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What happens when you listen to your wife while playing Forza 3?

March 29, 2011 by · Leave a Comment

Easy, you end up with a pink race car. Good thing for me that I always use the in full screen racing view so I never actually see the car other than when it’s shown on the menu screens and what not.

Why did I go with a G8 you may ask? Well, I own one (a GT, not the bad ass GXP) and thought it would be cool to use as a race car for some of the events and to build up for fun.

On a side note, the Forza team did a good job rendering the interior of the car. The dashboard looks just like the real thing!

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2009 Pontiac G8 GXP

March 6, 2009 by ·

If only I had the money!  Two weeks ago I was at the annual Chicago auto show drooling at the cool cars there.  Being a G8 owner (I have a 2008 G8 GT), I had to go take a look at the new GXP.  If only it was in my price range…

No one can complain when there’s an LS3 V8 under the hood with a whopping 402-horsepower.  When compared with my car, they changed up the front fascia and rear diffuser, used bigger fog lamps, and added new side and rear badges to denote that the car is the GXP model.  This car also gets an optional 6-speed manual transmission that is not available on the GTs.

Performance wise, there’s no question that this car is a fast ass 4 door machine.  This car will blast off 0-60mph in 4.7 seconds, 0.6 faster than the GT.

In the car, another feature is available that us poor 2008 owners never had either, XM radio factory installed and ready to go if you use it.  Pricing isn’t set in stone, but I figure this car to come in around the $40K area, or about $8-$10K more than the GT.

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