Well sumbitch.... Bought a 1974 MGB...a few years later MG folded. Bought a 1974 Vega...model was discontinued. Bought a 1984 Celebrity....model soon dropped. Bought a 1991 Cavalier..those died too. Bought a 2000 Oldsmobile...Olds folded in 2004 Bought a 2000 Jeep Cherokee...model was axed. Bought a 2006 Pontiac G6....now it's over too. FML.
Why not ax it? I hate too, that an American icon is leaving but geez, every Pontiac car is rebranded from somewhere else and looks worse than the original. That includes the G8 (Holden Commodore) which actually is a really nice car.
Pontiac, GMC, Chrysler/Dodge (pick one) the other can stay, Mercury. Some of these car makers have made some nice cars in the past, but times have changed and they are not bringing enough to the table.
This succinctly explains why so many people in my generation buy Toyota/Honda/Nissan, despite growing up riding with Buick/Pontiac/Oldsmobile:
Pontiac's demise started in 1981 years ago, when Pontiac produced it's last Pontiac V8. During the 70's, Pontiac was the only car company that offered anything resembling performance. They had the superduty TAs, when the corvette had the 305 v8. Neither Chrysler, not Ford had any performance cars. The failure to Pontiac to live as the excitement division also suffered throughout the 80-90s. The lone exception was the 89 Turbo TA, Grand Prix GXP and maybe the Bonneville SSei. Today, with the exception of the G8 and Solitice, there's isn't anything in Pontiac worth saviing. Personally, I'd like to see Pontiac and a Holden brand in North America. Holden by far makes the most exciting cars of any GM division. The G8 GXP is going to be a huge collectible down the road. IMO, for the money the G8 GT is hands down the best 4-door car anyone cab by today.
My dad said that when he graduated OCS in the mid 1960's literally one third of his class went out and bought GTO's. They were THE performance car that all of the newly minted officers wanted to buy.
