Spotted a new G8 GT today - NJFBOA - Home of New Jersey's Camaros and Firebirds

LS1Hawk · 03-20-2008, 05:48 PM

Coming home today from work on the NY Thruway a red G8 GT passed me. Mostly saw it from the back, which kinda has the look/shape of an Audi A4, but much better looking. I couldn't tell if it was a dealer car, but it had NY plates on it. I guess we'll be seeing more of them on the road soon.

JerzyIroc · 03-20-2008, 05:59 PM

i didnt even know they were out already lol

amargari · 03-20-2008, 07:29 PM

I looked at the web site and noticed that you can not get a manual trans with one. Is this true?

shane27 · 03-20-2008, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by amargari

I looked at the web site and noticed that you can not get a manual trans with one. Is this true?

wouldnt believe it till i see it

BonzoHansen · 03-20-2008, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by amargari

I looked at the web site and noticed that you can not get a manual trans with one. Is this true?

Yes, there is no manual offered as of yet. That's was annoucned a while ago.

slugger27nj · 03-20-2008, 08:12 PM

The 6spd is coming next year in the GXP model with a 402hp 6.2L LS3:

http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/f...-g8-gxp-62070/

maroman88 · 03-20-2008, 08:41 PM

didnt no they were out yet either! very coool

LS1Hawk · 03-20-2008, 09:05 PM

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didnt no they were out yet either! very coool

Yeah, it really caught me off guard, and I wish I had seen it coming up behind to catch the front of it. I had to do a double take, because I saw it in my peripheral vision first and thought, "Oh, a G8." And then was like, "Wait, a G8?!?"

DaSkinnyGuy · 03-20-2008, 09:12 PM

I can't wait to see one of these in person.

oh one ls1 SS · 03-20-2008, 09:15 PM

i saw one too i think. a 2 dr one. had a hhuuggggeeeeeee wing on the back tho and i dont care for it at all. other then the wing it was pretty hott

slugger27nj · 03-20-2008, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by oh one ls1 SS

i saw one too i think. a 2 dr one. had a hhuuggggeeeeeee wing on the back tho and i dont care for it at all. other then the wing it was pretty hott

Wasn't a G8....they're only available as a sedan. Might have been a G6 GXP Street Edition.

DaSkinnyGuy · 03-20-2008, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by oh one ls1 SS

i saw one too i think. a 2 dr one. had a hhuuggggeeeeeee wing on the back tho and i dont care for it at all. other then the wing it was pretty hott

your thinking of either the G6 which is the newer grand am or the G5 which is just like the cobalt. The G8 is the new 4 door version of the grand prix, rwd, and lots of pwer

oh one ls1 SS · 03-20-2008, 09:22 PM

oh.. well then! it was some pontiac. any idea what it was?

oh one ls1 SS · 03-20-2008, 09:23 PM

yea.. thats what i saw http://www.technochitlins.com/archives/G6%20GXP%203.jpg

Blackbirdws6 · 03-20-2008, 09:35 PM

i was traveling down in maryland for work and passed by a dealer than had one of first 888. The car came in the night before so it wasn't even prepped for the road. I got to check it all out and I loved it. Shame I couldn't take it for a spin.

-Brian

Frosty · 03-20-2008, 09:52 PM

I love them, people are whining about the lack of the Firebird and the demise of the GTO that didn't sell jack crap...this is a wonderful compromise. I just wish GM would actually market it...but once again they fail in that category. This car COULD shake up it's class..but the problem is that people may never stumble across it.

foff667 · 03-20-2008, 09:55 PM

Yup, we've actually been offering tuning software for them for at least 2 weeks now and have several tunershops working to make some serious power with them.

I would love to have one but the timing isn't what I wanted it to be

edpontiac91 · 03-20-2008, 10:53 PM

Just found out from the owners son at Miller Pontiac(in Woodbridge)that they are getting all of "14" of them for the ENTIRE model year, plus they can't even order what they want, they will just get what the factory will send them. Another BULLSIT production problem with the factory saying(HUGE WHINE HERE)we just can't build enough. What that says to the public is "GET READY TO PAY UP THE GAZZOO BECAUSE WE WILL ONLY BE GETTING A FEW"!

BonzoHansen · 03-20-2008, 11:11 PM

Well, you see, the domestic car makers finally figured out the concept of supply & demand that every other company already knows. If you flood the market with supply, the price drops. "Build it & hope" manufacturing is part of the reason the big 3 got in this mess and why the US market is addicted to rebates & discounts.

Now couple that with a sagging economy & high gas prices. Just go see your local Chevy dealer and look at all the trucks they can't sell now, even with ridiculous price cuts. Plus all those trucks sitting there cost them more $$ every day in the form of carrying costs. So big supply = less margin & increased carrying costs. Hmm, maybe GM shouldn't flood the current market with V8 cars right now.

Let me know if you know someone who wants to actually buy a G8 and can't find one. Not just a tire-kicking gawker like me.

Mike · 03-21-2008, 12:30 AM

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The G8 is the new 4 door version of the grand prix, rwd, and lots of pwer

dont make things up, its not and never was or intended to be a "version of the grand prix"

if you even want to compare it to an older pontiac, it would me more like a bonniville, or a 4 door version of the GTO....but its not, its a new car

Mike · 03-21-2008, 12:32 AM

im actually thinking of selling the bird and trading the truck in for one....

slugger27nj · 03-21-2008, 07:01 AM

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Just found out from the owners son at Miller Pontiac(in Woodbridge)that they are getting all of "14" of them for the ENTIRE model year

Yeah, I was at Freehold Pontiac a couple weeks ago and they're only getting 12.

DaSkinnyGuy · 03-21-2008, 07:45 AM

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dont make things up, its not and never was or intended to be a "version of the grand prix"

if you even want to compare it to an older pontiac, it would me more like a bonniville, or a 4 door version of the GTO....but its not, its a new car

But I am not making things up, the G5 was to replace the sunfire, the G6 to replace the grand am, and the G8 is a replacement of the grand prix, the only thing is they figured while we replace this lets improve it to compete with other cars. The grand prix was orginally a rwd car then it went to fwd and now it is back to rwd. The bonniville does not have a replacement. Yes the front end of the G8 is mostly a GTO. Yes its a newer car all around, yes its the size of a bonniville, but pontiac had to put a car in replacement of the grand prix.

LS1Hawk · 03-21-2008, 07:54 AM

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But I am not making things up, the G5 was to replace the sunfire, the G6 to replace the grand am, and the G8 is a replacement of the grand prix, the only thing is they figured while we replace this lets improve it to compete with other cars.

Actually, the G5 was never intended for production. The only reason Pontiac got it was because the dealers squawked about the Chevy getting the Cobalt, and Pontiac salesmen not having anything to offer the entry-level buyer. Yes, G6 and G8 have taken over the spots of the Grand Am and Grand Prix, but they are completely new cars.