Is the new G8 worthy of Firehawk title?

[raynor139]

http://wot.motortrend.com/6439658/af...ame/index.html

So i want to know how many of you guys out there think that the G8 is worthy of the Firehawk title?


My opinion is no. Firehawk started with the Firebird and should have ended with the Firebird. Just seems like SLP is just trying to cash in on the name now.

[ksstamp09]

http://wot.motortrend.com/6439658/af...ame/index.html

So i want to know how many of you guys out there think that the G8 is worthy of the Firehawk title?


My opinion is no. Firehawk started with the Firebird and should have ended with the Firebird. Just seems like SLP is just trying to cash in on the name now.

i agree, but just like the SS, it'll prolly end up on everything. cobalt ss? really? lol




EDIT: it looks good, but c'mon they could think of somethin original.

[hutch1999]

why not be original, it seems everything is reused today

[raynor139]

Its a nice car and I would love to have one but it just seems like they have no originality and reuse the name on a car that has no lineage to that name other then the Pontiac name and the fact that it is using a LS series engine.

[TempleU_WS6]

Firehawk/Firebird. Makes sense.

Give the G8 something different.

[hutch1999]

G8 kr

[cammed goat]

We had a similar discussion on another forum and I voted NO. The FIREHAWK name belongs on the Firebird due to the fact that the HAWK is a type of bird, like PHOENIX, SCREAMIN CHICKEN, FIRE CHICKEN. To give the G8 the Firehawk monicker, IMO, is a complete bastardization. There is absolutely no meaning whatsoever. No "spirit". And what if the Firebird does, in fact, rises again? Would be redundant, dont ya think? A G8 AND a Firebird Firehawk? NO!

Call the G8 FIRESTORM rather than FIREHAWK.

SLP...YOU BETTER READ THIS!!!

[ksstamp09]

We had a similar discussion on another forum and I voted NO. The FIREHAWK name belongs on the Firebird due to the fact that the HAWK is a type of bird, like PHOENIX, SCREAMIN CHICKEN, FIRE CHICKEN. To give the G8 the Firehawk monicker, IMO, is a complete bastardization. There is absolutely no meaning whatsoever. No "spirit". And what if the Firebird does, in fact, rises again? Would be redundant, dont ya think? A G8 AND a Firebird Firehawk? NO!

Call the G8 FIRESTORM rather than FIREHAWK.

SLP...YOU BETTER READ THIS!!!

i like that

[Krazydan]

60 K??? why noy just get a cts-v

[4get gto]

Firehawk should stay where it started.... Give the G8 another name. Would carry with the car too........

[Sarge]

Well this sorta goes down the path of the "new" GTO.
Yes I own a 2004 GTO.
Yes my first muscle was a 1965 GTO.
Yes I had other GTO's along the way.
Yes it pissed me off Pontiac/GM/Holden chose to call this car the GTO.
With that said....
The new GTO is a kick ass muscle car. But they shouldn't have called it the GTO. Call it anything but a GTO. Just like this Firehawk thing. Looks like a kick ass car and I'm glad as hell Pontiac is making us a kick ass 500HP car....but call it anything but the Firehawk./
Sorta like your favorite Dog..... Randy the Dog died. You don't go out and get another dog and name him Randy the Dog. You call him Rusty or Bowzer....anything but Randy the Dog.

[davered00ss]

There actually was a 1970's Pontiac "Boat" called the Firehawk before SLP ever did it to the T/A. Not sure what actual car it was. Guy at a local shop has one.

[Krazydan]

I agree sarge. It is a bad ass car. They should have called it something else

[Too Fast]

How about G8 Supercharged? Or G8 SLP? I agree, it should not be called Firehawk due to obvious connections with the Firehawk name with the Firebird.

[4get gto]

There actually was a 1970's Pontiac "Boat" called the Firehawk before SLP ever did it to the T/A. Not sure what actual car it was. Guy at a local shop has one.

Care to share the story ????

[cammed goat]

Well this sorta goes down the path of the "new" GTO.
Yes I own a 2004 GTO.
Yes my first muscle was a 1965 GTO.
Yes I had other GTO's along the way.
Yes it pissed me off Pontiac/GM/Holden chose to call this car the GTO.
With that said....
The new GTO is a kick ass muscle car. But they shouldn't have called it the GTO. Call it anything but a GTO. Just like this Firehawk thing. Looks like a kick ass car and I'm glad as hell Pontiac is making us a kick ass 500HP car....but call it anything but the Firehawk./
Sorta like your favorite Dog..... Randy the Dog died. You don't go out and get another dog and name him Randy the Dog. You call him Rusty or Bowzer....anything but Randy the Dog.

Well...there was an HSV GTO in Australia...so...the name DOES have some meaning.

See?
http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/Ar...rticleID=11024

And this one:
http://www.exoticcarsite.com/pages/h...coupe_2004.htm

[Spikito]

i didnt read that article but from what ive seen, theres the V6 model G8, then theres the G8 GT with a 360 hp L76, which is a detuned LS2, with better emissions, and the G8 GXP, dunno much about the motor, but its 415 hp

[PontiacFan]

There actually was a 1970's Pontiac "Boat" called the Firehawk before SLP ever did it to the T/A. Not sure what actual car it was. Guy at a local shop has one.

Care to share the story ????

No shit, ..., Explain.
I highly doubt the story is true, but I'll listen.

i didnt read that article but from what ive seen,

Maybe you had better read the article, ..., The original post is about the Firehawk option. Not OE G8's, ...

[FORD RECOVERY EXPERT]

I think it'd be alright... As long as they let the firebird die... It went out sexy, and with a bang... May it R.I.P...



But they could call it the GR8 1...



or,
G8500...

[TONYsHAWK]

Great now I will have to deal with idiots that will ask if those are just stickers from the G8.