Pontiac is dead, long live Pontiac

Surprised that nobody has brought this up, yet.

As of last night- Pontiac is offically dead. It's last day as an entity was Oct 31, 2010.

It can now be shown at orphan car shows.

sad, but reality bites, sometimes.

Eric

just when they were getting good too!

I was trying to find a good image of the arrowhead, but maybe this is more appropriate today.

I'll pat our 01 Grand Prix GT on the roof today.

So I went over to the Pontiac website. It is now mostly about warrenty service center locater and assessories.
Interestingly, at the bottom of the page is the Pontiac Match-up. You click on the Pontiac model that you are interested in and it provides a set of similar GM offers.
Click on the Solstice and it recommends: Camaro, Colbalt, Corvette.
http://www.pontiacmatchup.com/

How could "the excitement division" be dead?!?!?

Oh, right.

pinchvalve wrote: How could "the excitement division" be dead?!?!? Oh, right.

In before someone says that this is a great car.

/me removes tinfoil hat...

Pontiac ain't dead y'all. GM's gonna pull a sneaky and revive the brand when they have a little more liquid cash, and start shipping ALL the hot rod Holdens as ponchos. We'll see the Maloo, the Commodore, the Monaro.... just you wait.

/replaces tinfoil hat.

In reply to pinchvalve:

All least that Gran AM doesn't have the body cladding. . . .

Here's to Pontiac:

The New York Times ran a pretty accurate article on the demise of Pontiac the other day: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/business/30pontiac.html?src=twrhp

I'm with mndsm's response. I'd bet that the Pontiac brand will resurface. Don't know when, but it's too much of a known nameplate for them to just let it R.I.P forever...if they get the cash and the right product line.

Klayfish wrote: I'm with mndsm's response. I'd bet that the Pontiac brand will resurface. Don't know when, but it's too much of a known nameplate for them to just let it R.I.P forever...if they get the cash and the right product line.

Not to mention the fact that when GM started offloading brands, it was the ONLY one they refused to let go of.

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alfadriver wrote: Surprised that nobody has brought this up, yet. As of last night- Pontiac is offically dead. It's last day as an entity was Oct 31, 2010. It can now be shown at orphan car shows. sad, but reality bites, sometimes. Eric

Hehehehe -- see online name, avatar at left

mndsm wrote:

Klayfish wrote: I'm with mndsm's response. I'd bet that the Pontiac brand will resurface. Don't know when, but it's too much of a known nameplate for them to just let it R.I.P forever...if they get the cash and the right product line.

Not to mention the fact that when GM started offloading brands, it was the ONLY one they refused to let go of.

how I hope so.
Make it ALL RWD. market it to at the GMC truck dealers. Shift the Vette over to it (yes I know that is blasphemy to many) and make it the performance division it was becoming.

No need to shift the Vette- Chev needs a halo car to sell all them Cobalts. BUT- Pontaic would do well with revivals of things like the Trans Am- a PROPER reinterpretation of the GTO, and so on down the line. Holden already makes anything GOOD GM sells (outside of the 'vette) so getting the chassis should not be an issue. Let me tell you, if they were to revive it, and give me a Pontiac El Camino (based off the Maloo, known as the g8 ute at one point) I'd be waiting in line.

My thought in shifting the Vette is to leave chevy as what they were, the economy division. stuff for the middle class, chevy should go all FWD (except for trucks which is a different issue), put all the RWD performance stuff in the pontiac division. I am well aware that will never happen (camaro, cop cars). But to me makes sense.

Don't forget Saturn too, last day was the 31st. Now I am sitting here with nothing to do.

Arnie "the Farmer" Beswick is berkleying pissed.

Pontiac coming back? Never, ever, ever going to happen by GM. Costs way too much money to remarket the name, the brand, build a new image for it, define it in their lineup, get dealers to FRONT the money needed for a brand that the company killed, and, ask a 20-40 year old average person on the street (no one on this board counts, too informed) today to name a Pontiac car. ANY Pontiac car. Still waiting for an answer. That's why it'll never come back. With this board, aside from the occasional Trans Am, GTO, or parts interchange question, when was that brand's products discussed ? The two-seater Saturn clone was bashed to pieces a couple of days ago. MIATA!!! And with the CAFE requirements going up shortly, Pontiac will never return.

Agree with Strike_Zero above. I'm waiting for these to fall into the affordable category. 415 hp and 415 lb-ft!

There has been a black GTO sitting at the local GM lot for almost a year now. Last I checked they wanted $10k for it. If it wasn't an automatic I would see what they wanted now, and talk them down more.

Now is the time to be buying all the NOS (sic) current items that will be sought after for Pontiacs, and put them aside for 5-10 years--those of you with money and and warehouse room. Like GTO insignias, parts, dealer brochures and literature, manuals....may seem like war profitereering, but, just wait.