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10,000 names submitted for Pontiac G8 Sport Truck
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10,000. That's not a sticker price and it's not a production number. It's the number of submissions General Motors received for naming the Pontiac G8 Sport Truck. The contest opened up just a month ago, following Pontiac's unveiling of the concept car-ute at the New York Auto Show.
Granted, many of the names will be duplicates. And many of the names will be completely unusable, whether they're owned by other companies or just plain inappropriate. It'll take Pontiac a good long while to sift through them all, and while the carmaker won't reveal what names were submitted or which of them are being considered, a spokesman for the GM division did confirm El Camino was one of them, although it remains to be seen if GM can or will use a defunct Chevy name on a Pontiac vehicle. Meanwhile, although the public voice will be taken into consideration, Pontiac is safeguarding itself against an Alfa MiTo-type backtracking by noting that, in the end, the company's marketing gurus will have the last say.
Gallery: 2010 Pontiac G8 Sport Truck
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Horacio B. 9:07AM (4/22/2008)
Congratulations on Earth Day to Autobloggreen's staff members on your daily commitment to our Earth.
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Dude 9:49AM (4/22/2008)
FAIL
Zane 10:22AM (4/22/2008)
LOLOLOLOL
EPIC FAIL man!
Berto 11:07AM (4/22/2008)
WTF?
Menice 9:10AM (4/22/2008)
in spirit of El Camino.... El Pontiaco... or maybe El Gato.
too bad you know marketing geeks will have a dorky focus group pic some real bad name like Aztek.. oh wait..
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Derek 12:20PM (4/22/2008)
Pontiaco? Is that even a word?
At least El Camino (the road) made sense for a vehicle.
Menice 1:14PM (4/22/2008)
not that i know of.. but neither is G8. fyi..not knocking the camino... thats a classic, this i need some time to get used to, but it will probably sell well considering the only other competition i think of is the subie.
Dave 7:03PM (4/22/2008)
El Granprixo
kris 9:30AM (4/22/2008)
How 'bout the Mas Puto? That's more accurate
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Blake 9:59AM (4/22/2008)
+2
Disgruntled Goat 9:33AM (4/22/2008)
I heard they're going with El Feo.
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Homerrlb 9:35AM (4/22/2008)
What is the spanish word for useless?
EL ______ !
Keith Griffin 11:26AM (4/22/2008)
Echado is the Spanish word for useless.
So, it's the Pontiac Echado!
jurm 3:32PM (4/22/2008)
As I understand it, "echado" translates to 'thrown out.' "util" means useful, but off the top of my head I can't think of how to make it into useless; 'inutil' maybe. It's been a while since Spanish class.
StickShift 9:35AM (4/22/2008)
I don't care what name it is as long they give it a NAME not an alpha numeric catch phrase....which is probably what they'll throw at us. What happened to all the cool names?
My vote is for Safari btw
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John Starnes 9:38AM (4/22/2008)
Total mistake...if GM was going to resort to lame rebadging, they should have given it a Malibu-style nose clip and called this El Camino as history and heritage would warrant. But then again, how often does GM make corporate decisions aimed at genuine success in the market place?
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ColinToal 9:41AM (4/22/2008)
How about - The Pontiac "We should have done a wagon instead" ?
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Chris 9:54AM (4/22/2008)
Poor
Old
Nimwit
Thinks
Its
A
Chevy
jgp 11:20AM (4/22/2008)
Heh...a friend of mine had a similar one...replace "nitwit" with a much more offensive word, and replace "Chevy" with "Cadillac".
NOreasonY 9:46AM (4/22/2008)
NO! NO! wait !...wait! ...how about.....wait....why are they selling this here again?
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