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EDGEMAN
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Pontiac Should Have Been Great. GM Killed It Instead.

Having grown up in a "Pontiac family," I was POed when I heard GM decided to kill the brand. But what would Pontiac look like if it still existed today? According to Lutz, we’d all be driving around in supercharged sedans and sports cars, ripping clouds of white smoke at every stop sign and red light. With a sporty SUV or two, of course. "It would be a family of rear-wheel drive sedans," he says. "The Solstice would unquestionably still be around, just in a new generation. The G6 would still be around, probably a second-generation body off of the Cadillac Alpha architecture, and then—because sedans aren’t very popular anymore—the Holden-based sedans would probably be gone, and because Holden is gone too. And then there would probably be a couple, or three, high-performance Porsche Cayenne-style Sport utilities." What a dream that would be.
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Posted: 05/02/2024 at 01:32 PM ET

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EDGEMAN • 05/02/24 01:32 PM ET
Wide track Pontiac. I remember when that longgg hood Grand Prix came out.**
ACCWatcher • 05/03/24 07:51 PM ET
Liked Pontiacs. My dad had several. A '73 Ventura was my first car.**
MikeVT85 • 05/03/24 07:43 PM ET
Sheriff Buford T. Justice agrees
WuhBuh-DC_Hokie • 05/02/24 10:28 PM ET
Seem to recall they put the Trans Am hood scoop on the police cars too..lol**
EDGEMAN • 05/03/24 05:54 AM ET
I loved the sound of my mom's 68 GTO, that car could move.
4dhokies • 05/02/24 04:17 PM ET
My last car was a Pontiac Vibe GT
HokieDevil • 05/02/24 03:21 PM ET
Wasn't that a rebadged Toyota?**
EDGEMAN • 05/02/24 04:43 PM ET
It shared a platform with the Toyota Matrix
HokieDevil • 05/02/24 09:03 PM ET
I remember a "regular" one, and a "sporty one" with a more powerful engine
EDGEMAN • 05/03/24 05:45 AM ET
Yeah I had the GT
HokieDevil • 05/03/24 07:14 AM ET
My father was a Pontiac man. Over the years we had a Star Chief, Catalina,
scoop76cs • 05/02/24 03:07 PM ET
I get that GM needed to trim it's lineup a bit. It was definitely bloated.
Tafkam Hokie • 05/02/24 02:03 PM ET
That was my reasoning too. Buick should have been cut, since it was...
EDGEMAN • 05/02/24 04:42 PM ET
^^ This ^^
MAHokie69 • 05/02/24 02:21 PM ET
GM kinda killed Saturn with it's own incompetence.
Tafkam Hokie • 05/02/24 02:26 PM ET
Agree. Never understood keeping Buick and trying to change the brand..
Brewing_Hokie • 05/02/24 02:20 PM ET
If you remember the old movie Crazy People with Dudley Moore in the 80's
Tafkam Hokie • 05/02/24 02:22 PM ET
Buy a Volvo... They are boxy, but there are good.**
NokieHokie • 05/02/24 03:27 PM ET
My first car was a 1993 Pontiac Grand Prix.
Chris ColemanAdmin • 05/02/24 01:47 PM ET
My first car was a 1989 Buick LeSabre. It's a wonder I didn't become a 'hoo
MP4VT2004 • 05/02/24 04:17 PM ET
And you liked it so much that you bought a 2004 . . .
HokieKip • 05/02/24 03:46 PM ET
My '99 was my favorite car ever
HokieMacDaddy • 05/02/24 02:37 PM ET
And now a Google search makes me want this bad boy...
Chris ColemanAdmin • 05/02/24 01:55 PM ET
It's been so long since I had a car with an actual speedometer, I don't
HokieGator • 05/02/24 07:09 PM ET
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scoop76cs • 05/02/24 03:01 PM ET
Good looking car!**
GCHokieof91 • 05/02/24 02:04 PM ET
My 1966 Pontiac Bonneville "La Bamba" could handle 5 kegs in the trunk!
UTPr0sim • 05/02/24 01:49 PM ET
Lol. Yeah.
Chris ColemanAdmin • 05/02/24 01:50 PM ET
Here's a good picture. Mine was in Silver and got a solid 6 MPG. **
UTPr0sim • 05/02/24 01:54 PM ET
Grew up riding around in my folks 1968 Bonneville
HokiesChemicals • 05/02/24 02:16 PM ET
It's a beaut!**
Chris ColemanAdmin • 05/02/24 01:55 PM ET
To this day I love the original GOATS.**
Major Kong • 05/02/24 01:36 PM ET
With all the rebadging games they play what is the point in doing away
HokieDan95 • 05/02/24 01:35 PM ET
It would be beautiful to have one GM branch that sells RWD vehicles...
EDGEMAN • 05/02/24 01:46 PM ET