In yet another move to solidify Pontiac as the Performance Division of GM by selling exciting unique cars to niche markets, comes the announcement of the '10 G8 Sport Truck. As I stated in a recent ...
Back in 2008, with financial woes mounting and following its massive restructuring strategy, General Motors announced its intention to phase out the iconic Pontiac brand by the end of 2010. Follow us: ...
Pontiac once built a fabulous G8 concept car. It was a four-door coupe at a time when the segment was just starting to gain ground. Even though it screamed "series production," Pontiac decided to ...
When referring to Pontiac’s final flagship, the G8, the adage “saving the best for last” definitely comes to mind. Produced for Pontiac’s swan song years of 2008-’09, the G8 followed in the wide ...
Pontiac, once known as General Motors' "excitement" division, will bring back the thrill at next week's New York Auto Show with two new models. One is a 400-hp GXP variation of the new Pontiac G8 that ...
One of the biggest automotive tragedies of the late 2000s was the death of Pontiac. A brand – once the face of affordable performance icons like the GTO and Firebird – lost its way, turning into ...
The launch of the Pontiac G8 marked a return to the brand’s performance roots, but the marque’s fate may have already been sealed. General Motors was in a tough spot prior to the 2008 financial crash.
Remember Pontiac? I mean, Pontiac as it should have been all along, not the Pontiac of the 1990s with all its bad plastic, questionable styling and disappointment. We lost GM's "performance brand" in ...
Pontiac’s Holden-based G8 can gobble up miles of asphalt with aplomb. We’ve been down this road before, haven’t we? Wasn’t it just yesterday that Pontiac went Down Under and brought back a thinly ...
Finally. We have been begging GM to bring us a version of Holden’s new VE Commodore ever since the Aussie sedan launched in July. And now, at the 2007 Chicago Auto Show, we’re about to be granted our ...
Pontiac was in a real good place in 2008. The arrowhead brand was living large with a slew of critically acclaimed models on the road, including the G8, an enthusiast-favorite sporty sedan yoinked ...