 By December 2008, the rear wheel drive G8 had not become the expected sales replacement for the previous front-drive models, with 11,000 unsold G8s in the inventory and just 13,000 sold.During the 2009 global economic downturn, market prices had dropped by $3000–5000 below GM's sticker price for the car.By July 2009, there were only 5,000 unsold G8s in inventory, with almost 30,700 sold.