Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Commodore coming to US as Pontiac

In the news: One of Australia’s biggest selling cars, the Holden Commodore is going to be made available in the US and that is according to General Motors’ worldwide head of product development Bob Lutz during a press conference held at the Detroit Motor Show. According to Mr. Lutz, "We are seriously planning to import a lot of Commodore SS sedans as Pontiac G8s.” He further added that if the price is right Holden could export up to 50,000 Commodores in the US. It was only after his speech that Mr. Lutz has realized that he has made a faux pas and quickly added, "We are yet to officially announce it….While (the Monaro's) export program may not have fulfilled all of our hopes and dreams in terms of profitability and volume, it did break the ice on global progr View the rest of this article


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