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Soup · 27 Apr 2009, 08:20 am

Pontiac Officially Scuttled, G8 and Solstice Will Go Down With the Ship | PriceWheels Blog

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Pontiac Officially Scuttled, G8 and Solstice Will Go Down With the Ship

Apr 27th, 2009 by Ross Edwards Edit |

On Friday we reported that GM will be eliminating the Pontiac brand entirely, rather than going forward with the original plan, which was to keep it as a performance oriented nameplate. We tried to temper this bad news with some hope though, by putting forward the idea that GM wouldn’t be silly enough to get rid of the Solstice and G8, Pontiac’s only remaining exclusive sports cars (The Saturn Sky is mechanically identical to the Solstice, but with Saturn’s fate already sealed, the Solstice would have been alone).

Unfortunately, our optimism was premature. The G8 and Solstice will not be rebadged and sold under another GM nameplate, according to The New York Times and Jalopnik, who each covered this morning’s conference call with GM’s CEO Fritz Henderson.
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Looks like I was wrong, they are dropping the G8. Stupid stupid move if you ask me, it's one of the 5 GM vehicles I would actually consider owning.

01mmmz28 · 27 Apr 2009, 10:15 am

I don't understand....if you need to cut some fat, why not Buick? What would that hurt, besides old people who want to drive to bingo? lol

fat_kid · 27 Apr 2009, 10:30 am

yeah, fuk buick and gm

Memphis · 27 Apr 2009, 12:45 pm

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Originally Posted by 01mmmz28

I don't understand....if you need to cut some fat, why not Buick? What would that hurt, besides old people who want to drive to bingo? lol

Buick is big in China. This news really bums me out, I thouight their idea of making it a niche brand was going to be dope. they could just focus on the good cars they ahd there already but this

Soup · 27 Apr 2009, 03:12 pm

hey memphis can you change the thread name? I effed it up.

Memphis · 27 Apr 2009, 04:07 pm

There you go, hope its good.

Soup · 27 Apr 2009, 05:49 pm

thanks.

vette12 · 27 Apr 2009, 06:44 pm

So what's official and what isn't? Pontiac is for sure done.... What's the story with Saturn, Hummer, and Saab??

Memphis · 27 Apr 2009, 08:08 pm

Saturn is being phased out next year I believe, Hummer is still needing a buyer and Saab.... I think they are going to get rid of it, can't recall the story i read.

bmxer99 · 27 Apr 2009, 11:18 pm

buick lacrosse has won a shit load of awards this year suprisingly, old people and chinese people love the **** out of buicks apparently

EVILZ33 · 28 Apr 2009, 05:45 am

kidna sucks but its for the best

Soup · 28 Apr 2009, 06:15 am

They said that they'll be completely done with Saab, Hummer and Saturn by the end of this year. From what I've read, Saab and Hummer both have potential buyers lined up. I don't know what's going on with Saturn though. They have a completely independent dealer network, so it would be really expensive for GM to just close it, but all the vehicles are built at GM plants, so they can't sell those along with the name.

bam 240sx · 28 Apr 2009, 09:13 am

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Originally Posted by fat_kid

yeah, fuk buick and gm

fuc u how bout that u bastad

gm (was) awesome, they cant help it that the 2nd generation cant run the company and is greedy. things dont happen without leader approval and if they're stupid and money hungry shit is bound to go down the drain. its sad

fat_kid · 28 Apr 2009, 01:16 pm

shite happens

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Soup Veteran Tremekian Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 4,406 Soup's Gallery	Re: http://blog.pricewheels.com/2009/04/27/pontiac-officially-scuttled-g8-and-solstic hey memphis can you change the thread name? I effed it up.

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Soup Veteran Tremekian Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 4,406 Soup's Gallery	Re: Its Official Pontiac is done. thanks.

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