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Last Auto Account – Pontiac G8 Die-Off Rumored Carscoop, via Edmund’s InsideLine, address an bearding antecedent claims that the rear-drive, Holden-based Pontiac G8 will not be kept in assembly afterwards it lives out about 5 added years of production. Along with rumors, they claim, of the annihilation of Lutz’s baby, the Pontiac Solstice roadster, this would leave Pontiac with ..Last Auto account –

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Carscoop, via Edmund’s InsideLine, address an bearding antecedent claims that the rear-drive, Holden-based Pontiac G8 will not be kept in assembly afterwards it lives out about 5 added years of production. Along with rumors, they claim, of the annihilation of Lutz’s baby, the Pontiac Solstice roadster, this would leave Pontiac with aught rear-drive achievement cars in its stable.

Pontiac has continued struggled to advance the able achievement angel it has consistently claimed. From cast promises like “We Build Excitement,” watered down with characterless realities like wood-paneled Safari Wagons and the afflicted cavalier-based J2000 and Sunbird, Pontiac has been a again victim of GM’s badge-engineering. This, from the cast that helped burn the muscle-car wars in the backward ’60s by capacity ailing V-8 ability into the Tempest and whipping up the allegorical GTO. Pontiac’s cast affiance now reads: “,” but it seems they still don’t apperceive absolutely what kind of car they mean.

Lacking constant administration to accumulate the afraid four-cylinders, plasticized MPVs, balance bodyside cladding, and agreeable craven hoods at bay, Pontiac’s history has been a bipolar antic through both the ablaze and the abysmal. If the G8 and Solstice go the way of the Dodo, will the altogether able (but arguably unnecessary) Pontiac G6 and Pontiac G5, the lame-duck Pontiac Grand Prix, and the ungainly Pontiac G3 (aargh – Aveo clone) accomplish any array of believable point about the approaching of GM performance? Looks like Chevy (2009 Corvette ZR-1) and Cadillac (2009 Cadillac CTS-V) are accomplishing a far added acceptable job of achievement than Pontiac.

If GM does absorb with Chrysler, and some of the General’s abounding capacity end up getting axed, do you anticipate Pontiac could end up on the chopping block?–Colin Mathews

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