Pontiac is coming back…

[Eldorado2k]

Word is GM is bringing back Pontiac.
Full page ad in this months Car & Driver Magazine. Thoughts?

[Big Dave]

I like the Pontiac brand, I hope it does come back. My first close contact with an American car was a 68 Pontiac Parisienne, a friend of the family who lived with us for a while had a gold 4 door with a 327 and column shift 3 speed auto. I know Parisienne wasn't the name used in the US, but they thought it would sell better than Catalina over here. I loved the big bench seats and the V8 rumble as we cruised around.

I wonder what it will come back as, electric only, probably, but maybe electric 2 seat sports cars, electrified Firebird anyone.

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[Klasse Act]

I like the Pontiac brand, I hope it does come back. My first close contact with an American car was a 68 Pontiac Parisienne, a friend of the family who lived with us for a while had a gold 4 door with a 327 and column shift 3 speed auto. I know Parisienne wasn't the name used in the US, but they thought it would sell better than Catalina over here. I loved the big bench seats and the V8 rumble as we cruised around.

I wonder what it will come back as, electric only, probably, but maybe electric 2 seat sports cars, electrified Firebird anyone.

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Yeah the Parisiene name was also used for the car in Canada and growing up in Detroit we ofcoarse would always see Canadian cars all the time.

I'm not sure about the Canadian-spec car but I see they put a s/b Chevy in the Aussie-spec car, strange that they did that as far back as the late 60's

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[Setec Astronomy]

Word is GM is bringing back Pontiac.
Full page ad in this months Car & Driver Magazine. Thoughts?

Even as a former Pontiac owner, that sounds like a dumb idea. A lot of the problems GM had, or at least a lot of the criticisms, were that they were making essentially the same car underneath, with different sheet metal, and selling it under different names. There was the famous picture on the cover of Forbes or Fortune or Businessweek (Fortune--here it is: https://www.hemmings.com/stories/202...n-the-eighties ) of the X-based A-Bodies. While it wasn't exactly true, it was close enough, and...there's too much to say about this, I'd be writing my own magazine article and no one wants to hear from me anyway.

I like the Pontiac brand, I hope it does come back. I wonder what it will come back as, electric only, probably, but maybe electric 2 seat sports cars, electrified Firebird anyone.

That would certainly be faster (0-60) than any previous Firebird, interesting idea, but not sure that would fit with Firebird enthusiasts...just like the I5N isn't probably the cup of tea for other N owners who might be quoted in this post.

I know Parisienne wasn't the name used in the US

Yeah the Parisiene name was also used for the car in Canada and growing up in Detroit we of course would always see Canadian cars all the time.

We did have a Parisienne here in the US, I'm not going to cheat by looking it up, because I always like to go head-to-head with Klasse on our obscure automotive knowledge (and I always lose), but it was either what they called the G-body, which was the old A-special, after they dumped the A's for the W(?)-bodies in the late 80's early 90's, or it was a B-body (or maybe both at different times?). I just remember Pontiac was selling a Parisienne, and it was a RWD, after they had switched that segment to FWD, so it was either a Grand Prix or a Bonneville under another name. (Ok, I looked it up, it was a B-body in the early-to-mid 80's)

[Klasse Act]

The G-bodies were Malibus, Monte Carlos, Grand Prixs, Regals and Cutlass'. The series ran from 1978 thru early 1988, although the last G-bodies were made till mid-1987 until the plant closed in December of 1987.

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[Klasse Act]

https://youtu.be/GacP0ap776Y?si=n2i0qfCSX-zC_89V

This is pretty good doc, sad at the same time and down right goofy as F (chime back in here if you know the part I'm talking about)

I'm glad I owned one from 1995-2000

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[Setec Astronomy]

Did they call them G-body from the beginning? Prior to '78 the 2-door versions of the Regal and Cutlass, and the GP's and Monte's were called A-special to differentiate them from their sedan brothers. The wheelbase may have been different.

[Klasse Act]

Did they call them G-body from the beginning? Prior to '78 the 2-door versions of the Regal and Cutlass, and the GP's and Monte's were called A-special to differentiate them from their sedan brothers. The wheelbase may have been different.

G-bodies are from 1978-88

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[MI Mike]

GM can bring back the Pontiac series but will the quality be the same as it was??
I doubt it. You can see alot of Bonneville's still around. Looking good.

[Setec Astronomy]

GM can bring back the Pontiac series but will the quality be the same as it was??
I doubt it. You can see alot of Bonneville's still around. Looking good.

What vintage are you talking about? Didn't they stop making Bonnevilles like 20 years ago...heck Pontiac has been closed for 16 years already. I thought they stopped making Bonny's about 2003 when they started bringing the Holden sedans in, what was that, the G8?