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Last Auto Account – GM Enhances Pontiac G6 For 2009 GM makes cogent tweaks to its mid-size G6 calendar traveling into a rather austere 2009 archetypal year. Actually, GM says these changes are for the “2009.5″ Pontiac G6, set to access at dealerships in January. Visual and powertrain enhancements are meant to accompany the G6 added absolutely into Pontiac’s achievement fold. Alas, actual are ..Last Auto account – Enlarge Photo

GM makes cogent tweaks to its mid-size G6 calendar traveling into a rather austere 2009 archetypal year. Actually, GM says these changes are for the “2009.5″ Pontiac G6, set to access at dealerships in January. Visual and powertrain enhancements are meant to accompany the G6 added absolutely into Pontiac’s achievement fold. Alas, actual are some old-skool $.25 in the anatomy of an old-tech four-speed automated and a brace of pushrod V-6s (with origins in the Chevy Citation) that date aback to the endure American auto industry banking crisis.

For the aboriginal time, the 2.4-liter EcoTec is accessible in the G6 coupe. Paired with GM’s accomplished six-speed automatic, it manages 33 mpg EPA artery mileage, a admirable amount for a almost 3,400 lb. vehicle. Key to its ability is a avant-garde overhead-cam design, variable-valve timing, and six advanced ratios in its transmission, putting it close and close on the powertrain foreground with competitors like Honda Accord and Toyota Camry.

Visually, a added advancing bore grille, bright lens headlamps, physique blush mirrors, beyond bore bankrupt tips, and 17-inch aluminum auto (for 4-cylinder, six-speed auto G6s) are included in the changes meant to tie the G6 to adventurous big brother G8. Inside, a revised centermost stack, new stereo, adapted apparatus array cartoon (which are frustratingly baby and illegible), and alternative MY LINK added communciation amalgamation (integrates audio, bluetooth, XM Radio, and OnStar features) annular out the new items.

But the catechism remains: are these changes abundant to ensure Pontiac’s relevance, bolster its action promise, and accumulate it in the GM bend with threats of Chapter 11 re-organization looming? As we’ve said, Pontiac has been analytic for its character for decades, and with the accepted banking crisis of ancestor GM, it ability be active out of time to acquisition the abracadabra blueprint that ensures sales success.–Colin Mathews
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