Pontiac G8 versus BMW 5 Series, revisited

Originally published at Kinderism.net. You can comment here or there.

Yeah, it’s been a while, I have more posts coming, I just wanted to toss this tidbit up there.

I played the demo for that Wheelman game recently, the one where Pontiac paid bundles to have the “official” car in the game be a G8, even though they are begging for taxpayer money to keep the company running.

But that’s another rant.

Anyway, the car in the game sucks. Bodyroll to the heavens, can’t hold a corner worth a shit, and the rear end looks like the rear of a Civic you would find deep in the Valley. As I previously wrote, Pontiac had this cute campaign going after the BMW 5 series, saying that the G8 was superior.

If they wanted an even more stupid comparison, they should have attacked the BMW 330 for not being able to do 0-60 as fast as their precious G8. Nevermind that the 330 has about 200 less horsepower, it’s all about the marketing angle right?

So, I posted up another comment on the Youtube video for the 5 versus 8 commercial:

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Ok let me get this straight… Pontiac creates a 6.2L engine that is only capable of getting ~400HP, and a car that can only pull a 0.9 on the skidpad. ( Protip: To the ones saying “This is better than a Mustang” the Mustang gets .87-.88, so you’re right there with them ) The MSRP is $45,000

Then, they go after the stock 5 series?

You know what you can get for $45,000?

A 2005 BMW M5 with a 5L engine that gets 500HP ( Since the Germans know what the fuck they are doing ) and 0.99-1.1 on the skidpad.

And I don’t see BMW crying to their government for a handout either.

I’ve gotten quite a few flames so far, one from “buyamericanyounazis”. This is the average intelligence of the Pontiac G8 fanbase: they would rather spend $45k on yet another crappy American sedan/coupe that can’t hold it’s own against other cars in it’s class, than buy a superior sports car ( or even sedan, the M5 SEDAN gets better times than the G8 coupe ) just because it’s BY GOD AMERICAN ( built in Australia ).

Even better, if we’re not counting price range, for $70k you can get a BMW M3 with an even SMALLER engine that STILL gets more horsepower than the G8.

Maybe they should use that bailout money to hire better engineers, rather than starting a pissing match against another car company that can kick the shit out of you.