Why Did GM Make FWD V8s?

Until recently, it seemed that General Motors always had a Front Wheel Drive car with a V8 in their lineup. After 1967, the Cadillac Eldorado had FWD, there's the more recent Monte Carlo and Impala SS. There's the Oldsmobile Toronado, the Cadillac STS and Allante, Buick LaCrosse Super, Oldsmobile Aurora, the 10th Gen. Pontiac Bonneville, …