"The body stretches out over the wheels," said Tim Kozub, the G6 exterior designer. "The overhangs are short, a contemporary architecture that provides great interior space." Putting the wheels on the outside of the car's corners gives the G6 a purposeful stance. "It's very wheel-oriented," Kozub continued. "The wheel flares speak to road performance."
Since most of the time spent with a car happens on its inside, Pontiac made sure its new G6 was 'built for drivers'. "You have the car at the ends of your fingers," stated Ryan Vaughn, G6 interior designer. "You are morphed into the vehicle. Your body senses every turn and acceleration through the seats the second you grab the leather-wrapped steering wheel."
Vaughn has a point. The interior is cockpit-like and intimately styled, to his credit. Gone are the bulbous gray buttons and organically shaped plastic bits in current Pontiacs replaced by a technically sophisticated array of titanium metallic surfaces surrounding by a dark gray and deep maroon color scheme.
"Titanium doesn't stand out like aluminum, for example. It speaks to precision and power," Vaughn said.