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- Based: Detroit, Michigan
- Oakland Car Company founded in 1907
- Founded in Pontiac, Michigan
- Founded: 1926
- Founder: General MotorsEdmunds.com: Pontiac History
- Products: Mainstream cars
- Marketed as the "athletic" brand
- Slogan: "We are driving excitement."Textart.ru: Database of Car Slogans
- In Transformers, the Autobot Jazz turned into a Pontiac Solstice
- General Motorsannounced that they are discontinuing the Pontiac brand on April 27, 2009 WashingtonPost.com: GM to Cut 21,000 Jobs, Eliminate Pontiac (April 27, 2009)
- Pontiac will join the ranks of Saturn, Saab and Hummer as brands that did not survive the economic crisisEdmunds: http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=146706 Pontiac Is Dead (April 23, 2009)
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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.
General Motors outlined its "faster, deeper" reorganization plan in an announcement on April 27, 2009. General Motors announced the end of the Pontiac brand. Pontiac's brand status was changed from mainstream to "niche" or "specialty" in General Motors' viability plan of December 2008.Edmunds: http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=146706 Pontiac Is Dead (April 23, 2009) WashingtonPost.com: GM to Cut 21,000 Jobs, Eliminate Pontiac (April 27, 2009)
Timeline
- 1907: Oakland Car Company foundedEdmunds.com: Pontiac History
- 1909: Oakland Car Company bought by General MotorsEdmunds.com: Pontiac History
- 1926: FoundedCar Wallpapers: Pontiac (March 14, 2007)
- 1933: Began producing cars that used straight eight-cylinder engineRemarkable Cars: Pontiac Pictures and Specifications
- 1948: Hydra-matic automatic transmission introducedPontiac Early Times Chapter: 1948 Pontiac
- 1961: Pontiac won the Motor Trend "Car of the Year" awardRemarkable Cars: Pontiac Pictures and Specifications
- 1976: Fiftieth anniversary
- 1982: New slogan We Build Excitement debuted
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Pontiac Questions
I just got code po420 on my 2002 Pontiac, I need to take a trip from Colorado to Penn. in two weeks, is it ok to drive? 3 AnswersThe problem is most likely one of the O2 sensors in the car. If you take the car to a dealer or a shop they can hook the car up to diagnostic equipment that wi... read more
Were you surprised that GM dropped the Pontiac brand? 2 AnswersNot at all. These companies have been wildly mismanaged and the only way for them to survive is to focus. They need to reduce the number of brands and models to... read more
Why is GM getting rid of Pontiac? 4 AnswersThey are a brand that has been plagued by bad product decisions over the past two decades. Cars like the Aztec, and Sunfire hurt their brand image. Currently t... read more -
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