Sorry to hear Pontiac is on the chopping block. My first vehicle was a '78 Pontiac Sunbird. Of course, it was a POS, but I loved it. Saturn and Saab - not too crazy about either. Hummer - the biggest freakin' mistake GM ever made. It was a joke to bring a military-ish vehicle for public use. My next vehicle will be a Ford. Hopefully, the tide is turning back to American manufacturing. Probably won't reap the benefits in my lifetime. We'll see. IMO. - Og

 

I read that 12 of 48 individual models will be axed.

The entire Hummer Brand (Which is supposedly now being sold to an undisclosed buyer)

Hummer H2

Hummer H3

Pontiac G5. (If not all of Pontiac)

Buick Lucerne (Or Lacrosse- one of the two)

Saturn Outlook

Saturn Sky

Saturn Aura

I think I also read the Trailblazer would get the axe too, but that can't be true- being at one time, the best-selling SUV.

If I find that article, I'll post it.

But, if anything is in the most trouble at GM, outside the 20,000 employees- are the Saturn, Pontiac, and Saab brands, in addition to the models mentioned above.


The one thing I never liked about GM was the rebadging of the same car- and selling it to the public as something different. I think this creative laziness, concealed in a blanket of R&D dollars saved and multiple reuses of the same platforms caused many America's to get bored. Ford & Chrysler are guilty of that too, but not to the extend GM was. Which is why GM is probably hurt worse than the other two.

 

Hummer was sold to a Chinese buyer.

 

My first new car was a Pontiac GTO. Sorry to see them go.

 

I wonder how I would feel if I ponyed up $35k-40k for a new 2010 Camaro only to have the company that sold it to me go bankrupt??
This country is in the crapper $ wise, I sure hope this Hindenburg starts to pull up soon. This stuff really doesn't hit you until you drive by a Gm dealership that used to be there just two weeks ago and now its a ghost town. :o

 

Wow this is amazing.. GM selling Hummer to China... What is this country coming too... Why don't we just sell everything we have to another country that way we can be under there mercy forever..... Instead of making what we need in this country we out source way too much....


James

 

As long as this undisclosed Chinese company doesn't start making H1's then it's tolerable.

 

Um, hasn't this been going on for at least a few years. Japan owns a ton of Wall St. As do others.

 

Waiting on the Pontiac G8 fire sale. I might be interested... - Og

 

Maybe China will take Hummer as part of a debt buy down...

I also heard the Camaro was going to cease to exist-too bad-first and last year I guess....

The sad thing is that the domestics did this to themselves...Open the door a crack and this is what happens...

 

They are killing the Camaro already?! Sports cars (except the Mustang) don't tend to last long. They say Mazda loses money on every RX8 sold, but they keep selling them. Mitsubishi still sells the Eclipse.

I haven't met a person yet who didn't like the new Camaro- I can't believe they're considering waxing it so soon. Say it ain't so!


That G8 is bad-****... I think the "weak" G8 has 400 HP. If Pontiac goes, it'll probably go too. Call it the "Chevy" G-8, and keep selling it.

 

Now you've met one, they're fugly...

 

Haha my buddy had a crap brown one we use to drive to HS in. Had the RTS, Radial Tuned Suspension It truly was a pos!

 

It sucks about Pontiac. Although the only 2 new Pontiacs I would buy are actually Holdens, it is an iconic muscle car brand. Sucks to see it die. GM isn't selling Holden, are they? Hopefully some rebadged Holdens will be sold as another GM brand.

 

Oh no! Now there will only be 3-5 verisons of the same vehicle!! :O