{"id":5277,"date":"2021-01-10T00:50:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5277"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:29:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:29:27","slug":"fritz-henderson-to-autoblog-chevy-caprice-is-being-looked-at-as-police-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5277","title":{"rendered":"Fritz Henderson to Autoblog: Chevy Caprice is being looked at as &#8220;police application&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/gm\/\">General Motors<\/a> announced this spring that it was killing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/pontiac\/\">Pontiac<\/a> brand as part of its restructuring, fans of the Holden-developed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/pontiac\/g8\/\">G8<\/a> sedan have been clamoring to save it as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/chevrolet\/\">Chevrolet<\/a>. After company officials repeatedly said over the past two months that no such thing would happen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/bob+lutz\/\">Bob Lutz<\/a> re-lit the fire last week in one of his first pronouncements after un-retiring. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/lutz\/\">Lutz<\/a> proclaimed that the G8 would indeed become a new Chevrolet Caprice.<\/p>\n<p>During our first drive of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/buick\/lacrosse\/\">Buick LaCrosse<\/a> this week, we had the opportunity on one of the legs to ride with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/gm\/\">GM<\/a> CEO Fritz Henderson, and we pressed him for more details on the Caprice plan. Unfortunately it turns out Henderson brought his portable fire extinguisher with him, telling us:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <em>We&#x27;ve been looking at it for police applications. As for whether or not it&#x27;s broader than police applications, I am not a believer in re-branding and re-badging. We&#x27;ve been talking about in terms of potential police applications and we&#x27;ll leave it at that.&#8221;<\/em>  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Henderson also threw a soaking wet blanket on the idea of adding production to Oshawa alongside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/chevrolet\/camaro\/\">Camaro<\/a>, saying that the cars will continue to be sourced from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/australia\/\">Australia<\/a>. So, for the moment, it looks like Zeta sedan fans will probably have to be content with taking a Blues Brothers approach to the problem: Buying their next car as a decommissioned black-and-white.<\/p>\n<p>[Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/pontiac+g8+police\/\">GoAuto<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/07\/15\/fritz-henderson-chevy-caprice-is-being-looked-at-as-police-app\/<\/p>\n<p>2009-07-15T09:28:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since General Motors announced this spring that it was killing the Pontiac brand as part of its restructuring, fans of the Holden-developed G8 sedan have been clamoring to save it as a Chevrolet. After company officials repeatedly said over the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10124,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions\/10124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}