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It seems as if people forget that when you pull a new Acura TL & Honda Accord side by side that they are in fact the exact same car with a different rear & front fascia, same goes for the Camry & the Lexus 300. Yet when GM did the same thing they got scrutinized for it. Go figure. Yes GM's rebadged mini vans are a disgrace as was the better looking twin of the Cobalt, the G5. I do think that GM pulled the plug on Pontiac at the wrong time. The brand should've become the niche brands with aggressive good looking high performance models only. The G8 had lots of potential that Gm cut short, The Trans Am or GTO could have been reborn, GTO being a sleek two door G8 or the TA being built off the Camaro platform with it's own body design that didn't say rebadged Camaro at all. Then there's the Soltice that was in it's own right a good looking compact roadster. They could've given it a year or two longer in it's body design before re doing it to go head to head with the Z4. They could have even built a more compact version of the G8 that would've made the new G6. Pontiac's branding with being more refined Chevy was over, but it could've survived IMO by going in a completely whole new direction with the G8 leading the way. Who would've thought that Caddliac would go from being an elderly people's car company to sporty American luxury Mercede's Benz fighter in 10 years? On the other hand Buick should have become GM's brand in China & killed it in America.
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