Hey, I found the file:

Comment by S-60-driver: Little better but has the boring, generic look to it. Try again, GM!

Comment by 1952 MG TD: I’m up for someone taking a photo of me as I leak, looks a bit like my butthole after I have been reamed by deantj

Comment by bun_a_gm: It’s hideous. Lose the GM badge, Please. GM is ****. FACE IT. The Japanese have this market. Period.

Comment by leozug: wow. they’ve done a really good job of being absolutly boring and unimaginative. good work. next…all i have to say is, “another boring, cookie cutter, XXXXXX . Whooptie-Freaking-Doo.”

Comment by BrokenCadillac: Looks like GM’s truck designers took a crack at a sedan… Two thumbs way down.

Comment by YourNameHere: zZzZzZzZ that gotta do better then that if they want ppl to pay attention to it to expand…its ugly. just plain ugly. not even interesting, attention getting, a special kinda person, ugly. those kinda cars still sell…this is just plain ugly
Comment by GarbageMotorsCo: The only thing this is going to “crush” is your GM “faithfuls” hearts when this thing comes to market and it’s biggest customer is Avis Rental Car.
Comment by LamborghiniZ: GM does make inferior products, thats why the Malibu and G6 are PATHETIC competitors to the Accord, Camry, Altima, Mazda 6, etc. This isn’t “anti-fanboy” anything, I’m a realist, and I’m being realistic here when I say the Malibu hasn’t ever been, and I doubt will be, any competition for the best in the segment.
Comment by YourNameHere: i will laugh at anyone that pays sticker for one of these….hell i will laugh at anyone that pays more then 3,000 under sticker

the Holden Commadore is a great car. my fingers are crossed, hoping that they come with a 6speed manual, unlike the automatic-manuals on the Grand Prix GTP.

Where are all the naysayers? I would posts them but I cannot find the file” – Comment by chris2, posted on February5 at 10:51 pm
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Because anyone with the intellectual capacity of a parsnip can figure all that through the windshield via these blurry pics. Whatever. You’ve done more to flush your own credibility down the toilet than anyone else ever could have hoped. On the plus side, you’re the winner of this thread’s asshat award: you haven’t seen the G8 in person — much less driven it — and you already *know* exactly what kind of machine this is. Congratulations.

Your boundless black-hole stupidity is beyond my ability to describe in it’s entirety.

Again, the uninformed. Did you know the Camry and ES also share architecture the same way GM does? Accord/Camry? Nissan/Renault/Infiniti? Can you believe that every manufactuer does this? How stupid can they get? No, they are smart because if they did not they would be out of business (of course low volume, high priced OEMS do not do as much, but then they charge for it and the market is small).

http://g8board.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10

I personally detest badge engineering. It seems insulting to the customer to try to associate the same vehicles with different brand values by changing design details. GM and Ford seem to feel that the customer is stupid enough to pay more for a brand name, even when the product is the same under the skin and entertainment system as an inferior model. Witness the Lincoln Navigator and Cadillac Escalade.

Don’t they realise that when Cadillacs are so obviously Saabs, Opels and Chevrolets with detail changes, that the brand’s value is being decimated. This is a brand that used to be mentioned in the same breath as Mercedes-Benz and Rolls Royce.

The same thing happened in Britain in the 70’s when the governement owned Austin-Rover started acquiring all the British manufacturers. Soon Triumphs, Rovers, Wolseleys Rileys and Austins were all the same thing, later MG’s became rebadged Rovers. Not long afterwards there were no Triumphs, Rileys, Wolsesleys, Austins or MG’s. Even Rover never recovered fully and after being subsidised by the government for years while selling rebadged Hondas it too has gone – a thoroughly deserved demise for a brand that had lost its identity.

And I still think they should keep the Grand Prix name.

The Solstice was not designed in Germany, and it’s not imported from Germany either. Don’t know what you’re talking about. Identity crisis at Pontiac, sure, but the Solstice is [mostly] American.

And besides, from what’s been reported, they’re just trying to get this G8 to market asap. Supposedly it will be built at the Grand Prix plant in Canada and get a facelift a few years down the road.

Id say G8 is competing with a Charger R/T.

Nevertheless, I look forward to seeing more from this car. GM has its 300C competitor. Now let’s wait and see how it does.

The last GTO that came over was crucified because the styling was too bland. And the GTO lovers cried because it did not have hood ports. That is why this one has them. Hopefully they are functional and add HP.

Where are all the naysayers? I would posts them but I cannot find the file:)