Let’s face it – everyone is sick of the teasing. Ever since GM declared bankruptcy last year and euthanized the troubled Pontiac brand, the G8 came and went as fast as its quarter mile time. Then out pops this idea that it will come back, as a Chevy… just in the form of a Caprice police squad car, and unavailable to the public. Soon after, Holden announced a “special edition” Commodore SS, clearly made from spare G8 sheetmetal.
To this day, however, the Commodore is still not available to us bloody yanks and we remain to brood evermore. The example that is most frustrating, though, is definitely the Chevy Lumina (pictured), which is only sold in the Middle East and is a true Zeta-based Chevrolet sedan! The teasing… we’re sick of it. And apparently GM is too.
When asking a few of GM marketing personnel why they insist on withholding a full-sized muscle sedan from the country that invented muscle cars, they have declared, “We have recognized the unavoidable outcry for a Zeta-based sedan, and we plan on bringing a Chevy version to consumers in the very near future.”
Hopefully, GM will officially release the good news during the New York Auto Show in next couple of days.
Oh yeah and… April Fools’!
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Comments
Be careful what you ask for!! There are a lot of Pontiac G8 owners who love their cars, but are being driven crazy over suspension issues. GM seems to be putting in a half-hearted effort at best to help us G8 owners. Replacement parts are sooo slow in coming, and the repairs sometimes are making things worse. (It’s happening to my car!!) Whoever builds this car, and wherever it’s built, they cannot bring this car in under any guise, unless they fix the problem with the existing G8’s and make sure they won’t have front suspension issues with their new zeta platform.
What should be changed is the idiotic laws that Mercedes Benz payed for that prevent us from buying what we want that was intended primarily from other markets and driving it legally instead of being dictated to. Some sort of “light grey” (sic) import program would be nice as well to make any vehicle available to us who are truely interested. Unlike years ago, we’re much more aware of what we’re denied.
What laws are these?
Some primer info about what happened: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_import_vehicle#United_States