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REPORT: All GM brands to go on sale this week

The holidays are coming and everything must go! So says GM's VP of sales Susan Docherty. "All of our efforts will be to sell down our remaining 2009 inventory." Docherty is expecting all the 2009 cars to be cleared out by January, 2010. The big sales, starting this week, each get their own names. Chevy is having a "Red Tag Sale," Buick-GMC are going with "Holiday Event" and tip of the top Caddy is using, "Seasons Best." As it happens, that's right about the time that Pontiac and Saturn are set to wander off into the sunset -- for good. ... Read more →

Rumormill: Holden-based, RWD 2012 Chevy SS coming after all? Jonny Lieberman

If it's Monday, there must be a big, rear-wheel drive Chevrolet four-door coming soon. Tuesday? We'll retract and deny everything. We know, we know. We also know we just reported that the next ...

While Supplies Last: Pontiac says only 16 G8 GXPs left at U.S. dealers (among other things) Noah Joseph

If you're looking to get your hands on a Pontiac before the General Motors division shuts its doors for good, you'd better act fast, because stocks are dangerously depleted. According to Pontiac's ...

SEMA 2009: Pinkee's ignites lust for a Pontiac Firebird Frank Filipponio

This year's SEMA show might have been a bit smaller than in years past, but there were certainly some heavy hitters in the crowd that proved the old "quality, not quantity" adage. Take, for ...

The Lingenfelter 455 T/A Concept really is badass Alex Nunez

Car and Driver is the first outlet to post real live photos of the SEMA-bound Lingenfelter 455 T/A Concept. By taking the looks of the '70 Trans Am and adapting them to the new Chevrolet Camaro, ...

SEMA Preview: Lingenfelter to show off Camaro-based Pontiac Trans Am 25 days ago on Autoblog

Apparently, there are more Trans Am-obsessed Pontiac aficionados in the world than we initially suspected. While we have a major soft spot in our hearts for the old Poncho F-Bodies, we'd never actually go to the trouble of converting a perfectly good 2010 Camaro into something featuring T-tops ...

STUDY: Ford owns brand loyalty in 2009; Scorned Saturn, Pontiac buyers will look outside of GM 1 month ago on Autoblog

Ford buyers appear to love their cars more than customers of any other automotive brand, returning back to the American automaker when it comes time to purchase their next vehicle. According to a study by Experian Automotive, six of the top 10 vehicles for customer brand loyalty wear badges from ...

VIDEO: Chrysler Turbo Encabulator piques our engineering interest 1 month ago on Autoblog

Back on January 16 of 1994, our 1985 Pontiac Parisienne Safari decided to blow a hole its radiator at the corner of Roscoe and De Soto in the San Fernando Valley. We remember noticing the temp gauge peg itself all the way to the right just as steamy white smoke began erupting out of the hood, ...

Kicking the Dead: Pontiac recalls 10k 2009-2010 Vibes over cold-weather braking 1 month ago on Autoblog

General Motors is recalling 10,119 units of the Pontiac Vibe due to cold weather-related brake problems. The vehicles subject to the recall are all fitted with the 1.8-liter four-cylinder powerplant, and were sold or are currently registered in one of about two dozen snow belt states. ...

Rumormill: DeLorean Motor Company considering rescuing Pontiac Solstice? 1 month ago on Autoblog

General Motors has made a science out of sharing platforms. So when the company's Kappa platform was introduced for a new rear-drive roadster to be distributed across three different motor divisions, you'd have figured the program was pretty safe, right? Unfortunately for the workers at the ...

REPORT: Zeta-based Chevy "G8" police car to be unveiled Monday 1 month ago on Autoblog

The Pontiac G8 has not deserved its lot in life, and despite the Australians trying to steal it back with the debut of two special edition Holdens that look awfully similar, this rear-wheel-drive sport sedan will find one way or another to stay on sale in the U.S. Unfortunately, its customers ...

Pontiac G8 resurfaces in Australia as a pair of special-edition Holdens 1 month ago on Autoblog

Holden giveth, and Holden taketh away. While we're still mourning the departure of the Pontiac G8 here in the U.S., the General's Australian subsidiary – whose Commodore gave birth to the G8 in the first place – has just announced a pair of special editions that seem to take back what ...

