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Originally Posted by racerx520
well i remember when oldsmobile was shut down. i cant believe they want to shut down pontiac, its (or atleast was) such a big company and made such memorable cars. im gonna miss them, kinda makes me pissed, i heard about their switch to just re-badging chevy cars but i thought that was just until GM gets out of this funk.
i think if GM needs to cut a company, it should be saab, i hate hate HATE their cars and how crappy they look. man, this blows! seemed like pontiac was just getting good again with the G8 and the GXP Bonneville and stuff like that, such crap, its too bad pontiac couldnt do the firebird i saw prototype drawings of and end it there, atleast they'd go out with a bang, none of this pontiac torrent crap!
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Saab is already gone. GM is looking to unload it onto the Sweedish goverment. They dont want it.
GXP Bonni, and the Bonni overall, has been dead for a while now.
A Firebird vehicle would be exactly what GM has been doing wrong for a long time.
40 years ago, when GM owned 60% of the market share, they could make several cars off one platform.
But now they have 20% of the market share, and having 4 variants eating up the same budget to fight cars that are just have ONE entry. So you make 4 decent cars instead of 1 or 2 great cars.
Pontiac, overall, has been dead since 2004. The only new car GM has made for Pontiac since then was the Solstice.
Everything else was a hand me down from another division. Even Toyota.