If Pontiac brand had survived, we would have seen the Holden Commodore underpinning a rip-roaring GTO. The plan was let slip in a column by Bob Lutz, a former senior exec at GM who was head of global product development at the time.
"We actually had a full-size clay model of what would have been the next GTO. It was essentially a two-door, four-passenger coupe that used the same architecture as the Pontiac G8 sedan," Lutz says in the Road & Track column.
That architecture, of course, was the VE Commodore, which Holden developed into the G8 for Pontiac -- just before the brand died in the GFC slump.
Following that, the G8 resurfaced here in Australia in the form of the VE Commodore SS V-Series Special Edition sedan, wagon and ute -- unveiled at the 2009 Deni Ute Muster -- and featuring the Pontiac front fascia and other cosmetic touches.
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