{"id":16302,"date":"2009-07-12T10:23:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T17:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16302"},"modified":"2012-08-05T16:23:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T23:23:22","slug":"automobile-new-cars-report-pontiac-g8-to-live-on-as-the-chevy-caprice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16302","title":{"rendered":"Automobile New Cars &#8211; Report: Pontiac G8 to live on as the Chevy Caprice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Importing the Australian-market Holden Commodore to America as the Pontiac G8 was arguably one of the smarter moves GM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s management made with regard to the Pontiac<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position: relative; margin: 0px; width: 10px; float: none; height: 10px; top: 1px; left: 1px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.intellitxt.com\/ast\/adTypes\/mag-glass_10x10.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> brand. But with the demise of the division at hand, Americans are once again without a large rear-wheel-drive sedan from The General. Or maybe not. If Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has his way, the G8 will become the new Chevrolet Caprice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">GM previously stated it would not rebadge the G8 as a Chevy, but rumors about its revival surfaced just over a month ago. A renewed role for Lutz &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftlanenews.com\/chevrolet-caprice.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Importing the Australian-market Holden Commodore to America as the Pontiac G8 was arguably one of the smarter moves GM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s management made with regard to the Pontiac brand. But with the demise of the division at hand, Americans are once again without a large rear-wheel-drive sedan from The General. Or maybe not. If Vice Chairman Bob [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-new-automobile-products-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16302"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68016,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302\/revisions\/68016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}