Pontiac G6

Pontiac G6

Introduction

Two-thirds of the 2009 Pontiac G6 is wonderful. The G6 snarls with its enormous grille and front end with monster admissions beneath the body-color guard. The pointed headlights clear internal, evading the pattern of head lights pushing out. The soak windshield includes a fresh detail: driving directly at you, the G6 looks clean and quick.

Anyway then there's that profile. Hack off the last third of the G6 and you've got a shocker, a sharp looking machine - everything up to where the car's second column closure is topnotch.

The model evaluated here is a 2009 G6, yet Pontiac as of late presented an invigorated G6 with outer surface and inner part updates, named the 2009.5 and marked the 2009 Pontiac G6 on Cars.com. Customers observe: The 2009.5 isn't altogether unique in relation to the 2009. Both variants will be sold in the meantime in view of cover from a huge unsold 2009 stock.

G6 vehicles are accessible in base, GT and execution GXP trim levels, while cars get GT and GXP trims and the convertible is accessible just as a GT. I drove a 2009 GT car. The vehicle was a rental with around 4,000 miles, which is short of what our general press vehicles normally have.

A four-barrel motor is accessible with a six-rate programmed transmission to expand efficiency. The G6 was likewise redesigned amidst the auto's model year.

Models and Features

Pontiac's lively medium size vehicle is available in the market as a roadster and a stylish convertible, and is way better than a lot of its rival cars. A GXP elite trim, accessible as a car or car, was added to the lineup in 2008.

Pontiac's redesigned form of its G6 moderate size auto gets new outer surface styling, more pleasant controls for the stereo and cooling frameworks, and restyled gages. Assigned a 2009.5 model, the redesigned G6 hits dealerships in January 2009. Contenders incorporate the Accord, Camry and Mazda6.

The G6 is the most flexible vehicle in Pontiac's lineup, arriving in an assortment of body shapes and trims. (There are six renditions of the G6, including the hardtop convertible. There are likewise four motor decisions extending from the 2.4-liter I-4 to a 3.9-liter V-6 (just accessible in the drop-top).

Options and Packages

Like different Pontiacs, the G6 cockpit has lively controls and hustling style gages with red LED backdrop illumination. The roadster and retractable-hardtop models have seating for four, however the car can seat up to five.

As a result of its moderately long wheelbase, the G6 vehicle guarantees bounteous rearward sitting arrangement legroom. The car's trunk measures 14 cubic feet — the car's and convertible's are somewhat more diminutive at 12 and 12.6 cubic feet, individually — yet the convertible's drops to 2.2 cubic feet when the top is down. Contending autos, for example, the Mazda6, Galant and Altima are not accessible as convertibles.

Based on a 112.3-inch wheelbase, each one body style has short shades and measures 189 inches in length general and 70.6 inches wide. The G6 is longer than the Mazda6 and Altima yet 2 inches shorter than the Galant. It's generally the same width as the Mazda6 and Altima yet 2 inches narrower than the Galant.

GXP models get their front- and backside outlines with new rocker moldings, double leaving fumes and cleaned stainless-steel grille traces. A Street Edition includes double hood scoops and an extraordinary back spoiler to the GXP.

Under the Hood

Generally as got the G6, temperatures began dropping in the Chicago range, making a chance to utilize the G6's winter-accommodating remote-begin characteristic. It works like any secondary selling remote begin, aside from its advantageously bundled into the plant key remote cushion. A press of the cushion and the auto will run for 10 minutes, with the high temperature and defroster on. Remote begin is an in addition to for any individual who needs to overcome cruel winters, and having it plant introduced like it is on the G6 is amazingly helpful. The gimmick is discretionary on build models and standard with respect to the GT and GXP.

The Monsoon stereo framework, which is standard on GT trims, gives conventional sound and a decent measure of bass, yet there's opportunity to get better in case you're a sound stickler. A discretionary Sun and Sound Package includes a six-plate CD changer and moon top.

The 2009.5 G6 will emphasize another gage group plan, in addition to GM's most recent focus control board, obtained from the Malibu.

The front-wheel-drive G6 is accessible with a decision of four motors: one four-chamber and three V-6s. The base 164-strength, 2.4-liter four-chamber is the most productive motor of the pack, with an EPA-evaluated 22/33 mpg city/parkway when matched with the six-pace programmed transmission.

The G6's six-chamber motor decisions incorporate a flex-fuel 219-hp, 3.5-liter V-6 (217 hp in convertibles); a 222-hp, 3.9-liter V-6; and a 252-hp, 3.6-liter V-6.

Fuel Economy

Efficiency is appraised at 17/26/20 mpg city/parkway/joined for the GT car, which is like both the 2009 Mazda6 V-6 (17/25/20) and the 2009 Ford Fusion V-6 (18/26/21).

GT models incorporate a mimicked manual transmission work that permits drivers to up- and downshift with a flick of the rigging selector, yet with just four riggings there isn't much enjoyable to be had. More often than not, the auto didn't even permit full control in manual mode, as it blocked movements if the motor wasn't in a foreordained rpm range. What's the point?

On other G6 trims, remarkable force trains incorporate a four-chamber with a six-pace programmed transmission in the Sport Package that is appraised at 33 mpg on the roadway, in addition to a higher-execution 3.6-liter V-6 in the GXP that makes 252 hp and is additionally mated to a six-velocity programmed.

Safety Ratings and Technology

Accessible wellbeing gimmicks incorporate electronically monitored slowing mechanisms, side-sway airbags for the front seats and side drapery airbags. An electronic solidness framework is noncompulsory.

The G6 earned a good evaluating in frontal accident tests by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, however simply worthy stamps in side tests and Marginal for back accidents. Two-thirds of the midsize cars IIHS tests — and many smaller ones — score Good in side impacts.