You may have heard of recent disparaging reports about Holden’s future in the local press. In the USA things are a little different. The Washington Post has a great right-up about the Pontiac G8 – basically the Holden Commodore S, SS and HSV models. It’s hard to find a bad review of the G8 in the USA:
It was a nice car. That’s “nice” as in “bad” and “kick- . . . ,” well, you get the idea…the G8 GXP proves that GM can and does make darned good cars…it is not likely to win any awards from the Sierra Club or from President Obama’s auto task force.
I wish some of the pundits in Australia and the left would get the idea as well. G8 sales have started the resurrection of the Pontiac brand, with nearly 3000 in March and nearly 22,000 sales since March 2008 – a good effort considering the economic times. It also makes the G8 Pontiac’s current highest selling car. By comparison, Holden sold in 51,000 Commodores in Australia in 2008. A brand that is well established in the domestic market.