At the recent Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas, tuner Roush received an award from General Motors for their dramatically styled Roush Signature Edition Pontiac G6 sedan. GM Director of Design of Specialty Vehicles Kip Wasenko presented Roush the prestigious award. “The Roush enhancements demonstrate the potential of personalization that an owner could apply to the new clean design,” Wasenko said. Paul White, Roush’s Product Design and Body Engineering manager said, “the G6 is a very well-designed product that lends itself beautifully to design and performance enhancements. We enjoyed an excellent working relationship with General Motors’ design and marketing groups, and our seamless access to Roush’s design, engineering, and manufacturing resources allowed us to develop and apply an extensive modification package in record time.”
The Roush project team included their Roush Design Studio, Body Engineering, Rapid Prototyping, Advanced Composites, Paint, and Trim Department staffs. “Everyone at Roush was extremely excited about the project,” continued White. “It gave us an excellent opportunity to showcase Roush’s full-service capabilities, and the G6 is our kind of car — bold, nimble, with great lines. Our modification package was designed to enhance those attributes and generate enthusiasm for a derivative package.”
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Roush used their extensive engineering, design, modeling, prototyping, and manufacturing services to take this project from the sketchpad to the showroom floor at SEMA, with much of the work done in Roush’s Livonia Design Studio. They produced a dramatic appearance package that included a new hood, front and rear fascias, side rocker panels, rear spoiler, forged 19-inch wheels, exhaust tips, modified headlamps, Sparco seating, and Autometer gauges. The Roush Performance package includes an AEM Cold Air Induction Kit, Brembo brakes, DC Sports strut tower brace, Eibach spring lowering kit, and a GM performance exhaust. Wrapped in Merles Opus Orange Yellow paint with distinctive Roush badging, the Roush Edition G6 closes the gap between road car and road racer.
