The Holden Commodore attracts its share of reckless hoons in Australia, and it evidently does the same in the US.
Footage shared by ATL Muscle shows three examples of the Pontiac G8 – the short-lived rebadged version of the Holden VE Commodore sold in North America – at an Alabama venue called H-Town, advertised as America’s biggest burnout/slide pit.
While it’s good to see hoons not clogging up streets, as they do with the all too common street takeovers in the US, this venue doesn’t appear to enforce any safety standards.
The video shows all three G8s sliding around as onlookers stand dangerously close to them.
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Passengers are also hanging out of the windows of all three sedans, in some cases with a leg swinging by the side of the car.
One of these passengers can be seen putting too much of his body out of the car, to the point where he’s hanging onto the inside of the G8 by his feet. He’s also seen dropping what appears to be a camera.
After another slide around the pit, he can be seen tumbling out of the car and then rolling on the ground.
To add insult to injury, his pants also slid down, leaving him presumably embarrassed and a little bit bruised while sitting on the pavement in his underwear in front of a crowd of onlookers.
Given he can be seen sitting up without difficulty, it appears he didn’t sustain any serious injuries… except to his pride, and possibly some of the property he dropped out of the window.
The Pontiac G8 was the second of four attempts by Holden to sell vehicles in the US via one of General Motors’ other brands.
Sold from model years 2008 to 2009, until bankruptcy proceedings forced GM to shutter the Pontiac division, the G8 came after the Pontiac GTO. This was a rebadged Holden Monaro, sold during model years 2004 to 2006.
After the G8’s demise, Holden exported the WM Caprice to the US, where it was sold as the Caprice PPV for law enforcement agencies from 2011 to 2017. The VF Commodore was also exported to the US, exclusively with V8 power, as the Chevrolet SS for model years 2014 to 2017.