2010 Pontiac G8 Manual

Looks amazing man! Really mint pickup!

I love that colour...Black rims would set it off!

2 Ve's? Lucky man!

 

Very nice, liking the colour.
Didn't take you long to have it in bits, did it?

 

Herbie, I'll be honest, you seem to have been to-ing and fro-ing about what car to get for a few weeks and I was wondering if it would happen at all. But you finally bit the bullet and I think you made the right decision! :spot on:
That is a beautiful colour, and the sub installation is awesome. Whoever did that is a damn genius.
After owing my Voodoo blue G8 ute for a couple of months, I'm really getting sick of those orange reflectors on the bumper and considering painting them, but on yours those front bumper reflectors really blend in with the colour nicely.

Only thing, I could have sworn the SSV spec. edition G8's were only 2009? Did someone just pay for the upgrade kit with this one?

Either way, who cares. If I hadn't been set on getting a ute, I totally would have outbid you for this sedan.

 

I'm not trying to sh** on your parade, and I will admit I knew nothing about Holden's before I bought mine recently, but aren't the Holden SSV G8's meant to come with the Pontiac rear diffuser as well? Or is it just the front end?
I've got a ute, so obviously the rear was straight up Holden parts. But either way I only wanted the G8 front end. I love the SS front, but it seems like every 10th car is a VE SS these days, so I wanted something different.
Oh, btw, you should put HID's in those reflector headlights. They look amazing on my ute, I've never been flashed by oncoming traffic for having bright headlights, and I've never once used the high beams yet. They are awesome.
edit: now I'm confused because I see some G8's with solid plastic diffusers, and some with the mesh like yours. I am admitting I know nothing of commodores. (apart from loving my own one :driving

 

Real nice...!

I wish you had the Red and Black seats like I have on my GT.

In the US the plain G8 is the V6
The 6.0 was only Automatic. Some came with Sunroof, others with Red/Black seats, some with 19in or 18in wheels.
The GXP has the Corvette engine (6.2L LS3) and had a choice of Auto or Manual. Also had different rear gearing, different rims, Brembo brakes, suspesion and of course GXP logos and crap of that nature.

The other was the SLP modified and called the Firehawk that was a modified GT.
I believe they were some GXPs as well.

One of the most annoying things in the Auto transmission is the Shifter.

Who in their stupid mind decided to change the Manual Mode from Pulling + and Push - (Holden version) to Pulling - and Push + (on Pontiac version) :bang:

Is so counter intuitive.

Bough the Aussie Shifter and is in my garage waiting to be installed. Pitched the idea few years back in the G8 Board forum and some members already done it.
They report that is way better than the US version and works wonders as I was suspecting

 

And? You keep the standard globes, change them back to get passed for a RWC and then revert to HID. I've changed wheels, removed & then re-applied tint and switched back to stock exhausts(all temporarily) to get passed after a defect. Consider it a necessary cost of owning an awesome car. (the fine that is)

You know you want to..... oke:
Btw: the HID headlights aren't really very blinding for oncoming traffic because they are so focused. Foglights or highbeams are probably annoying as F for others though.

 

Just to clarify. It's NOT a Pontiac G8. It's a Holden SSV Special Edition using obsolete Pontiac parts.

The ONLY reason Holden released such an ugly beast in Australia is because they were stuck with shed loads of ready made Pontiac parts after the export program for Pontiac was canned when Pontiac went bust. So they slapped them onto local cars and called them "special editions" hoping there'd be plenty of people that'd fall for it. And there were.

 

For me I like the bonnet and bottom wide grill.
Nice ride.

 

Looks good!