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Originally Posted by Blacdout96
doesnt matter weither it was gonna come out or not, it was gonna flop anyways like the GTO and G8's.
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Originally Posted by NJNETSFAN
I just looked up some production numbers, and the G8 barely sold 12K units. Let's see, the f-body was canned at what? when production was 40K a year?(98 camaros had a production number of 50K for the new model year). I really thought the G8 was selling better than 12K. It's gonna take a while for GM to make any kind of money on that car with numbers like that for the first year.
Btw, the Gto actually outsold the G8 when comparing the first year sales. 15K to 12K. So I don't think it's looking to good for the G8 especially with GM's money problems.
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Comparing G8's sales numbers vs anything else from GM past or present is silly. The G8 is imported at low numbers, not built here in any NA plant.
GM actually makes a ton of money off of it since the 12k G8's sold here is a massive number when you factor in that the plant that makes them is built to make 80k of them a year for world wide production. More then half of Commodore sales aer outside Oz.
Only major cost GM has to worry about is shipping.
G8 has a few factors going against it right now, vs the GTO, but in no way a flop.
The 4th gen was a flop cause it was supposed to sell 150k units a year.
The "G3" was another car to appease the dealer network who wanted an gas sipping econo car on thier lots.
Problem is that the G5 XFE gets better gas milage then the G3...stupid dealers
Thats strike 2 for PBG dealers.