Guide Note
Pontiac is an American-based car manufacturer founded in 1926. The company produces a variety of SUVs, mid-level cars and sports cars. Pontiac is owned by parent company General Motors.
Fast Facts
- Based: Detroit, Michigan
- Oakland Car Company founded in 1907
- Founded in Pontiac, Michigan
- Founded: 1926
- Founder: General Motors1
- Products: Mainstream cars
- Marketed as the "athletic" brand
- Slogan: "We are driving excitement."2
- In Transformers, the Autobot Jazz turned into a Pontiac Solstice
Timeline
- 1907: Oakland Car Company founded1
- 1909: Oakland Car Company bought by General Motors1
- 1926: Founded3
- 1933: Began producing cars that used straight eight-cylinder engine4
- 1948: Hydra-matic automatic transmission introduced5
- 1961: Pontiac won the Motor Trend "Car of the Year" award4
- 1976: Fiftieth anniversary
- 1982: New slogan We Build Excitement debuted
Pontiac Models
