Compared to Blazers and Tahoes, no they were not making very many beemers either.

 

The point, which seems to have escaped you, is that had Pontiac been building this car ten years ago perhaps they could have cut into the performance sedan market rather than let BMW, Mercedes, and the Japanese increase their market share to the point they completely dominated the class and still continue to do so today. It took Pontiac this long to come up with copy of a 3 series BMW? Because that's what the G8 styling looks like to me.

 

Most people that buy those cars buy them as a status symbol anyway, and just having something with a BMW or Mercedes emblem is all they are really after.

 

in aus these G8s(commodores) are responding good to just CAI, Exhaust, Tune