Talk:Pontiac G8

message: This page should be merged with the Holden VE Commodore page
20:52 aest 29 december 2008  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.183.173.149 (talk) 09:52, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: merge

message: I own a G8 GT, and it does a 0-60 MPH in the low 5's, not 6.4s as shown on this page. Where is the source for this? I'v never seen anybody report anything in the mid 6's. Not to mention the 1/4 mile, I'v only seen less than 14s on the stock G8 GT. 
I'll make a change next week if there is no opposition to this, it looks bad on Pontiacs last muscle car to have these false numbers here.
:No, only add the revised number if it comes from a WP:RS, your car, with the most optimistic viewpoint for this assertion, might be non-representative. Greglocock (talk) 10:17, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: What I am saying is that the number shown is not credible. There is no current source. I am adding a source and correcting the stats.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.139.153.29 (talk) 15:33, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That's great thanks for finding a source. Greglocock (talk) 04:00, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  G8 GT 0-60 credibility 

message: "... it is GM's first coupe utility since the Chevrolet El Camino was discontinued in 1987." This is US-centric and incorrect: GM resurrected the coupe utility with the Holden Commodore VG ute in about 1989 and has been building this body style in Australia ever since. Grassynoel (talk) 08:27, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I edited that sentence so that it clearly only applies to North America. As long as it's clear, I don't see a problem with the page being NA-centric, since it is only sold as the G8 in North America. 99.247.211.44 (talk) 00:05, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  G8 ST 

message: its real information that the winner got a pontiac torrent gxp. IT was in my car and driver. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.162.122.128 (talk • contribs) 
Notability for this article needs to be established, and source noted. — fcsuper (How's That?, That's How!) (Exclusionistic Immediatist ) — 20:49, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  pontiac g8 st winner 

message: Current models are dubbed 2009.5, not 2009.  ...will find source — fcsuper (How's That?, That's How!) (Exclusionistic Immediatist ) — 23:44, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  2009.5 

message: If a calendar year production date is going to be given there has to be a citation for it. All that's here now is the day the first prototype cars were built, which isn't regular production. There needs to be a date for when the plant began building cars for general sale. --Sable232 (talk) 01:43, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Production start 

message: Curb weight is ambiguous, not specified for individual trim levels
99.62.79.222 (talk) 05:44, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weight 

message: what the defference in the G8 GT and  the G8 GXP exterior wise?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.157.206.221 (talk) 21:55, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  help 

message: I propose that Pontiac G8 be merged into Holden Commodore (VE). As the vehicles are the same.  Flow 234 (Nina) talk 10:42, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: Many references are old and no longer exist. I'm not a wikipedia expert, so no idea what templates the community uses on a page to flag it as such. cipher_nemo (talk) 16:31, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: For links that have gone dead, many of them can be fixed by finding them at  and adding the new links via  .  Stepho  talk  21:03, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  References on this page need updating for 2021 

message: A few months ago we had some differences about GMX557 being the platform code (which I was against). Recently it was added back in as the model code. It seems to be very rarely used by anybody except factory insiders - not even the fanboys use it. However, it is referenced in "The Complete Book of Pontiac GTO" https://books.google.com.au/books?id=zmeDDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA169&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false . My personal choice would be to leave it out due to rarity of use but I have no objection if others wish to leave it in.  Stepho  talk  01:57, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that for obscure codes like this it's fine to have them mentioned in prose where relevant, but they shouldn't be in the infobox. It's one thing when they're in common usage (e.g. Mercedes W-numbers or even VW type codes) but when they're as obscure as this one is, having it in the infobox is undue weight for such esoteric information. --Sable232 (talk) 02:26, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: That's how I feel, which is what I did. The usual IP then put it in the infobox as well. Should I remove it or give others time to weigh in?  Mr.choppers | ✎  03:11, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be nice to give the anon-ip a day or so to respond. I'm 50/50 for (after discussion) leaving/keeping it in the infobox.  Stepho  talk  03:23, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: At Template:Infobox automobile it states that "The name field states the brand and model name or brand and model series used in the original or primary market of the subject vehicle. The name appears at the top of the infobox outside the border. Generally, the data entered in this field will match the title of the article." To me that reads that the code does not belong in the infobox. And just because there may be other WP articles that include it, that is not a reason to do so here per WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. I am for removing it from the infobox and keeping it in the body of the article. Bahooka (talk) 05:11, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I fully support including model codes for cars for which these codes are popularly used. If we say W124, S14, R32, for instance, people instantly know what is being referred to. GMX557, however, is a rather obscure disambiguator - I would be in favor of keeping it if there were two generations, as it stands I am negatively agnostic on whether to include it (if that makes sense).  Mr.choppers | ✎  12:40, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Model code GMX557