Its very interesting how Pontiac now names there cars, it is also perplexing as to how the names a secretivly attached code in a way that only Pontiac is supposed to understand. Well low and behold as you know nothing can stay secret in this country for long. Originally the G6 was to be called the G10. As you know the G stands for Grand as in Grand this or Grand that. The 6 is the code. As mention earlier it was to be call the G10and 10 being the code. When it first appeared on the drawing board the G10 was to was to be the car that America wanted, style performance and dependability. A car with 10 out of a
10 star rating. As the car slowly began to take form, the style changed, they took away this and took away that. What you ended up with is a plain car, gone was the original styling and performance. A 200 hp base model car cannot be called performance when others in its class are putting out 250+ hp. Pontiac soon realized that they had not built a car worth 10 out of 10 stars but more like 6 out of 10 stars, thus the name G6.