Jim Wangers back in the business of selling the Pontiac GTO? 1 month ago on Autoblog

The Pontiac GTO is a muscle car legend. As the car that's most often credited with kicking off the trend of putting the biggest available engine in the smallest available body, the praise and adoration are well-deserved. Despite the reality that the Goat wasn't always the fastest ride available, ...

REPORT: GM still working on importing Holden Commodore with police package 2 months ago on Autoblog

Stop us if you've heard this one. GM's Australian-based arm is looking to send its Holden Commodore to the United States. Right, um, that's the Pontiac G8, right? Actually, no, it's dead. And it may not be a Chevy either, depending on how you read the report from drive.com.au, which quotes GM ...

What a Way to Go: Oldest reported Pontiac found as brand rides off into the sunset 2 months ago on Autoblog

As it turns out, "old GM" still matters to someone -- and in this case, we mean really old. The Fairfield County Concours d'Elegance in Westport, Connecticut wanted to include Pontiac in this year's showing, so it went looking for the most ancient example it could find. Of the 12 Pontiacs they ...

VIDEO: Reborn Trans Am makes fire-breathing entrance in Dayton 2 months ago on Autoblog

Few Pontiac models will be missed by as many people as the Trans Am. From its humble origins in 1969 as an option package on the two-year-old Firebird platform through the Super Duty days and the Bandit Special Editions, right on up to the final Ram Air LS1-powered F-Bodies from 2002, Pontiac's ...

eBay Find of the Day: Return of the Pontiac Fieroboat! 3 months ago on Autoblog

Presented today for your bidding pleasure: the one-and-only Fieroboat, as previously highlighted on these pages. Since its last appearance on the internet's largest flea market, the Pontiac-that-wasn't has apparently received a much needed coat of paint – wouldn't want the any salty water ...

REPORT: Pontiac G8 Sedan, Wagon and Ute to be sold... in Australia 3 months ago on Autoblog

It's sad enough that the dizzying, platform-sharing, don't-call-it-rebadging upcoming product extravaganza General Motors unveiled to the Twitterati and media last week did not include the terms Zeta, Pontiac, G8, or any derivative thereof, but if a new report out of Australia is accurate, ...

Confirmed: "Phoenix" Trans Am conversion kit coming for Camaro 3 months ago on Autoblog

So... as of January 1, 2010, Pontiac is dead. Buried. Gone forever. No more. Obviously, something as pesky as death ain't going to stop hard core Trans Am fanatics from driving an (almost) honest to goodness 2010 Pontiac Trans Am and/or Firebird. Why? If you have to ask... you bring up a good ...

REPORT: The Sky has a limit after all, as GM Kappa production ends 3 months ago on Autoblog

Old saying: The flame that burns twice as bright burns only half as long. Having driven our share of Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky roadsters, we can't honestly declare them to be brightly burning flames. Oh, they have their good points, but the market's worst folding top mechanism and rampant ...

Fritz Henderson to Autoblog: Chevy Caprice is being looked at as "police application" 4 months ago on Autoblog

Ever since General Motors announced this spring that it was killing the Pontiac brand as part of its restructuring, fans of the Holden-developed G8 sedan have been clamoring to save it as a Chevrolet. After company officials repeatedly said over the past two months that no such thing would happen, ...

GM beginning to backpedal on Lutz' G8-turning-Caprice comments? 4 months ago on Autoblog

When General Motors' Bob Lutz talks, we listen. The reason, of course, is that he always gives us something good to write. Over the weekend, we told you about an interview Lutz had with Automobile Magazine where the Maximum One said that the G8 will live on as a Chevrolet Caprice. Lutz's comments ...

2009 Pontiac Solstice GXP Coupe: Great moments in cupholder history 4 months ago on Autoblog

If you've ever driven a Pontiac Solstice, you know that it's a very pretty but extremely flawed car. In the interest of getting the concept car's look exactly right in production form, GM had to make a host of compromises, which manifest themselves in a number of ways. You all know about the ...

Hurst announces Pontiac H.O. G8 and G6 4 months ago on Autoblog

The Pontiac brand may be on its way out the door, but that doesn't mean it can't have one last fling with a renowned tuner. Hurst Performance Vehicles, the legendary shifter company that most recently has made waves with its Hemi Challenger, announced its new H.O. program for the Pontiac G6 and ...

