My uncle gave us a car dictionary as a gift when I was like 5 years old. I used to look at the pictures of American cars, especially the Pontiac caught my attention. I asked my mom about it & she said that Pontiac was the most modern-looking and best performing car in the world. That was in the mid 80s when i was living in India.
Just a couple of years back, I moved to the US & to my surprise what I see today - nobody drives Pontiac, everyone is obsessed with the Japanese makes & they all say Pontiac is crap these days and they all discourage me from buying one & ask me to go for a top-class German or a Japanese car.
What happened to Pontiac? Best car in the world in the 70s and 80s to one of the worst in this decade?
2006-08-11 10:09:03 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Pontiac
Pontiac was one of the brands most hurt by the gas crunches of the '70s. They were associated with gas guzzling muscle cars, and the attityudes of the american buyer changed overnight. They spent many years trying to be everything to everyone, and that clearly wasn't working. I mean, who needs a performance minivan?
Todays Pontiacs are good quality, stylish cars, and the sales numbers are starting to reflect that. While the American market is down overall, Pontiac sales are actually increasing.
The Solstice is impossible to get, the new G6 convertible is a winner, the new G5 looks great, and the classic Grand Prix is a looker with real power. The difference is the power now comes with technology to help efficiency, like the Grand Prix GXPs "Active Fuel Management", which increases the cars MPG by selectively shutting off unneeded cylinders.
2006-08-12 01:20:47 · answer #1 · answered by InjunRAIV 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Pontiac-was never a General Motors top line of auto, infact it was the General Motors Lower end line of cars
Except for way back in the 60's. In the 60's pontiac had one of the fastest muscle cars of the times,.. the GTO.
people use to re-arrange the letters in PONTIAC to say ANTI COP, Anyway,. look for a classic Pontiac,.. a 65-78 pontiac GTO will turn heads. and out run the young kids today in there japanese and german cars
2006-08-11 10:31:58 · answer #2 · answered by hailey 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have a 1991 Pontiac Bonneville. It's been a pretty good car. It's not flashy or high performing but it gets me to work and back and has made some fairly long road trips. I haven't seen what Pontiac is putting out for cars nowadays, though.
2006-08-11 10:18:23 · answer #3 · answered by tonialmo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
pontiac got lost in the gm shuffle,but word is they are on the way back talks are under way to return pontiac to its roots all rear drive high performance muscle all frt drivers will be eliminated from the line up and a all new gto and firebird are coming add the solstice turbo and you can see that pontiac plans to reclaim the streets
2006-08-12 16:05:11 · answer #4 · answered by o t 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ive ouned lots of vehicals and pontiac is still #1 in my books like they say its not the car but how u maintain it and drive it that counts yes there may be the odd ball that brakes but it was made on a friday afternoon lol try to buy a car made on a tuesday or wedsday go buy the searil # check with gm
2006-08-12 05:19:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on who your friends are. Lately the good pontiacs cars are hard to work on. Haven't seen an easy one as of late. And they are pretty much along the same lines as chevrolet, with different badging. Thats kind of why they went to garbage. But is like everyone else, an opinion.
2006-08-11 10:16:06 · answer #6 · answered by Silverstang 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They equipped it for 3 years in hardship-free words till that platform went out of production. VTX - Its nevertheless equipped with the aid of GM and it ought to have value a fortune to construct a plant to make 18k autos a twelve months once you've a plant that has room to construct that automobile because its already progression it. The GTO become in hardship-free words about $35k. That become rather aggressive with different similar autos till sellers further a markup and GM cant administration that. human beings complained the Trans Am become too intense. so as that they make this bland and human beings complained about that too. i imagine the second one and third twelve months ones were tremendous contained in the middle styling. The Camaro will be equipped in Canada clone of the former ones.
2016-11-29 22:45:22 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pontiac's are still pretty good cars, but they are not as good as they used to be. and the same thing happend to them, as it did to the rest of the car makes, they all got worse. for example mercedes is one of the cars driven throw the whole world but now that chrysler is the owner of mercedes they are not as reliable as they used to be.
2006-08-11 10:25:30 · answer #8 · answered by serb423 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nobody? Huh? Just take a look at all those Grand-Ams, Sunfires,and Grand-Prixs out there.
2006-08-12 01:44:22 · answer #9 · answered by ezachowski 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Had one...would never have another one!
2006-08-12 15:52:14 · answer #10 · answered by missingora 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