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Replying to: captain2 (Mar 20, 2008 5:59 am) Other than the recent, and now discontinued GTO, what other "performance cars" is Pontiac featuring? |
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Replying to: dborth (Mar 20, 2008 11:32 pm) Pontiac has a very long history in racing: NASCAR in the fifties and sixties, Trans Am in the late sixties and early seventies, as well as being very active in drag racing for years. They have fielded an exotic road racer most recently. Their Trans Am models have been in the marketplace until very recently, and if you've ever driven a WS6 T/A, you'd know what performance is. They may not have had a performance car for the past couple years, but, IMO, most Americans have no problem with tying Pontiac with perfomance. Hyundai, OTOH, may have fielded a World Rally Car ( a series that is basically unknown in the USA ), but what's their racing history?
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Replying to: cobrazera (Mar 21, 2008 1:54 am)
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Replying to: cobrazera (Mar 21, 2008 5:58 am) I will say that Pontiac is the sportiest make in GM's mainstream lineup. Through the 80s and 90s that was because of the Trans-Am and plastic body cladding. In the 21st Century, they haven't had anything notable though. |
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Replying to: dborth (Mar 20, 2008 11:32 pm) There are a number of mfgrs. that cultivate a performance image IMO - Nissan and Pontiac for example and also a number of mfgrs that don't have that kind of image - Toyota and Hyundai among those. The comment was meant to suggest that Pontiac may have a little easier time selling something like the G8 than Hyundai will have selling the Genesis - simply because I believe people expect that kind of car from them.
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Replying to: joe97 (Mar 20, 2008 5:31 pm) As far as the ads during the Superbowl...even Hyundai had to have speculated a release earlier this year. Why would you show the world your next offering and not roll it out 'til 8 months later??? That makes little to no sense at all. You don't see movie previews 8 months in advance, do you? Hyundai almost has to come out perfect and there is little room for botching its biggest launch to date... Seems like they are already botching it up. They show the Superbowl ads, which would lead everyone that saw it to believe it was going to be arriving soon. Now that I have though about it...Hyundai hasn't shown anything else about the Genesis because they don't want to kill the hype behind it by showing ads for it for the next 8 months. However, they have lost a little credibility because everyone that saw those ads is looking around wondering, "Where's that new Hyundai???" Heck...even the folks at the Pontiac stand said the G8 was slated to hit the showrooms 6-8 weeks after the autoshow at the end of January. Well...they are already at dealers here in the DM Metro area.
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Replying to: joe97 (Mar 20, 2008 5:40 pm) I'm also pretty certain that there will be a lot of Hyundai dealers that won't get the Genesis. In my area, I can think of 3 that would get them simply because they are high volume dealers and their service departments are impeccable. I just hope the non-high volume dealers that still offer great customer service aren't left out...they could be hurt by this. |
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| My Hyundai service manager says his mechanics are scheduled for Genesis training in May. This Denver dealership is the #1 Hyundai sales location in Colorado. His guess is that they will begin receiving their first Genesis in late June or early July. | |
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Replying to: captain2 (Mar 21, 2008 6:15 am) That sounds logical..... however I would say GM chose Pontiac because without fleet sales the Pontiac division would be right where Oldsmobile is. At least the G8 will get some people into the showroom and figures to sell without rebates and 0% financing deals. In other words its a car GM can possibly make some money on without having to put out a lot of development $$ since the car is just a rebage from another division.
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Replying to: cobrazera (Mar 21, 2008 1:54 am) Hmmmm...I thought this thread was "mainstream large sedans". Kind of like the Catalina / Bonneville sedans with 389ci / Tri-Power of the late 50's and early 60's. |
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