All bodes well for GM offerings in the U.S. and elsewhere. I do hope that GM is planning ways to offset its performance fleet against the higher CAFE standard. GM’s already said there’ll be no Trans Am….

Ok so we get the Pontiac G8 GXP with around 436hp (hopefully) 6.2L V8. And the Aussies get our 7.0L 505hp LS7 V8??? Lucky Aussies. U.S gets screwed once again!

except that that LS7 is an expensive engine, so maybe it’s a fair trade (60hp less and save however many thousands of $’s)

I looked at crateenginedepot.com and I think an LS7 by itself costs like $16,000 U.S alone for a crate engine

Seriously, we get the damn shaft every time when it comes to cars whether it be imports or domestics; I’m sick of it!

Twice as much? Seems steep, better have a lot more upgrades then just the engine.

And now the other shoe has dropped.
The 500HP engine is required, otherwise, don’t bother.
DrFill

got’a love america

great.

Ill take this over ANY Saleen,Roush,Shelby,Bull**** I mean Bullit Mustang.

it is now obvious to me gm is tryng to kill pontiac. think about how boring the last gto was. for 3 years there was ZERO effort from “pontiac” to do ANYTHING to make it a more intimidating car. my son has a gto remote car based on the last gto, and with ground effects and more dramatic spoilers, it would have been an awesome car! the same goes for the solstice. the gxp is almost identical to the base solstice. no WOW top of the line head turner….nothing. THAT is what pontiac was all about, the WOW factor. its time gm-chevy either shop the brand (hello toyota?) kill it, or get their heads out of the collective rears and fix the division the right way….

Murph remeber when people bitched about Pontiacs cladding,but its ok for Mercedes to have em (AMG), double standard

A good friend of mine has an 05 GTO and he loves it. He’s the kind of guy that doesn’t really care for anything too flashy or that makes a huge statement but when he gets those rear tires spinning or exits an offramp at 100mph+ in 2.0 seconds you know he means business. I think that’s the kind of image Pontiac wanted about 5 years ago. Now they are more performance oriented and are certainly trying to advertise that more.

Problem with the GTO was that it was an aging platform, and we finally got the end of it. They imported too many (in the beginning) and they sold it slightly higher than a Mustang GT (32k base, an employee could get one for 28-30k inlcuding discount) brand new. The interior is nice and the 6.0L is great. What Pontiac should have done was instead of watering down the looks of the GTO was just imported the Monaro the way it was. I liked the looks of the Monaro way better…

Again for the price the LS7 is an expensive limited production engine, so giving us a 6.2L in our largest Zeta car was probably a more affordable and (CAFE standard acceptable). Apparently the Aussies don’t have to worry about this yet.

i love this car bring it to the united states and it still is less powerful then the cts v

As much as I like the high-testosterone engines, in this age of high gas prices I would love to see a lighter, nimble car more. Celicas were a blast to drive, and they never had anything close to the HP numbers today. 500 HP is a niche market, and most people can’t afford them anyways.

You yanks are just bloody jealous of our Aussie Cars!
When will you learn that no-one apart from you southern yankers (see clever play on the word wanker) like american cars/trucks

All Aussies do all day is milk goats and bang sheep. How can they afford this? Is the welfare system there that good?

It’s been the same **** with GM for eternity so I really don’t understand why any of you are surprised. Now repeat after me: ‘The Corvette is King. Thou shall not usurp the Corvette. All hail the Corvette’.

There now, wasn’t that easy? You to are now one with GM.

obviously this will come to NA.

Yes, we have a welfare system. We also have better fords than you too. the corvette is cool but when you can have a GT-R? c’mon america stop being ****

and check out the holden Coupe60 when you have a chance and if LLN would grace us with its pictures

I want Holden to make me a 500 hp volt.

Dodge is now dodging GM 500 will be good but will run into the cts-v so just tune the 6.2 to about 450 or 436 will be just fine.dont dont dont dont leave out the 6speed

John Delorean is rolling in his grave.

The GTO is one lesson I thought not to be repeated.

Drool

Eons ago I had an ‘89 Quad 4 Calais with a red leather interior like this. Still love red leather interiors.

Looks ancient.

Subtle rear wing…here’s the original
http://www.walkinshaw.net/originals/keenas/rear_thumb.jpg

When they tested the Vauxhall VXR, which is basically the Commodore for the UK, on Top Gear, they mentioned some kind of a supercharging option that was already available on the Commodore–I assume through HSV–that pushed it up to 600 horsepower.

Oh, and I guess this must be the electric version of the LS7 we’ve been hearing so much about, because the car is driving on the moon.

The wheels look pretty bad in my opinion, i prefer the stock 20s off my HSV GTS. Soon the LS2 in Australian HSVs will be replaced by LS3 anyway.

I like the looks of it. Of course it’ll be a ball kicker.

I’m not sold on the styling, but this is a friggin badass car no doubt. Let’s see how much this beast will cost.

That is a Bad-Ass profile.

No way will it cost twice as much. You can buy an LS7 crate motor for $13k.

Cool idea…

It might be the color and the lighting but…

This is one ugly car.

The bodywork looks like some crap you see strapped to a 10 year old Eclipse. It looks wanna-be and cheap and is not worthy of the high praise and expectations placed on the line-up.

Same as G8 no Difference and probably will end up in the shope regularly for blown GM motor!

Can’t help but think with an overhaul of the styling that this would make a fine Impala SS… wishful thinking again I suppose…

Heart64,

Maybe. but only if the owner doesn’t take any kind of care of the engine. I’ve found GM (and FORD) V8s to be nearly indestructible… if you remember to change the oil on schedule and treat the thing like you mean to keep it for more than the life of the car note.