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We love the idea of the 2010 Pontiac G8 El Camino , this much goes without saying, but there's been a lot of hemming and hawing about the long term viability of the product from a business perspective. Motor City Blog Man Todd Lassa has a theory on the General's strategy and it kind of makes sense to us. Remember when we all went a little batty at the prospect of a G8 Wagon and then it got canned — kind of? Well Todd got to thinking about the wagon and the El Camino, and mixed in a little marketing strategy from GM's cross town rivals at Ford and came up with an idea: What if the G8 El Camino was simply a Pontiac G8 variant, like Mustangs Bullitt and the California Special? Albeit on a more complex, but still platform produced scale. GM let everybody who wants one get a copy during a couple years of production, then phase it out when demand falls only to introduce a new variant — the G8 wagon. We see this as a brilliant theory, but we have some ideas to add here...
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With the reveal of the new arrow-headed El Camino just moments away, we wanted to show off what we'll be tossing out as a gift to our media friends here at the GM press conference at the New York Auto Show. Yes, get one now -- or wait until it ends up on EBay as the swag-watch of show. That's right folks -- head on over to our original post and vote today -- El Camino all the way! [ Vote El Camino ]
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