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Sedans Pontiac G8 2008 Pontiac G8
1265 messages, Last post on Jul 21, 2009 at 10:14 AM
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Funny, but I prefer the interior of my F150 & Town Car over my G8 (My wifes Town Car was traded for the G8). My wife did too. I never feel that comfortable in Japanese cars. I almost always prefer vehicles made in America or even less reliable vehicles from Europe Furthermore, maybe I spelled Camry wrong, but the technical aspects I pointed out were accurate. And yes, the fusion I drove side by side to the latest generation Camry was much more tossable. I assume you would not notice this since you own a Camry and prefer a soft mushy ride that serves up plenty torque steer. I have found many faults with the G8 too. Not as many as I found with the Camry though. I will drive the G8. I would never drive a Camry because it is a mush bucket. I remember driving the Camry prior to this generation with the foolish tailpipe that practically dragged on the ground with any passengers in the back seat. With this setup the Camry had less ground clearance than my vette. Even my elderly in-laws noticed this when their friends Camry dragged relentlessly when exiting their driveway with passengers in the back seat. Something my Towncar could do with ease even with six passengers (Air adjustable suspension, non brain dead tail pipe placement). I also thought the seats in this gen Camry were god awful and a lot of car mags back this claim up. And again, according to honest owner surveys from CR, the V6 Camry is unreliable. I would imagine this would be something your up on if you are really trying to decipher who is building more reliable vehicles and not trying to bash American car manufactures using data collected in a vacuum??? I heard the poor build quality, crunches in the front suspension myself when I took a Camry for a test drive. Hope the spelling meets your criteria. Maybe you should take a look at Consumer Reports or JD powers reliability surveys prior to giving advice to others. So I own a C5 vette, 09 G8 and latest gen F150. I have owned well over 30 new vehicles including classics such as the 94 Impalla SS, mustangs, and too many others to mention. I am very fussy when it comes to ergonomics, ride and handling. 60-40 weight distribution always rears its ugly head when initial braking in a corner, during acceleration or just in general driving. The G8 is balanced and has an enormous amount of torque. So much so that if you were to put that gusty American V8 in a Camry it would lay rubber for ever during hard acceleration. All available weight would shift to the rear wheels. This was typed up fast so please correct the technical content, not the grammar.
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Replying to: cracovian (Oct 10, 2008 9:58 am) |
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the g8 had less power, was unreliable, took longer to brake, served up torque steer, squealed when entering and exiting off ramps and had rattles coming from the front suspension. I would rather see a poorly lined glove box.
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Replying to: mrpushrod (Oct 10, 2008 11:05 am) |
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I would rather see it built in Canada which I heard they will do eventually. Maybe this will cut the price since I assume this would cause a new evaluation on suppliers and possibly some tweaks in the manufacturing process? GM is a lame duck right now which is ashame. I don't think people are thinking how much it would hurt our economy if we rely totally other countries for big ticket items such as cars. Not to mention you would have to spend even more than the G8 costs unless unless you settled for the usual "run of the mill" 6CYL OHC, nose heavy FWD vehicles from Honda & Toyota. Imagine, not being able to kid the rear end out with the throttle. How boring!!!
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Replying to: mrpushrod (Oct 10, 2008 10:47 am)  ) Then you're telling me I own the Camry???? That's just wrong... Where are you pulling all this information from, I'm afraid to ask? If you're just drunk on Friday evening then just tell me and I'll understand.... I look at CR and data for cars 4 years or older all the time (I just like to keep my cars for a long time since the ones I pick are safe and don't break often.) JD Powers INITIAL quality may be on par for selected domestics but you may want to check that long-term reliability and especially resale values again. You compare Camry with Fusion and then you go on the tirade how inferior this Toyota is to the G8 and other RWD cars which no one has ever argued (???) You might want to read your title again and look in the mirror, dude. There must be a lot of grandmas and people concerned with gas mileage out there since Camry is #1 selling American-made vehicle. It even robbed the selectively Mexican-made F-150 off this title in April. I can't believe we're even talking about this here but I'm not the one who started it. I love the G8, its economy is troublesome to me but nothing a nice December incentive cannot fix. |
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Replying to: mrpushrod (Oct 10, 2008 12:28 pm) The argument of "profits" staying in this country always comes up but c'mon when was the last time anyone has seen them? Not sure if it came completely unnoticed but WE just shelled out $25 billion (within that $700 billion bail-out package) to the domestic automakers which at the current burn rate, should just keep their lights on for a couple of months. Put that (and whatever tens of billions of $$$ that follow) towards education, infrastructure, and alternative energy R&D and have a real positive impact on the economy instead.
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Replying to: cracovian (Oct 10, 2008 9:25 am) I think our definitions of exciting or car with character are different. The Camcordima are all very very good cars, don't get me wrong, but they are appliances in that the owners (for the most part) use them as appliances, a way to get from point A to point B w/o ever knowing or caring about anything else related to the car. They are great for their purpose, just not a car for me to own since car-appliances aren't my style. The reason I don't lump the Fusion or Malibu into that "Appliance" category is not because they are exciting to drive, but they lack to reliability long term that the Camcordima has, just like your Maytag fridge that goes and goes and then you replace it with another one, never seeing the repair guy etc. -mike Motorsports and Modifications Host |
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Replying to: cracovian (Oct 10, 2008 6:25 pm) Ford looks like it'll be trading below $1.00 soon which would make it a penny stock! GM has dropped like a rock the past 2 weeks as well. Thankfully tomorrow and Sunday there is no trading so they won't slide back any further. -mike Motorsports and Modifications Host |
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I have heard it all too about the "made here on our soil", etc. Believe me, if Ford and GM go down this will have a major impact on our already bad economy. Everyone said it was ok to borrow money from China and buy up all of their products too. Now that China and India have boosted the gas prices to ~$4 a gal we have second thoughts. And this is by the way when people started defaulting on their crazy home loans. When we started going to India for our engineering because it was cheap labor and we had a shortage, everyone thought it was good. Now our software engineers are out of work. Engineers that I worked with wanted to sink Microsoft when the monopoly litigation was occurring. The were probably mad it wasn't Sony at the top. We are playing with fire. I have a feeling the striking UAutoW, the lousy American engineers not just at FMC and GM but all of us will be sorry some day for trashing America even when it the information being touted is not true. All the cars are made everywhere. That said, giving the profit to a foreign company on every car sold can't be good. I have read many articles on the issue. And for those of you that can can manage to get to the CR online "reliability of new models" section. They can find their Camrys 6 vehicles from the absolute bottom with a big black bar that extends to the "worst than average" area of the graph. Guess I wasn't hearing things when I drove that mush bucket. It really did rattle.
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