Goodbye Pontiac....

[The Big Red One]

I guess that'll make my Firebird a collectors item Honestly I'll be glad when GM and their overpriced crap vehicles are gone......it'll open the way up for some new companies who hopefully focus more on quality and bang for the buck........and less on execs/unions getting crazy rich, and sucking the value and marketability out of the product. I just wish they'd hurry up and go bankrupt before they suck any more "bailout" money out of us to pad their retirements ???

 

[Kainedogg]

I presently have a '68 Le Mans I am putting together as well as an '89 Formula with the L98.

 

[Justyntym]

if you don't think working in a autoplant is hazardous, physical,and requires training then obviously never steped foot in one.
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I work in a mfg plant (for the last 25 years as a matter of fact) and yes I
suppose to a much lesser degree, it is all those (were is the eye roll icon?)

Pysical to a sense that your not sitting at a desk, ihowever your not charging
up a hill in a desert or running full bore up a flight of stairs in a burning building.

It's hazardous particulaly in the sense if your stupid (generally if you follow
plant guidelines, a large number of the employee do make it home everyday),
unlike the numbers in Iraq or the fallen police officers or fireman

does require training, yeah I know even our fork lift driver has to sit threw a
video and get company certified and our guys need to learn how to build
things or what button to push but it's a far cry from a degree in law enforcement
going thru the firecollege and a boot camp.

Can't believe were even compairing them...Not to mention the service to the
public. If our military goes away we learn to speak Chinese, our police goes
were at the mercy of gangs and criminals, the fireman decide they've had
enough, our homes and business burn to the ground. The auto workers go
out of business...we buy Toyota's, which are a better value anyway.

There are a lot of people out of work who will do that job happily for a lot less
time for the reality check and get paid what the job is worth.

Someone tell me again why a V-8 Challenger is $43,000 msrp...
FORTY....THREE....THOUSAND...DOLLARS....what the....

 

[Justyntym]

another side note * A business associate of mine in Indiana was telling
me of a large paper company that was barely hanging on. They were union.
The management went to the union to make concession and keep the plant
open. The union people were so PO'd about the thought of giving up their
entitlements they called for an immediate strike.

Meanwhile, the company's customers unable to get supplies, went to their
competitors...the plant shut it's doors went belly up.

Congratulations...you just bankrupted your own company and are now
unemployed. True story to the best of my knowledge.

Does this sound familiar...

In life...your not "entitled" to sht and sooner people realize that, the sooner
this country can get back to what made it great.

Unfortunately...we have the king of freebees sitting on the throne and he's
having a fire sale.

 

[Hayabusa2005]

 

[Projekt]

Uhhh... Pontiac was NEVER more than run of the mill Badge engineering..

Firebird=Chevy Camaro
GranPrix=Chevy MonteCarlo
GTO=Holden (Aussie) Monaro
G8=Holden Commodore
80-90s Lemans=Opel Kaddett/Vauxhall Astra/Daewoo garbage

Good riddance

 

[ibified]

Uhhh... Pontiac was NEVER more than run of the mill Badge engineering..

Firebird=Chevy Camaro
GranPrix=Chevy MonteCarlo
GTO=Holden (Aussie) Monaro
G8=Holden Commodore
80-90s Lemans=Opel Kaddett/Vauxhall Astra/Daewoo garbage

Good riddance

Yeah I think we'll be just fine without pontiac. We have more reliable cars to pick from anyway, like jaguar, land rover, volkswagen, and kia...

 

[alglag412]

The auto industry needs to drop the union . It is dragged down by all the costs associated by the retired. Thats why ford hasn't had its paws out for gov. Money!!

 

[Justyntym]

This is why LEOs DESERVE a pension and assembly workers do not...


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[Lamb busa]

Good riddens!

 

[AJAY]

A crying shame. I travel a lot for work and always pick the Pontiacs.. Usually the best handling cars available on the rental lots.

This totally sucks by GM. Buick should have gone. Those things are tanks on marshmallows.

 

[ibified]

dont worry, ajay, buick will be next. along with saturn and hummer.

 

[AJAY]

dont worry, ajay, buick will be next. along with saturn and hummer.

Doesn't make me happy, 'cept maybe Hummer. Those never should have been sold as civilian vehicles.

I've owned quite a few GM vehicles over the years. We had more trouble with my wife's Camry in 4 years than we did with my GMC pickup truck in 14 years. Going on 6 years with my Trailblazer.

Always have had a soft spot for the Pontiacs. They were always the most interesting of the GM line. Not just badge engineering as someone else wrote. Drive the Chevy and then drive the "same car" under the Pontiac name and you'll know the difference.

 

[ibified]

trouble with a camry puts you in almost as small a minority as NO trouble with a trailblazer.

 

[The Big Red One]

trouble with a camry puts you in almost as small a minority as NO trouble with a trailblazer.

 

[BlueHaya]

trouble with a camry puts you in almost as small a minority as NO trouble with a trailblazer.

I am in that minority as well, wifes Trailblazer...over 80,000 miles and no problems yet.



....oh and while we are dropping tags...let's get rid of GMC....we have Chevrolet which sells the same things.

 

[RedBull]

That
Stinks . . .

 

[c10]

19 year old Marine stationed in Hawaii.
It's his 1st car . Bought by himself.
@19 I was so peddling my bicycle lol

 

[hayabuser]

Uhhh... Pontiac was NEVER more than run of the mill Badge engineering..

Firebird=Chevy Camaro
GranPrix=Chevy MonteCarlo
GTO=Holden (Aussie) Monaro
G8=Holden Commodore
80-90s Lemans=Opel Kaddett/Vauxhall Astra/Daewoo garbage

Good riddance

There was that one time that they had a platform all to themselves:

 

[RedBull]