My buddy who has inside connections just gave me a heads up a few days ago. Supposedly it will be stateside by 2012 and will be very similar to the coupe 60 concept we have seen, I will pass along some more details when i get them.
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Sweet!

What day is it?

April 1st.

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=125393

And it will have the LS9 and AWD. It will also come equipped with an inflatable hooker. And it will sell for under 30K

Nice Try. Thanks, but I've already been nailed today. And DB, tell your buddy to tell his sisters boyfriends uncle that we will believe it when Lutz drives it out on the carshow floor in NYC.

GM won't build it, it would make too much sense. The stockholders should make the GM execs watch the movie "Field of Dreams" "If you build it, they will come."

My buddy who has inside connections just gave me a heads up a few days ago. Supposedly it will be stateside by 2012 and will be very similar to the coupe 60 concept we have seen, I will pass along some more details when i get them.
:bubbrubb::drool::yumyum:

I hate you. I want you to know that. I got all excited then I realized it was April 1st and that this wasn't true.

:attachment: BAN HIM!!!!

http://www.leftlanenews.com/pontiac-mulling-over-g8-gxp-coupe.html#more-6956

They say its a 50/50 toss up as to weather it would be built... I'd buy it!!!

~LSx

-and a convertible version by 2013 :)

http://www.leftlanenews.com/pontiac-mulling-over-g8-gxp-coupe.html#more-6956

They say its a 50/50 toss up as to weather it would be built... I'd buy it!!!

~LSx

Like in "No COuntry For Old Men" that coin will arrive at the same time as the coupe. I said, call it..................

And when you tug on my leg, my balls play Jingle Bells...

Holden will create a coupe.

GM won't sell it because of CAFE.

And the world turns.

just enough time to enjoy a new gxp for a few years before deciding to upgrade :)

G8 SW (Station Wagon) in 2011. G8 SW GXP in 2014 (right after the convertible).

2012, waaaay too late.

http://a332.g.akamai.net/f/332/936/12h/www.edmunds.com//media/il/news/2008/0331/pontiac.g8.coupe.concept.r34.500.jpg

http://a332.g.akamai.net/f/332/936/12h/www.edmunds.com//media/il/news/2008/0331/pontiac.g8.coupe.concept.f34.500.jpg

http://a332.g.akamai.net/f/332/936/12h/www.edmunds.com//media/il/news/2008/0331/pontiac.g8.coupe.concept.act.f34.500.jpg

Scrap the "B" pillar, and drop the top, like the G6.

Today's published reports from down under still say the coupe and any version of it are on hold for immediate future:

http://www.mellor.net/mellor/mellorweb.nsf/weben/GoAuto%20e-News

Business case for reborn
Monaro on hold as GM
tackles greener pastures
Coupe 60 stalls

By JAMES STANFORD
GENERAL Motors seems unlikely to even
look at a business case to put Holden’s stunning
new-generation Monaro – the Coupe 60 – into
production because it is concentrating on green
vehicles that will help it comply with looming
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE)
standards in the United States.
The American auto giant’s global productvice
president Bob Lutz said at the New York
auto show last month that work had stopped
on the next-generation C7 Corvette to enable
the company to develop more environmentally
friendly technology.
He also said there was no way work could
begin on any Coupe 60-style project in the
meantime.
“The problem with it is that it is one of those
projects like the Corvette C7 has got to be
put on the backburner as we wrestle with this
whole fuel economy equation,” Mr Lutz said.
“We are going to be inventing so many
hybrid systems for so many vehicles and going
to transmissions with a lot more gears than
six, all in the name of meeting fuel economy
targets, and then what has to be deferred is the
stuff that we, as enthusiasts, would all like to
do, like that Coupe and the C7 before that.”
The GM position is a heavy blow to the
Coupe 60 project as Holden cannot complete
the project by itself. GM Holden president
Mark Reuss told GoAuto when the Coupe 60
was presented at the Melbourne International
Motor Show in March that the company would
need a substantial amount of volume to come
from exports for it to work.
When asked at the New York show about the
Coupe 60, GM’s general manager for Pontiac,
Buick and GMC Jim Bunnell said: “It will take
both of us to make a business case for that one.”
When pushed on the subject, Mr Bunnell
said that the VE architecture might be too old
for a Coupe 60-style program by the time the
company was in the position to proceed.
“You wouldn’t invest a lot of money on your
current architecture base. If you were going to
do it, you would wait for the next one,” he said.
“But never say never.”
Mr Bunnell said the sleek concept car had
certainly grabbed the attention of both fans
and GM-brand dealers in the US. “It certainly
generated a lot of interest. We had dealers call
us and say, ‘That is the car, let’s do it.’” He said
one enthusiastic dealer even used a graphic
design program to put a Pontiac nose on the
Coupe 60 concept car to show how good the
model might look.
While the Coupe 60 and the next-generation
Corvette projects have been placed on the
backburner, the Cadillac CTS Coupe is going
ahead. Mr Lutz confi rmed in New York that the
CTS Coupe, fi rst shown in concept form at the
Detroit auto show last January, will come to
Australia to join the CTS sedan.
“It makes sense,” said Mr Lutz, who did not
comment on when it may arrive.

dude those photoshops are hawt

WOOHOO! I want one now!

That's a thing of beauty, too bad it probably won't make it pass the new proposed CAFE standards to make it here.

CAFE is a joke..... Thanks government for yet again screwing something else up. There are a lot of bigger pollutors than the auto industry, this one just stands out more.

Back on topic: I would buy it if they produced it. As of right now though a GXP G8 Sedan is in the works for me but I would wait for the coupe if I had 100% confirmation.

CAFE is a joke..... Thanks government for yet again screwing something else up. There are a lot of bigger pollutors than the auto industry, this one just stands out more.

Back on topic: I would buy it if they produced it. As of right now though a GXP G8 Sedan is in the works for me but I would wait for the coupe if I had 100% confirmation.

Corporate Average Fuel Economy has nothing to do with pollution. It's in response to gas prices. No. it doesnt make too much sense, but it' the only way government knows how to address problems.

just enough time to enjoy a new gxp for a few years before deciding to upgrade :)

I doubt any 2012 car will be an upgrade over an 08 or 09. By 2012 these cars will be choked down to about 200 HP to try to get the mileage up, just like they did in the early 80's. You'll be trying to get your hands on an '08 if you don't already have one..... longing for those "muscle car days"!!

I'll never forget my first day in Drivers Ed in 1984 driving a Brand New Monte Carlo. That baby had a whopping 125 HP coming out of its V6. You could pull out in traffic only if you had enough time to recite the alphabet backwards before the next car passed.

Corporate Average Fuel Economy has nothing to do with pollution. It's in response to gas prices. No. it doesnt make too much sense, but it' the only way government knows how to address problems.

That's what I meant I just said it wrong. :embarrassed:

It is such a shame though. If people wanted more fuel efficient cars, then the market would demand it and auto makers would want to build it. The government should not be allowed to tell me what kind of car I should buy. Let the market decide!