The persist decade has kept on difficult for General Motors enthusiasts who decent an affordable V8 RWD sedan (we sttink the V-series Cadillacs, but alas, they’re not spot on budget rides). With the introduction of the Pontiac G8, however, all is forgiven, for the present muscular four-door looks like it’s poised to find a blend of attitude and sophistication appropriate for the kind too reports to create excitement.

This Poncho is founded upon GM’s new Zeta platform, and the base ideal supplies up a 261-hp, DOHC 3.6L V6. GT examples get the 362-hp, L98 OHV 6.0L V8 surrounded by Displacement on Demand. No bonus points could be awarded for right predicting that we would pick. The V6 might turn up amid a five-speed slushbox, additonally the V8 ought to initially be backed among GM’s new 6L80 six-speed auto, and a row-your-own manual amid a half-dozen ratios is able to try to be like at a yet-undetermined consequently date. Naturally, the GT becomes a higher wheel/tire package and large brakes, and a sport package is able to be offered for either engine type. Under the skin lies a McPherson strut suspension condition in the front and multi-link in the rear, in on the complete array of adjustments obtainable at every corner.

Elements of the establish car too can not create it to generation put in the big brakes, reduced ride height, 20″ wheels, and customized interior trim. Note the new badge design; how we are seeing right here is a notion version of a new Pontiac logo the eschews the traditional red coloration for a metallic sheen.