KickingTires (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Yesterday, Cars.com attended a press event featuring the new Pontiac G8 Sport Truck. If you recall, Pontiac asked consumers to name the new model. Names came flooding in, and the company is now down to 10 finalists, and they're going...
Driive (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Filed under: Trucks/Pickups , Etc. , GM , Pontiac It comes as little surprise, but Cars.com has all but confirmed that the "El Camino" moniker has been nixed as a potential name of the new G8 Sport Truck. The site reports from a recent media event that a Pontiac spokesperson said that there was internal strife regarding use of the Chevy-associated nameplate on a Pontiac vehicle. Frankly, we agree...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Friend, Romans, Cotomer Sevis Representatives, lend me your ears; I come to bury the El Camino badge , not to praise it. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their frames; so let it be with the El Camino . The noble Bob Lutz hath told you El Camino hath instant name recognition , if it were so, it was a grievous fault, and grievously hath Lutz answer'd it. Here, under...
