The global economic crisis has forced General Motors Corp. to cancel its plans to build 50 Cent-sponsored Pontiac G8 sport truck that was scheduled to go on sale this year.
Dealers were told today that the new Pontiac G8 Sport Truck, the car-pickup slated to hit the market later this year, has been killed, Pontiac spokesman Jim Hopson said.
“We always knew that it was going to be very low volume” vehicle, he said. “This would have been an extreme specialty vehicle. … From a long-term standpoint, especially with where the brand is moving, it just didn’t make sense.”
The new Sport Truck vehicle was unveiled last spring at the New York auto show.
The news comes just days after 50 Cent’s reality show, “50 Cent: The Money and the Power,” was dropped by MTV due to poor ratings. The rapper is currently gearing to for the February 3 release of his fourth studio album Before I Self-Destruct.
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