“tell me the G8 wasnt awesome…go ahead and tell me it wasnt Grawdady because the G8 was amazing,”
The G8 wasn’t amazing.
The G8 was proof that even when you give into the public, not even a RWD V8 sedan could save a brand. Same deal with the Solstice.
It shows that the G8 was nothing but an expensive risk that contributed nothing to the bottomline and sold poorly, no matter how GM tried to frame Pontiac as a “performance brand”.
You’re being unrealistic if you think a brand that only survived as far as it did for the last 30 years from rebaded/rebodied cars can make a quantum shift into niche performance sales.
Lets try another question, and don’t skirt around it.
Say Pontiac was parred down to just the G8 and the Solstice and they sold 25K units total in one model year. Now with all the money Pontiac has earned, where do they spend it? The G8 or the Solstice?
Compeating models from with GM and from other automakers have stepped up their game because they have more resouces, more engineers, more researchers, and more money. So what does Pontiac do with the limited pile of cash it has? The money will run out and eventually the G8 and Solstice won’t be compeditve anymore when demand dries up; no one is going to want to buy outdated piles.
