Pontiac Automobiles Blog

Among superstitious folk, Friday the 13th is cause for concern. While many think Friday the 13th's unlucky reputation is a load of bull, some cars are without a doubt inherently unlucky, whether it because they were ill-timed releases or just ignored by its manufacturer after debuting. So it gives us ...    Read more

The theme Hot Rod's new "Roadkill" series is low-budget road trips, and to kick it off, Mike Finnegan and David Freiburger of Hot Rod magazine are given a total budget of $1500 to buy a car, purchase fuel, drive home, attempt to re-sell the car, and somehow come out ahead in the ...    Read more

A number of General Motors vehicles are under investigation for a possible defect stemming from the automatic gear shift indicator. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened the probe Monday after received reports of the defect. According to the NHTSA, the indicators may falsely show that the car is ...    Read more

The Problem: During crashworthiness testing of the new Chevrolet Caprice PPV (which, like the G8, is derived from the Holden Commodore), GM discovered if the front passenger was a female in the 5th height percentile and the seat placed in its forwardmost position, the seat position sensor would ...    Read more

When General Motors discontinued its Saturn and Pontiac brands in 2009, it lost the faith of many consumers: The majority of owners of those vehicles have since replaced them with non-GM products. According to the Detroit News, two-thirds of Saturn drivers and three-quarters of Pontiac owners who replaced their ...    Read more

Back in 1940, a lot of things we take for granted today were then the peak of technical progress. Helicopters, for example had just been invented a year prior by Igor Sikorsky. In 1940, the first color television was invented and the first of what would become known as the ...    Read more

Deliveries of the first Chevy Caprice police cars to law enforcement agencies are underway, according to Automotive News. Quietly inserted into GM’s monthly sales release for May, the automaker reported that 23 fleet-only Caprice models were sold. According to Automotive News, these cars were the Detective versions, not ...    Read more

An all-new, next-generation Toyota Corolla is expected to arrive within the next two years, but there's still one unknown: will that car again spawn a hatchback variant for North America? New reports suggest Toyota officials are still mulling whether or not to continue the Matrix hatchback for a third ...    Read more

If you haven’t blinked in the past three years, you might have remembered the Pontiac G8 ST concept, a handsome quasi-pickup that hearkened back to the Chevrolet El Camino car-based pickup. Unfortunately, the idea was canned (as was Pontiac itself) before any examples could find their way into U.S. showrooms. ...    Read more

Australians have all the luck.  In addition to wild kangaroos and koalas, car-based trucks, also known as Utes, roam the country. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Holden Ute, Holden will be introducing a series of special edition Utes to celebrate -- including the Thunder Ute model. Differentiating the Thunder ...    Read more

If the movie "Smokey and the Bandit" has a special place in your heart—and particularly if you have a Pontiac Trans Am in your garage—you need to check out the Bandit Run, a road trip that celebrates the movie and the car that made it great. Automobile Magazine went along on ...    Read more

John Z. DeLorean had his pet projects during his tenure at General Motors, but none were quite as passionate as his drive to give Pontiac a small, affordable sports car. That car, the 1964 Pontiac XP-833 Banshee, never made it to production -- but you can buy one of the ...    Read more

The Woodward Dream Cruise happens this weekend in Detroit, Mich., and in honor of the muscle car-heavy celebration, we're bringing you a muscle car-related Potential Purchase of the Week. We didn't want to bring you a stereotypical muscle car, so we give you a 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix LJ Coupe. ...    Read more

If, while mourning the late Pontiac G8, you wondered what a 600-horsepower G8 station wagon would look like, your answer has arrived. Walkinshaw Performance recently got its hands on a Holden Commodore SS-V Special Edition -- which utilizes the Pontiac’s front fascia -- and tuned it to its heart’s content. ...    Read more

Following the investigation launched by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, General Motors announced today it is recalling 1.3 million cars for issues pertaining to the power steering assist.Cars recalled include the 2005-2010 Chevrolet Cobalt, the 2007-2010 Pontiac G5, along with the 2005-2006 Pontiac Pursuit (a Canadian-market model) and G4 ...    Read more

Is it a Pontiac? Is it a Toyota? Well, the Vibe hatchback was a bit of both. Sold by General Motors dealers, the five-door was largely designed and manufactured by Toyota -- which caused the car to be lumped into the Japanese automaker’s recent rash of recalls.Although it was originally ...    Read more

Wish you could mix the versatility of a wagon with the hairy brawn of a Firebird? You may want to hit RM Auction’s Automobiles of Amelia Island auction on March 13. One of two prototypes for a 1985 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Kammback will be sold to the highest bidder. ...    Read more

After the 2009-2010 Pontiac Vibe was lumped into Toyota's recalls for sticking accelerator pedals and faulty floormats, General Motors performed its own tests to illustrate that the car -- like other Toyotas -- can safely be stopped.“We ran the Vibe wide open at 60 miles an hour and the brakes ...    Read more

General Motors is offering big incentives to dealerships if they can sell remaining Pontiac and Saturn units by the end of the year. GM is offering a whopping $7000 for each new Pontiac or Saturn a dealer is able to sell. The cars must be sold to rental or service ...    Read more

If you wanted to give the gift of Pontiac for the holidays, you’d better act fast. According to a post on Pontiac’s official Twitter feed, there are only about 4300 cars unsold at dealers nationwide. Currently, Pontiac inventory includes: ...    Read more

Holden’s HSV E-series 2 may have used some Pontiac G8 parts, but the new Holden Commodore SS V-Series Special Edition models are G8s in everything but name. <P class=MsoNormal target="_blank"> As reported earlier this year, Holden was planning a limited-edition run of ...    Read more

Although General Motors should sell the last remaining Pontiac within the next few months, the automaker still aims to keep customers loyal to dealers and itself through top-notch service.After GM phased out its Oldsmobile division nearly five years ago, it lost a considerable amount of loyal customers. According to Automotive ...    Read more

We knew Holden planned on using leftover Pontiac G8 hoods for a special edition car, but we didn’t know the result -- the HSV E Series 2 -- would be so wild. <P class=MsoNormal> Although ...    Read more

If the prospect of picking up one of the last Pontiacs sounds appealing, you’d better move fast. General Motors says the wind-down of Pontiac is moving quicker than it expected, and approximately 16,000 cars remain at dealers.Given the manner GM euthanized its Oldsmobile, Pontiac’s quick death may seem surprising. In ...    Read more

It was bad enough when General Motors announced it was going to kill Pontiac--and the excellent G8 sedan along with it--but then the General toyed with us, giving us conflicting reports over whether the G8 would be sold as a Chevrolet once Pontiac goes away. (It won't.) Now we're hearing ...    Read more