| On April 27, 2009, GM announced they were ending | | | | series has remained close to the stock cars they're |
| the Pontiac brand. Often an also-ran in GM's lineup, | | | | based on, adding race engines, roll cages, and minor |
| the brand's lineup was built on rebadged vehicles | | | | aerodynamic tweeks. Like rally racing, the Supercars |
| from GM's other nameplates. Their swan song was a | | | | series' homologation rules require Holden to offer a |
| high power rear wheel drive sedan hearkening back | | | | certain number of road-legal vehicles for sale to the |
| to the Bonneville and Le Mans models that battled | | | | public. While the World Rally Championship has |
| with many other makes for supremacy in the muscle | | | | brought us Mitsubishi Evos and Subaru Impreza STi's, |
| car era. Ironically, this modern rendition is also a | | | | Holden Special Vehicle (HSV) builds the Clubsport |
| rebadged vehicle: Australia's Holden Commodore. | | | | models for this purpose. The end result is a modern |
| While NASCAR has gone from modified street cars | | | | rear wheel drive car powered by GM's legendary |
| to race-spec vehicles, Australia's V8 Supercars race | | | | small block V8. |