After 25 years, GM ditches NUMMI tie-up with Toyota 4 months ago on Autoblog

As part of its "New GM"/"Old GM" bankruptcy proceedings, General Motors has announced that it will abandon its ownership stake in the New United Motor Manufacturing Incorporated (NUMMI) joint venture with Toyota. According to an official statement, GM and Toyota worked to find a future product that ...

Review: Pontiac Solstice GXP Coupe goes quick, just don't look back 5 months ago on Autoblog

Climb into the Pontiac Solstice Coupe and there's an unsettling feeling of familiarity. We've been here before. And after driving off, it all begins to gel, although it has nothing to do with our previous stints in the drop-top variant. The Coupe feels like the unruly offspring of a night of ...

Dampened: Pontiac Vibe production ends this August 5 months ago on Autoblog

It was originally thought that the Vibe would be the terminal Pontiac, but now that we've learned that the Excitement runs out of the NUMMI plant by the end of August we're not so sure. While the curtain will drop on the Vibe, General Motors hasn't totally ruled out future co-production with Toyota ...

Last Call: Pontiac Vibe final consumer model for dead brand 5 months ago on Autoblog

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Last Pontiac Standing will be the nearly new Vibe. The compact hatchback was the predictable pick not just due to its young age, but because it is part of General Motors' longstanding NUMMI joint-venture plant with Toyota. Understandably, the Vibe isn't set to get a ...

Pontiac G8 could live on, sans Pontiac... but don't hold your breath 5 months ago on Autoblog

The brand's demise next year will mark the end of the Pontiac G8, but there's a faint glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel for the Aussie-built sports sedan. Speaking with Automotive News, Tom Stephens, General Motors' vice chairman of global product development, said "there's still ...

GM offering dealers up to $1 million to 'wind-down' retailers? 5 months ago on Autoblog

General Motor is attempting to cushion the blow of dealers losing their franchises as part of the automaker's bid to pare down its network. According to Automotive News, the bankrupt automaker is offering some dealerships between $100,000 to $1 million to assist in the "wind down" of their ...

REPORT: GM preparing to give more dealerships the axe 5 months ago on Autoblog

On top of the 1,124 General Motors dealers that will be closed next year, the ailing automaker is reportedly going to announce another round of dealer closings on Monday when its bankruptcy declaration is expected. According to two Automotive News sources, 450 dealers will not see their dealer ...

Burying the Dead: Pontiac G8 faces recall over faulty taillamps, tire-pressure sensors 6 months ago on Autoblog

General Motors may have already buried its Pontiac division, but the brand's recent passing isn't stopping a posthumous recall campaign by the automaker and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The action, which covers some 35,038 Pontiac G8 sedans from the 2008 and 2009 model ...

Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky could live on... with different parents 6 months ago on Autoblog

General Motors' acting CEO Fritz Henderson has said the Wilmington, DE plant that currently produces the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky could be sold if a buyer was interested in producing the two roadsters. "If someone were to approach [us] with a proposal that made good sense for our people, ...

More GM Cuts: Cadillac STS-V and Pontiac G6 GXP both gone for 2010 6 months ago on Autoblog

Pluto, the Roman god of Hades, is currently on a tour of the General Motors product garage and he's taking a few cars with him from the land of the living. After sending the Impala SS and the Cobalt SS to the underworld, he has just added to his collection the Cadillac STS-V and Pontiac G6 GXP ...

ASC recreates Trans-Am with 2010 Chevrolet Camaro 6 months ago on Autoblog

Pontiac is on its way out just as the new 2010 Chevy Camaro has arrived. Had this been a decade or two earlier, the Camaro would most certainly be accompanied by an equally sick Pontiac version, namely the Trans-Am. But even before it was decided to put the final nail in Pontiac's coffin, ...

Pontiac dealer offers to buy brand, GM says "Not For Sale" 6 months ago on Autoblog

Davison, MI, Pontiac-Buick-GMC dealer Jim Waldron isn't ready to give up on the Pontiac brand just yet. During a local news program on Flint ABC affiliate WJRT-12, Waldron revealed that he had made an offer to General Motors to buy Pontiac. Earlier in the week, GM announced that the Pontiac brand ...

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