VE Commodore SS-V, the Pontiac G8 is the first North American vehicle to ride on GM’s new global rear-wheel drive architecture, which will also spawn the […]

With the unveiling of the rear-wheel drive 2008 Pontiac G8 at the Chicago Auto Show yesterday, General Motors is returning Pontiac to its performance roots. The all-new G8 will replace the aging front-wheel drive G8, and will be available with V6 and V8 powerplants. unveiled the all-new, rear-wheel drive 2008 Pontiac G8 at the Chicago […]

General Motors unveiled the all-new, rear-wheel drive 2008 Pontiac G8 at the Chicago Auto Show yesterday. The 2008 G8 is a badge-engineered Holden VE Commodore SS-V, which was the first vehicle to ride on GM’s new global rear-wheel drive architecture. The new low-cost platform — compared to Cadillac’s Sigma platform — will also spawn the […]

General Motors has unveiled the all-new, rear-wheel drive 2008 Pontiac G8 at the Chicago Auto Show. Based on Holden’s new VE Commodore, the G8 is the first North American application of GM’s new global rear-wheel drive architecture that will also spawn the 2009 Camaro, Pontiac GTO, next-generation Impala, and others.
“With the balance of rear-wheel drive […]

Another auto show, another set of broken embargos. This time it was Road & Track magazine’s web site that spilled the goods on Pontiac’s G8. The rear-wheel drive 2008 G8 will replace the aging front-wheel drive Grand Prix.
The base Pontiac G8 will offer a 3.6L V6 engine with 261-hp and 250 lb-ft. of torque. The […]

Pontiac’s big unveiling of its new 2008 G8 sedan at the 2007 Chicago Auto Show has been “leaked” with these images from the show floor. The images show clips from a G8 promotional video on one of the Pontiac booth’s huge screens. The shots were captured on one of six public-access webcams on the show […]

For 2006, Pontiac’s Solstice roadster outsold Mazda’s MX-5 Miata to take the title of America’s most popular roadster. While Pontiac sold 19,710 Solstice roasters in 2006, Mazda only delivered 16,897 MX-5s, but that was up 72.4 percent from the previous year.
Despite being outsold, Mazda North American Operations’ top executive is unfazed by the second place […]