GM Considered Buick for Holden Commodore Before Pontiac G8

Before Pontiac started selling rebadged Holden Commodores, GM looked at a different brand to market the Aussie muscle sedans.

  Car Talk, Autos   Dec 3, 2025   0   9  Add to Reading List
GM Considered Buick for Holden Commodore Before Pontiac G8

By the 2000s, General Motors' former Australian arm, Holden, had earned a reputation for building powerful, rear-drive machines with V8 engines based on the platform of its Commodore family sedan – something that didn’t escape the attention of Bob Lutz. The automotive heavyweight, famed for launching BMW’s M division and shaping icons like the Dodge Viper and Jeep Grand Cherokee when at Chrysler, took the reins as GM’s product chief in 2001 – and one of his first projects was to give Pontiac a true performance renaissance by rebadging some of Holden's hottest products.

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