A fun ride in a brand new Pontiac G8

Well, the cat is finally out of the bag and hopefully Dayzed50 is cool with this but here goes nothing...

Last week Dayzed50 recieved the call that his a href="/profile.php?member=Dayzed50&vehicle=6369">2008 Pontiac G8/a> was in and I have to say I was quite impressed with it.

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This thing is perfect with its 18’s, black on black look, sunroof and a badass LS6. The first thing I noticed about the car is how quite the car is under idle and cruise. The exhaust note is very tame and could be contributed to the Active Fuel Management (Displacement on Demand) system.

"This system allows the deactivation of four specially provisioned cylinders through the use of particular lifters, oil channels, and tolerances on the camshaft lobes of those four cylinders. The L76 can thus transition from a V-8 to a V-4 and back again, with nearly seamless precision all but unnoticed by the driver" GM a target="_blank" href="http://www.gmhightechperformance.com/features/0707gm_pontiac_g8/index.html">High Tech Performance/a>."

But once you are done enjoying the comfort of good gas mileage, low interior road noise, the smooth ride of a touring sedan and quite pipes just SMASH IT and unleash the 361hp and 385 ft/tq. Throttle response was excellent and the transition of the Active Fuel Management was seamless. The engine pulled steady through the hp and tq curves and the exhaust note was all American Muscle.

Since the G8 had 12 miles on the odometer it was not pulled to redline so we could not feel all its might. That was okay because it was also raining, after 3 days of blue sky, and wrecking the car was the last thing anyone wanted to happen.

Congrats Dayzed50 on a wonderful car! And all of us Autologger can agree on that is going to be a enjoyable commuter car, keep the dirty side down!