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GM Saying the Pontiac is Going Bye- Bye!
Detroit, MI (AP) -- Say goodbye to the Pontiac.
GM decided to kill the 84-year-old brand last year as the company collapsed into bankruptcy. Today is the day GM's agreements with Pontiac dealers expire.
Americans remember the muscle cars that drag-raced along boulevards and parked at drive-ins. In its heydey, Pontiac was known for models like the GTO, Trans Am and Catalina 2+2, packed with horsepower, in colors like "Tiger Gold."
But the brand became the victim of poor corporate strategy and changing driver tastes. Even before GM's bankruptcy, Pontiac sales had fallen from their peak of nearly a million in 1968. By 2008, Pontiac sales were down to about a quarter of a million.
Retired GM exec Bill Hoglund, who led Pontiac in the 1980s, blames a reorganization that cut costs by combining Pontiac's operations with those of other GM brands.
Detroit, MI (AP) -- Say goodbye to the Pontiac.
GM decided to kill the 84-year-old brand last year as the company collapsed into bankruptcy. Today is the day GM's agreements with Pontiac dealers expire.
Americans remember the muscle cars that drag-raced along boulevards and parked at drive-ins. In its heydey, Pontiac was known for models like the GTO, Trans Am and Catalina 2+2, packed with horsepower, in colors like "Tiger Gold."
But the brand became the victim of poor corporate strategy and changing driver tastes. Even before GM's bankruptcy, Pontiac sales had fallen from their peak of nearly a million in 1968. By 2008, Pontiac sales were down to about a quarter of a million.
Retired GM exec Bill Hoglund, who led Pontiac in the 1980s, blames a reorganization that cut costs by combining Pontiac's operations with those of other GM brands.
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BFD!
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When a business fails,.....it fails.
Going by that mantra GM should be history IMHO.
But now we have 'hope and change' so they got bailed out to pay back the unions.[xx(]
Free enterprise works fine if the Gub will stay out of it.
Pontiac had some really cool cars in the past - but then the brilliant minds at GM decided to put out crap like this:
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and the funny part is, this is the "improved" version of the Aztek[xx(]. The orginial was uglier, if that was possible.
Sad that good cars like the (new) GTO and G8 will no longer be available in the US (they were Austrailian GM/Holden vehicles).
The rest of the Pontiac line just wasn't that interesting or unique to survive.
Well enough to outrun local cops and highway patrol on one occassion.
How much cocaine do you need to snort to design something like this?I don't know, but whatever the amount, that must be the benchmark!
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!