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The only reason Pontiac should stay in business...
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The G8. Beautiful in person, and fast as hell with a 6-speed. Sure, it gets 15 mpg, but you can't have everything. They have one for sale at Costco for a little over $30,000. Hmmm....SmileWavy |
Its an Australian Holden HSV with Pontiac badges - we love them down here.
GM own Holden and have been shipping them to USA as an export for a while after Bob Lutz came for a visit and loved the local designed cars. The earlier two door GTO was also a Holden - then model we call the Monaro. Cars companies are going to need to have global models to survive - Honda, Mazda and Toyota worked that out years ago. Porsche, Mercedes and BMW have always been that way. Tim |
Funny you should post this. I've spent the last three days reading everything I could about them. I test drove a GT and was really impressed. Because the platform has been around overseas for several years there are a ton of upgrades for them and the engine is easily modified to over 500 RWHP. I will be getting a 6spd GXP and adding the full track ll pedders suspension package and Breyton GTS wheels. It will look like this, but will be a GXP because I have to have the 6 spd.
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GM will put in a front bench seat, soften the suspension, and rebadge it as a Buick. ;)
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Because there will always peoples to buy GM crap.
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Unfortunately Pontiac need more that one just model to stay in business.
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I can imagine Pontiac being absorbed into Chevrolet. Then Chev would have a few performance-oriented cars (new Camaro, Corvette, and G8), a number of starter or family cars (Aveo, Cobalt [actually its upcoming replacement], Malibu, and Impala), and their truck, SUVs and vans. Finally, they will have the Volt in 2010.
I think they can easily dump Pontiac and have a complete set of products to offer. I imagine they can even pare this down a bit and tweak their products to be better positioned for the future, if they have any corporate vision at their disposal. |
While totally impractical in many ways, the Solstice is a pretty cool car too.
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I thought it was a chick car.
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40k ? Looks like low 30's for a new one on Ebay and 20's for one with 16 miles,
Every car has depreciation, but it's horrid at GM. |
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Other then my 69 GTO, I havent owned a GM product for a long time. The last one I did own, actually was a decent car. I put 165K on it never had any problems. The Zeta platform is a proven chassis and this will probably prove to be the best Pontiac that GM "never" made. It's one of those cars that if you took all the badges off it, so it didn't say pontiac anywhere on it, People would like it. Unfortunately alot of people are blinded by the Blue and white Roundel (I say that having a 06 BMW sitting in the garage right now. Wifes car.) and for various reasons wouldn't ever consider and american product besides a truck. I test drove it because I was curious about how well it drove. The one I drove was a GT with 360+ horsepower. I couldn't believe how well the car drove and was impressed with the room inside. And it was less then 30K. Honestly, if the GT came with a manual, I would buy that. Was it has good overall as a 70K BMW, perfomance wise yep. Does it have all the bells and whistles of the BMW, nope, but I really don't care about 40K in bells and whistles. |
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The GXP with the LS3, 400 horsepower and brembo brakes isn't out intil the first of the year. Right now there is the GT with a L76 and automatic. They can be had new for less then 30K if you shop around. |
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I'd bet money that the Pontiac will be just as much fun as the BMW, more reliable, and cheaper to maintain. No snob appeal though. No iDrive or other tech stupidity either. |
My wife has a 2002 Sunfire that she bought new in 2001.
Over the past 7 years, her car has required: A new battery. A new set of tires. Oil changes. A new set of spark plugs and wires. A few air filters. Some wiper blades. Gas. |
What's the saying? GM cars run badly longer than anyone else's?;)
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my '02 cheby truck has 160,000 miles of abuse. 25k pulling trailers. One trailer that it pulled from LA to Vegas 5-6 times was 22'X8x7
Since day 1 on 02/02/02 it's ran greeat It's problems? 1st. I broke the tranny, After pulling that trailer up and over the Grapevine in California @ 80+ mph (hey I didn't want to be the Last guy at the table to pay for dinner) 2nd. the parking release cable broke. 3rd the trim that is around the tailgate release broke 4th someone stole the chevy logo off of the grill. The truck still has is first set of brake pads and rotors. It's first and only tune up so far has been at 100,000 miles (it was my office and I couldn't leave it at a shop) It's been loaned out to Friends, family and neighbors to move or haul. The first day of owning it I drove it 240 miles and hit the Governor @ 98mph. It's hauled a load of dirt to the dump 2,850 # takes a bit of time to shovel out! |
Reason number 2 to keep Pontiac
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My last GM car used to stall unpredictably. You could be driving on the interstate at 65 in heavy traffic in the center lane and the engine would just shut off, and not restart. Took it back to the dealers and different mechanics about 100 times. Finally traded it in, and took a loss. GM was as helpful as a tit on a bull.
I tell everyone I talk to about the bad experience and neither I nor my children have bought another GM product since, and we're car people. I figure I've cost them at least $1 mil in lost sales. Bk is too good for them in my opinion. |
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