The reason the Parisenne came to America for 1983 was....
because in 1982 there was no full sized Pontiac available in America. The biggest Pontiac available in the 1982 US line up was the Bonneville G which was nothing more than the intermediate LeMans 4 door being renamed (the coupe version remained the Grand Prix). The CAFE requirement that was in vogue at the time was going to up the average MPG a car manufactures line had to reach on average and the only way Pontiac felt they could do that was to ax the full size Bonneville/Catalina series. If I am not mistaken the CAFE was either not raised or not as much as first planned so Pontiac then realized it could bring back the full sized line of cars again for 1983 (by then the recession caused by the 1979 energy crisis was easing and people were buying big cars again). Instead of renaming the intermediate cars again for the second time in as many years so they could call the full sized cars Bonneville again, Pontiac just decided to use the Canadian name Parisenne since the cars were gonna come from Canada anyway.....PAT COFFEY