Monday, April 27, 2009 The death of Pontiac

67HEAVEN · Poncho Master!

Monday, April 27, 2009 The death of Pontiac

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

If that is true and I had a flag pole.......

I got my licence in Feb of 74. March 12th of that same year I bought my first 65 Canso SD. Since that day, there has never been a day in my life that I have not owned a Canadian full size Pontiac or Acadian. I can hardly imagine that there will be no Pontiac. I hope they are wrong.

-- Edited by Carl Stevenson on Thursday 23rd of April 2009 09:29:41 PM

pontorquer · Poncho Master!

As far as I'm concerned, Pontiac has been dead since the mid seventies but that's just me, not trying to offend anybody.

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

I happen to know a new owner of a G8 GT who would be willing to take on pretty much any of those 60's and 70's musclecars.

I know what you are saying but there is no denying the performance out of that G8.

And this new owner happens to be a musclecar guy at heart...

Johann65 · Guru

This is truly a sad day for Pontiac. I wonder if this is the reason that the Hummer was moved to South Africa? For it to become a nich product? Plenty running around Locally and exported. The other question is what is going to happen to the Canadian plants and component manufacturers?

Locally GM is offering a Harley with each Hummer sold. So chances are that Hummer will also die out.

-- Edited by Johann65 on Saturday 25th of April 2009 01:19:15 PM

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

I'd love to own a G8 GT too- esp the SLP Firehawk version. It is sad to see Pontiac die like this.

87 player bird · Poncho Master!

Sniff:(

57poncho · Uber Guru

My Dad has been selling GM'S for 37 years and he said it time to many lines he said GMC trucks will be gone also.

67HEAVEN · Poncho Master!

57poncho wrote:

My Dad has been selling GM'S for 37 years and he said it time to many lines he said GMC trucks will be gone also.

It's not that GM has too many lines. It's the horrendous mismanagment of the formerly largest corporation in the world. Idiotic decisions and criminal complacency over the last 3 or 4 decades have brought General Motors to its knees and opened the doors wide for many, many more "lines" to replace Oldsmobile, Pontiac and GMC. If anything, there are many more car lines available in the marketplace these days than ever before. Is anyone telling Toyota, etc. to stop selling cars here because we have too many car lines? No.

Those replacements (Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Kia, Subaru, etc.) weren't pre-destined to take the market away from the Big Three.......we (North Americans) simply gave it away to them with our stupidity. From the highest level of management, through investors and down to the shop floor..........bad decisions and a false belief that no one would beat GM.

Sickening. Don't want to believe it..........but here it is. disbelief