John McElroy joins columnist Peter De Lorenzo, along with everyone's favorite former PR-man Jason Vines and "Twitter personality" Michael Banovsky to discuss the happenings in the automotive world for this week's Autoline After Hours. In keeping with the show's "Unscripted. Unapproved. Unusually frank discussion." tag-line, the topics haven't been announced, but expect the crew to chew over the IIHS' sub-compact crash-test results, the possible axing of Pontiac and GMC and Fiat's hard-line stance on the Chrysler merger. It starts in a few minutes, so
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ricky 8:07PM (4/16/2009)
Delorenzo is a tool. Always has been and always will be. The guy says Chrysler is doomed yet thinks a retro Trans Am will bring Pontiac back from CERTAIN death.
uhhh..OK.
Cuz we all know performance cars always save brands...
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phoenix 10:55PM (4/16/2009)
Chrysler *IS* toast, and that's just a cryin' shame. I'm a longtime Dodge Boy, but the company has been passed around like a cheap date between clueless foreign owners and hedge fund vampires, none of which gave half a damn about the well-being of one of America's great car makers. Sorry, but even if the Fiat deal does come to fruition, Chrysler as we know it is over and done with.
The Trans Am is Pontiac's legacy, now that the GTO name has been euthanized once and for all. Would a new Firechicken save the company? Of course not. Pontiac's days as a full-line manufacturer are over. But as a limited niche brand? Plenty of room for that to happen, but only if GM emerges from Hell with the combination of smart leadership and Lutz-inspired swagger.
That's not wishful thinking. That's just the high octane truth.
PMD is no fool. Anyone with the slightest bit of insight into the industry (in both domestic and global fields) knows that quite well.
Thanks for the pointless troll though - I needed something to get me aggravated enough to bother with a good rant.