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mo_focus,Apr 23 2009, 07:48 PM Wrote:Pointiac should just bring the Aussie cars over. Like the G8 and GTO. they have lot more options over there.

They could have done that easily. Keep the brand name, bring cars over. Just like how saturn is Opel of europe, pontiac could have been the GM of Aussie. Ohh well. :(
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Yeah they could ... but there's a real cost to keeping a brand alive - and just like the Mercury brand in Canada had to go to help Ford here reduce costs - same with Pontiac ... there's a whole sales and marketing organization that can now be made redundant, not to mention the engineering and design types dedicated to making the Pontiac brand different than the other GM brands --- and then there's the advertising, marketing and promotion budgets that can be done away with.

The thing is that any of the current Pontiac models could easily be rolled into one of the remaining GM brands if they wanted to ... personally I think the G8 would do just as well in the Chevy or even Cadillac lineup.