Archive for the ‘G8’ Category

The good times for Hyundai keep on rolling: J.D. Power and Associates has given top marks in its Vehicle Launch Index to the 2009 Hyundai Genesis. The Index "quantifies how well new vehicle models -- including new entries to the market and all new redesigned models -- perform during the first eight months after launch." Among the many criteria that J.D. Power considers during the evaluation process are vehicle revenue, dealer gross profit, residual value, and data imported from the company's Initial Quality Study. In short, the Vehicle Launch Index offers a kind of holistic assessment of the vehicle, measuring how well it performs for the...

Though less than two weeks old, the young, nubile General Motors Company seems slightly more savvy than its bloated parent, General Motors Corporation. First, Bob Lutz recanted his position on the Pontiac G8, which was bad news for enthusiasts but good news for GM's bottom line. And now vice president of Buick-GMC Susan Docherty has indicated that she's planning to keep a fairly short supply of Buicks on hand at dealerships: around 45 - 60 days' worth. Sounds like a bit of good old fashioned business acumen to us -- too bad it took the world's fourth largest bankruptcy trial to make everyone see the light. [Autoblog]

Be careful which news story on the Pontiac G8 you read first, and don't get your hopes up. General Motors has released what we think is its Final Answer about the sport sedan: It won't be coming back for 2010.

In recent days, the future of the Pontiac G8 has taken the form of a novella…with some trusty elements of Shakespearean tragedy thrown in. We've felt the suspense of how the G8—a sport sedan that's found much critical acclaim over the past couple of years, along with a strong enthusiast base—might be discontinued. Then just after we breathed a sigh of relief and thought we'd reached a happy resolution—late last week, when Lutz had...