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Old 09-08-2008, 09:14 PM   #34 (permalink)
dracleath
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Re: 2009 Pontiac G8 GXP Power Bumped to 415hp/415ftlbs

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Originally Posted by TAMark View Post
The GP was selling way more than 25K per year. More like 90K. Granted, many of those were fleet sales. If you look at August sales the biggest factor in Pontiac's 34% decline from last August was the loss of all the GP sales. 9990 August 2007 versus 374 last month. G8 will never make up for lost GP sales.

If by many of those sales you mean 77%, then yeah many of the GP's sales were fleet sales. The G8 is specifically not a fleet sale car, and GM was aiming for sales that equalled the GP's to actual end customers, which was around 25,000. Which they are on target to hit or nearly hit for the first full year of availibility in a down year.

GM is dumping plenty of of other cars into fleets, you can be sure they're not missing those 60k or so Grand Prixs per year.
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