Are these new GXPs selling well?
My local Pontiac dealer doesn't seem to have any. I do see two GTOs parked forever! The incentives now make a GXP priced about the same as a 3.5L V6 Chrysler 300.
I'm wondering if GM would have done well to take the $$$ put into this GXP development and instead put it into the development of a Pontiac version of the 2005 Cadillac STS RWD.
Actually keep this GXP chassis and styling, but keep the supercharged engine perhaps tweaked to 260hp with a Series III */C like the Grand Prix for MY 2004 and MY 2005. Then bring out a RWD/AWD Bonneville based on the 2005 Cadillac STS in 2006 with a RWD adapted 3900 series next gen. pushrod engine and detuned Northstar.
Just my thoughts...
I'm wondering if GM would have done well to take the $$$ put into this GXP development and instead put it into the development of a Pontiac version of the 2005 Cadillac STS RWD.
Actually keep this GXP chassis and styling, but keep the supercharged engine perhaps tweaked to 260hp with a Series III */C like the Grand Prix for MY 2004 and MY 2005. Then bring out a RWD/AWD Bonneville based on the 2005 Cadillac STS in 2006 with a RWD adapted 3900 series next gen. pushrod engine and detuned Northstar.
Just my thoughts...
i've only seen one on the road. Some lady in her late 30'*-early 40'*. It was the Pearl white -which was really cool, because I had just pulled out of the Pontiac dealer lot two blocks earlier and had looked at the white GXP they had sitting on their lot.
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No Goats in Canada to my knowledge... :(
And the only GXP I've seen was in the show room at a local dealership.
They don't expect to sell to many GXPs around here... they said their SSEi sales (in these parts) were horrible. :(
And the only GXP I've seen was in the show room at a local dealership.
They don't expect to sell to many GXPs around here... they said their SSEi sales (in these parts) were horrible. :(
Originally Posted by jwikoff99
I have only seen GXP'* at a dealership. My local dealership recently got rid of ALL their Bonny'* 6 weeks ago and hasn't got any more.
I think Pontiac as a division is in its lowest point for some years. I remember they had an exciting lineup with turbo Sunbirds, high hp for the time Quad 4 H.O. Grand Ams with stick shift, Trans Am GTA 5.7 and LT1/LS1 f-bodies, McClaren turbo Grand Prixs, and more.
Now they have a very dated Montana (8th year in production), Aztek, poorly received GTO, fizzling Bonneville sales, Sunfire, etc.
Bonneville sales are up 55% for June (2,777 in June '04 vs. 1,716 in June '03), and up 20% in the calendar year to date, which GM attributes partly due to GXP sales. GM'* sales numbers don't break out GXP sales versus the other Bonnes though.


