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Of course the second design is what had everyone drooling when Pontiac was first axed. That is clearly the design direction they should go. Soooo sexy. Just loose the fake hood scoop. Seriously, keep it clean and classy GM.

Dragon, China loves Buick, so they can keep it there, but here in the U.S. it just won't get the volume and marketing it deserves. Almost no manufacturer has more than 2 brands in the U.S. market. Toyota has 3, and their third, Scion, just isn't doing well. You honestly don't need any more than a mainstream and luxury brand. GMC is profitable, but if they close up those profitable sales will go at least 90% over to Chevy. The vehicles are identical, so I can't imagine GM would lose those sales. Two very profitable, high volume brands is better than 3 weak and 1 strong brand with tons of overlap.

I don't see a huge market for large mainstream sedans. Sure in the luxury market such sedans make good flagships, but in the mainstream market most people just move up to an SUV or CUV if they need (or think they need, more often) more room than a bread-and-butter midsize sedan. I can't help but wonder if that market is so small that Toyota and Ford don't already have it supersaturated with their Avalon and Taurus.

Moving past the G8 but on the same article, Lutz said the CTS-V coupe was really appreciated by the automotive task force, and a CTS-V wagon isn't out of the question. My wife and I love wagons, and in the thread discussing what cars we'd buy if we had $1,000,000, the CTS-V wagon was one of my pics. Oh man, if that happens I'd give so much for that car. A CTS-V wagon and Camaro is pretty much my ideal garage.