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Re: $3,000 [mrpushrod]
by cracovian
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May 12, 2009 (4:48 pm)
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Replying to: mrpushrod (May 11, 2009 11:45 am)
Ford actually makes quite a few decent models here though Fusion and Fiesta will be Mexican and it hurts. Chrysler seized to exist as a "domestic" to me a long time ago - now they're nothing... With GM planning to import Chinese-made cars in 2011 on top of their existing Korean junk (all of it designed, tested, and rebadged in Korea by Hyundai and Daewoo, not Detroit, so don't kid yourself either), I don't think I'll be looking their way either.
So you seem to diss the gov't but who's keeping this shrinking workforce (and Italian "investors") afloat? They would have seized to exist a long time ago. I'm semi-ok extending loans to them but another $5 billion grant to Chrysler this month (?!) The mint and the Chinese peasants buying up US foreclosed properties will be busy indeed...
P.S. You forgot healthcare and education, and... oh yes, banks 
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Pontiac G8 Could Live On As Chevy-Badged Police Car
by wevk
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May 26, 2009 (4:50 pm)
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http://www.themotorreport.com.au/29073/pontiac-g8-could-live-on-as-chevy-badged-- police-car/
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Re: Pontiac G8 Could Live On As Chevy-Badged Police Car [wevk]
by nojets
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May 26, 2009 (5:22 pm)
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Replying to: wevk (May 26, 2009 4:50 pm)
Wouldn't it be great if we could get one in this country without that awful "I'm disguising myself as a rental car" Pontiac front end? All they need to do is ship it here with the regular Holden front end and glue a Chevy badge to it. I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
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Re: Pontiac G8 Could Live On As Chevy-Badged Police Car [nojets]
by cracovian
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May 28, 2009 (5:15 am)
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Replying to: nojets (May 26, 2009 5:22 pm)
A different front end and a badge would make you buy this car? Please don’t be ridiculous... What I like to do for fun is to travel all over the world tracing my finger on the globe. I buy exotic cars in every country I go to.
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Re: Pontiac G8 Could Live On As Chevy-Badged Police Car [nojets]
by white6
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May 28, 2009 (5:41 am)
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Replying to: nojets (May 26, 2009 5:22 pm)
Gee, yeah, I've never seen a rental car with a Chevy badge on it...
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Re: Pontiac G8 Could Live On As Chevy-Badged Police Car [cracovian]
by nojets
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May 28, 2009 (4:28 pm)
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Replying to: cracovian (May 28, 2009 5:15 am)
News flash for you, people buy cars based on their looks. Or in the case of the Pontiac Aztec fiasco, they don't buy them based on their looks. There is even a market for an Australian company which is importing Holden front ends over here to retrofit G8's back to Commodores. So I guess I'm not the only "ridiculous" one...
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Re: Pontiac G8 Could Live On As Chevy-Badged Police Car [white6]
by nojets
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May 28, 2009 (4:45 pm)
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Replying to: white6 (May 28, 2009 5:41 am)
Does this look like a rental car?
http://blogs.edmunds.com/straightline/g8-impala-front.jpg
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Re: Pontiac G8 Could Live On As Chevy-Badged Police Car [nojets]
by wideglide
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May 28, 2009 (8:27 pm)
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Replying to: nojets (May 28, 2009 4:45 pm)
It looks better than Pontiac's take on it, but I could do without the damned hood scoop. When will GM get it, that sports sedans are about understated sophistication, not boy-racer spoilers and scoops... 
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Re: Pontiac G8 Could Live On As Chevy-Badged Police Car [nojets]
by bvdj84
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May 29, 2009 (4:56 am)
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Replying to: nojets (May 28, 2009 4:45 pm)
I think this looks better than the Pontiac front! Much better.
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Pontiac "styling"
by white6
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May 29, 2009 (5:58 am)
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I think it would look fine as a Chevy (if done right). That doesn't mean I think the current G8 looks like a rental car, just because Pontiac sells cars to Avis. So does Hyundai, and Chevy. I personally think they did a much better "conversion" on the G8 than they did on the GTO. And I know all about JHP importing Holden front bumper kits into the U.S.; I installed one several years ago on my 2004 GTO.
I did a 'shop job myself a while back...
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