LAST AUTO NEWS – GM: PONTIAC WILL BE “PHASED OUT BY THE END OF 2010″
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Pontiac will be gone by the end of next year. Autoblog reports, “Rumors from backward endure anniversary accept appear home to roost, and as allotment of its restructuring efforts, General Motors has just appear that Pontiac will be “phased out by the end of 2010.” GM will abide to body its accelerated activity plan about four brands: Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick, and GMC..
In a columnist appointment announcement the decision, GM CEO Fritz Henderson told reporters, “The aggregation does not apprehend to body Hummers, Saabs and Saturns above 2009,” according to the Washington Post.
GM will advertise beneath models as a aftereffect of the cast elimination. In a columnist release, the automaker explains, “GM will action a absolute of 34 nameplates in 2010, a abridgement of 29 percent from 48 nameplates in 2008.”
Pontiac models will not abide as Chevrolet products, according to Jalopnik. “Henderson…told journalists the Pontiac Vibe and Solstice will not reside on at added brands.”
The move aswell agency the acceptable afterlife of the well-reviewed Pontiac G8. The New York Times comments, “If Pontiac had offered cars this acceptable 10 years ago, it wouldn’t be flat-lining now in the analytical affliction unit. Of course, if G.M. had fabricated a austere accomplishment to body overengineered cars like the G8 20 years ago, there would be no allocution of defalcation or slicing the company’s ‘good’ assets from its mistakes.”
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