*Video* End Of A Classic Brand: No More Pontiac

[FarangRed]

DETROIT
The Pontiac name plate is is going out of business.
The General Motors brand was known for muscle cars drag-raced down boulevards, parked at drive-ins and roared across movie screens.
The 84-year-old brand has been moribund since GM decided to kill it last year as it collapsed into bankruptcy and was in decline for years before that.
It was undone by a combination of poor corporate strategy and changing driver tastes.
GM's agreements with Pontiac dealers expire Sunday.
Pontiac's sales peaked at about 1 million in 1968, when the brand's speedier models were prized for their powerful engines and scowling grills.

[Butterfly]

horrible looking cars, like most American cars actually since the 1960s

[peterpan]

Nimble, Yes, just as the the Queen Mary was nimble, would be a nice car to own now tho'

[Norton]

The General Motors brand was known for muscle cars drag-raced down boulevards, parked at drive-ins and roared across movie screens

Even at it's peak a nitch market. In the muscle car category GM competed with itself. Firebird/Camaro and GTO/Malibu essentially the same car. Dumb strategy and very costly.

[FarangRed]

I always used to like the Mustangs

[FarangRed]

[peterpan]

Right FR, Butty boy is talking his usual crap. Some Mustangs and even GM Camaros & Corvettes were great designs and have stood the test of time.

[FarangRed]

Around Manchester when I was a kid there was a lot of American cars Camaros and the Corvettes I used think I'm having one of them one day, I think there was something to do with the American bases that they could bring a car over tax free so after a while they got left here, they never took them back.

[Norton]

horrible looking cars

Absolutely. We must look to the French for impeccable taste and beauty in automotive design.

[FarangRed]

I wish I had one now

[FarangRed]

[peterpan]

Jezzuz norts, Now THAT is an offense to the visual senses almost beats this POS,

[Humbert]

How'd you like to grow up with nostaligic teen age memories of making out in the back of your Deux Chevaux? No thanks, I'll stay with my 61' Chevy.

[FarangRed]

horrible looking cars

Absolutely. We must look to the French for impeccable taste and beauty in automotive design.

What a bag of shite they were, couldn't give them away second hand

[FarangRed]

[Butterfly]

give me a British sport car or even an Italian any day, far better than the usual American shit

don't even think the French were in competition, so not sure how they are relevant in the muscle cars debate, unless we are talking Bucati

[peterpan]

horrible looking cars, like most American cars actually since the 1960s

Must have missed yr reference to specific sports & or muscle cars

[Humbert]

give me a British sport car or even an Italian any day

Yeah, if you like spending all your money on repairs that's a good idea.

[lom]

horrible looking cars

Absolutely. We must look to the French for impeccable taste and beauty in automotive design.

If you only knew how technically far ahead that car was when it came out, a true innovation.

[Butterfly]

the DS is a collector item, I even saw one in Bangkok

it's a cult car, you can even see them in old episodes of Mission Impossible,

they were luxury cars in Eastern Europe

[Butterfly]

Must have missed yr reference to specific sports & or muscle cars

good point, most American cars were crap, above all the muscle ones

[Butterfly]

Yeah, if you like spending all your money on repairs that's a good idea.

not true,

[FarangRed]

they were luxury cars in Eastern Europe

Along side the Lada and Skoda?

[VocalNeal]

[Gerbil]

it's a [at][at][at][at]'s car

Yes. I agree with that.