No more Bang-Bang for this Baby-Booo…..

The Pontiac brand should be cancelled. Even better, just cancel GM.

Damn! Was sooooo looking forward to seeing more sh itty El Caminoes on the road!

I guess this just proves no matter how much you try to change and round corners on the automotive mullet nobody has room for business in the front and party in the back mobile

Nice looking car, but I agree, not much need for one. Maybe one day they will make it, that is if GM is still around.

Thank goodness! That car was hideous. The G8 and the G8 couple are great muscle cars and are constructed as such. This thing was just…I don’t know. The side shots make it look like a triangle. But nonetheless, thank you Pontiac for killing this car.

NOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo i mean it was fvckin weird but it sure was sweet

So glad this was killed. I don’t understand what on Earth GM was thinking…well, actually, yes I do, which is why they needed a bail out. They just don’t get it.

LOL Trailer trash everywhere are crying ..oh wait they couldnt afford it new anyway
This thing looked like hell and I dont think it would have sold well bc Its ugly doesnt have proven reliability and its a GM. I guess the last two are synonomous Goodbye and soon goodbye to Pontiac

So much for making Pontiac the “niche” brand.

That’s depressing.

lol haha

This wasn’t the car that needed to make it here, anyway.

We need the a G8 wagon instead. That’d sell better AND fit in better with Pontiac’s brand statement than a Pontiac coupe-pickup sold next to two GMC pickups.

Oh, and we need the Holden Caprice to replace the current Lucerne.

some beeotch

Quirky niche cars are fun (for me to poop on).

The idea of a car based truck still has merit, but not like this. Something in the spirit of the old Dodge Rampage or Rabbit pickup would appeal to a far broader audience. 1115 is probably right in that most of the people drooling over the G8 ST probably couldn’t afford the gas or insurance never mind the car itself.

Please tell me they are still making a coupe. Seriously, these things are what put GM where it is now. Maybe this wouldn’t sell well, but the word of mouth alone and the knowledge of GM making these cars gives them a reputation to build a future on, not G6’s or G3’s. You make these cars to build the brand for the long term, not the short term they are obsessed with.

Yep, whoever stated that Pontiac is niche brand is right: small niche.

I will still import the original Austrialian version when the time comes to replace.

Damn… I was seriously considering buying one of those too.

i think that car looks creepy

Thank God that thing was so fugly.

Image builders don’t come from super cars like the Ford GT, or specialty cars like the Plymouth Prowler, Chevrolet SSR or this Pontiac. They come from the main line. That’s what they need to focus on.

I would have loved to see increased development in a vehicle like the Pontiac Grand Prix. I could even point out the problems with it; a chassis that would is now 26 years old, front wheel drive and only a… four speed… automatic… available. Once you got in one, the interior screamed “try harder!!!” I’m not saying they would have sold more with a rear wheel drive Grand Prix, but the outreach would be huge to both current owners and prospective buyers unlike this.

Better yet, they should have kept cars like the Grand Am, which just needed some refining. I’d actually still consider them sporty little cars, only problems were the interior, minor exterior parts and a new platform (the N-body when cancelled was 22 years old)

But hey, they were content with bringing the price down lower and lower to try to “attract” more buyers. That obviously failed.

1115: right on. Had it been produced, it should have come standard with Harley Davidson and NRA stickers on the windows.

Love the Maloo, big mistake, this car needs to come over the creek

More good news!
Not calling this El Camino was another blunder on the GM ledger
Better off without it
DrFill

I agree that this car really wouldn’t have helped out their situation, but it was a pretty cool.

The idea of a pickup car was repulsive any way. The should have done a “G8/Monaro Coupe” again as GTO. Not likely it would happen though the way things are looking for the broke General.

Thank God… here is to keeping Holdens – Holdens.

could see that one coming $17B ago

Another product we can thank OPEC for killing…hope they’re enjoying their record-setting profits…

The ute would have been interesting, but I want the Commodore wagon.

Those who somehow claim the ute is ‘ugly’ have obviously never seen one in person.

You won’t see any more Monaro-ish coupes anyway, the Aussies don’t buy ‘em.

Good I’m not sure which is more lame this of the BMW X6.

I have a feeling that Pontiac’s future “sporty niche” will be more of an entry premium position in B-P-G made up of small hatchback models. If this means that Pontiac will be selling the next gen Corsa/Astra hatchbacks, then it won’t be so bad. I would prefer to see Pontiac turned into a RWD affordable performance “niche” brand, but I seriously doubt that will happen anytime soon, if ever. If anyone is still hanging on to hope that it will happen based on GM’s recent comments about a sporty niche future for Pontiac, please keep in mind that the press release for the upcoming Aveo based G3 hatchback stated that the car was a sporty, fun to drive addition to Pontiac’s lineup. It seems that GM has a completely different mindset as to what “sporty” and “fun to drive” means than the rest of the general public. GM’s version of “sporty” seems to revolve around putting a twin-nostril grille on everything and proclaiming it is sporty. It’s amazing how that twin-nostril grille alone can transform an otherwise mundane vehicle into a sexy driving machine. How impressive and magical is that?…

As far as the cancellation of this particular vehicle for the U.S.: I feel bad for those who planned on buying one and are truly disappointed, but I can’t say that I am one of them. I wasn’t particularly enthused to see that GM planned on including it in Pontiac’s lineup. Chevrolet was the proper home for it.

I agree with this killing. They would have lost money on this project. Just not a large enough market for one to justify it’s existence.

great.
kill one of pontiacs few dedicated models.

what a shame, so many people didn’t even know it was comming out, I for one was already to buy one, and had at least 30 others to follow, not now, Honda or Toyo now will get my dollors, GM almost had there stuff togeather. I have been a loyal GM owner for over 40 years, and it makes me sad to have to go to Japan and take more dollors out of the US. I guess I will be looking into import from downunder to get a UTE, I’m guna die with a new ELCAMINO one way or another. Another lost GM suporter.
Flangehead

I think the main mistake GM made was only offering the high-end SS Ute to you guys to what is a very limited market even without a recession. Here in OZ the Holden Ute is offered in a cheap bare-bones version with steel wheels, base V6 motor, canvas tarp for the rear and basic interior & is hugely popular with farmers & tradespeople alike as a cheap light-truck with the power & handling of a sedan. It’s only several more models up the line that we reach the expensive and relatively low-volume high performance SS Ute. And why is t we always have to fit an ugly grill & front end to our US export vehiclesto attempt to revive the 1960 twin-snorkel Pontiac look; Mercedes, BMW, Toyota, etc don’t feel the need to uglify their cars for the US market!

At least I think GM got it right with their plans to sell the US police forces the long wheelbase version of the Commodore, the Holden Statesman, as the Chevy Caprice police interceptor. Over here it’s a fully equipped and expensive limmo and fairly low volume (& is shipped also to the middle east in similar trim & low volumes), but the smart move was to strip out the plush interior & all the luxury extras & ship it to the US as a big, powerfull but basic-trim RWD police car; apparantly they’re lokking at a possible 40,000+ units a year just to police forces alone!

And for you guys who say the Ute looks ugly in the photos; I agree with you! You really need to see one in the flesh, & they look much better in daylight & painted in bright colours (sorry, colors); where I live in Sydney’s sothern beaches it semms every third car on the roads is a Ute (usually with a dog & a surfboard in the back)!

Oh, & sorry for the bad spelling; too many beers!