Comments on: GM mulling Pontiac sale?

By: sargegxp

sargegxp — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:30:50 +0000

may I suggest if you like some other brand then go there and refrain from leaving your kia lovin ,kill Pontiac statements there. many have vision,love the Pontiac brand and if you don’t like it go somewhere that’s nore to your liking. Many versions of TA’s would be a great start for a rebirth of the Pontiac brand. We are excited and naysayers have other options.Go to savingpontiac.org ,sign the petition. They already have a great business plan.

By: olds307

olds307 — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:12:57 +0000

errata: “even when equivelant models from Buick and Pontiac languished” should have been Buick and Oldsmobile

By: olds307

olds307 — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:12:16 +0000

During it’s entire tenure, the Pontiac Grand Am sold like hotcakes, even when equivelant models from Buick and Pontiac languished….. so what does GM do? Drop the nameplate and change it to an unrecognizable and meaningless letter number combination, G6. GM needs to KEEP Pontiac (Buick/Pontiac/GMC dealers will be lacking products competitive to Ford, Dodge, Honda, Toyota, Nissan without Pontiac), and rename ALL the “G models”.

G8=Bonneville
G6=Grand Prix
G5= Grand Am
G3=LeMans

By: The Stig

The Stig — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:44:21 +0000

If GM can get money for the name, great. If not Pontiac is better off the books, out of sight and out of mind.

By: The Shock of the SVT Lightning F150

The Shock of the SVT Lightning F150 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:12:15 +0000

Buy Aston Martin the tooling used to tha Vanquish and give us a real GTO

By: Ring-Taxi

Ring-Taxi — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:29:24 +0000

Who knows, Maybe Pontiac will pull a Maybach and get revived 100 years from now.

By: 6ix

6ix — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:26:47 +0000

Let the mullet brand die already!!

By: writeeddie

writeeddie — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:23:19 +0000

Instead of closing down the GM dealers that are earmarked to be closed. Why not just consolidate them all into one network and sell just PONTIAC branding only. Sell it along with the brand to whoever wants to buy it as a package. Its only worth something to the buyer as a brand if it come with a network of retailers (ie. SATURN.)

Or keep them and position it to be SCION competitor, not CHEVY competitor.

By: Blakkarr

Blakkarr — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:16:15 +0000

If GM were going to restart PONTIAC, which I hope they do, they would say something about it before the end of the year.

If not, then I hope PONTIAC finds a good buyer and not some knob whose going to sit on it until hell freezes over in blue ice.

By: RaineMan

RaineMan — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:24:48 +0000

In other words… “We need more money than we thought.”

By: andy

andy — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:17:48 +0000

hang on to it, then in 5 years come back strong and do it the way it was meant to be done, Trans Am/ firebird, another solstice like car, G8 or comparable, and some sort of hatch like the Astra and offer it with what ever the going HP is in 5 years for a performance hatch, maybe if the Volt technology has progressed enough, offer a fast electric car.
since the pontiac dealers will be gone, sell them on Chevy lots,

By: carstuff

carstuff — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:13:53 +0000

You know, someone could take a look at remanufacturing old Pontiacs and selling them. I know there are folks building brand new 57 chevies with modern powertrains. do the same with Pontiac.

Probably enough aftermarket vintage parts makers out there to build a bunch of classics. 2 or 3 years of GTOS, 3 or 4 years of firebirds, Solstice, etc.

By: beemerdude

beemerdude — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:47:28 +0000

All the lamenting over the passing of Pontiac has to do with models from decades ago (except for maybe the Australian–built G8). Does anyone really care for what is being badged as a Pontiac these days?? Come on now… Get real. No gives a poop about what Pontiac is in 2009. It’s all about memories from their ‘Golden Year’ in the 60s and 70s. (The 80s and 90s were disasters for Pontiac).

By: Lariat Luxury Locomotive Liner No.3

Lariat Luxury Locomotive Liner No.3 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:57:20 +0000

The Chinese are buying Pontiac, and changing the name to Chintiac.

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:29:08 +0000

Jake, I hear ya, it’s like one giant bag of what ifs when you think of what GM has become and how they got here.

By: JakeK66

JakeK66 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:25:25 +0000

JohnnyC, why bring up JZ DeLorean? I’m already upset as it is to think of what GM could be if he wasn’t shunned away from them in the 1970′s.

By: yarddog82abn

yarddog82abn — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:10:26 +0000

>:(

By: hangonbig3

hangonbig3 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:08:25 +0000

If a dealer network is what they want, there should be plenty of those properties for sale in a city near you…Buy the brand and buy up empty dealerships.

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:59:33 +0000

What exactly are they selling here? It isn’t a dealership network like Saturn. The brand has only one stand alone model (G8) that will likely just get a new nose and a different GM badge. And after decades of flogging mediocre fwd crap whose only distinguishing characteristic was yards of plastic lower body cladding I’m surprised anybody wants it. Pontiac as it exists now is so far from John Delorean’s gift of the GTO it’s not even funny. If someone wants it I say give it to them.

By: carstuff

carstuff — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:58:31 +0000

Unless they can get a lot of money, which I doubt, they should hang onto the nameplate (because that is all they could sell is the badge) until out of debt and then sell special performance/low volume models.

By: bigs4610

bigs4610 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:56:23 +0000

apologies for lack of proofreading.

By: bigs4610

bigs4610 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:48:34 +0000

gm needs a “youthful” brand to target customers in the years to come.
It sickens me to say this but even I, a GM loyal customer, have developed an interest in the Hyundai Genesis Coupe.
look at the Kia’s, Mazda’s they’re targeting the Millennial Generation that IS THE FUTURE of the auto industry. whats going to happen in the years to come when Johnny boy when he has a family of his own? Who has been influenced by Kia and their youthful cheap attractive sporty cars?
hes going to buy the next upscale Kia sedan, because he has had no attachment to GM products in his lifetime.

Its a crying shame really

By: ahnuconun

ahnuconun — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:44:55 +0000

^Ya, I read that. I meant it hypothetically to illustrate the irony of Opel competing with itself if they go from re-badged Saturns to re-badged Pontiacs. Besides, the article wasn’t clear on whether GM blocked them from selling the Opel brand name or Opel designed and developed cars.

By: bigs4610

bigs4610 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:40:32 +0000

please dont sell it GM
USE IT!

By: bigs4610

bigs4610 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:39:15 +0000

pontiac should be GM’s opel import brand IMO

By: JakeK66

JakeK66 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:30:42 +0000

@ahnuconun

Nice idea, but I guess you didn’t read this article:

http://www.leftlanenews.com/gm-deal-blocks-magna-from-selling-opels-in-us-china.html

I for one would rather have Magna buy out Saturn and sell them as Opels, as I been preaching, but the Pontiac would work for it too, like I also been saying. Too bad GM has to be a dick about all this and block us from whatever is good out of Germany.

By: ahnuconun

ahnuconun — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:24:22 +0000

Magna should buy it and sell re-badged Opels in North America to compete with whoever buys Saturn. Then it would be a German-Canadian brand with an American-Native name.