Pontiac

Hey, President Obama has found a way to quickly close Guantanamo Bay. He's going to turn it into a Pontiac dealership.

GM could reinstate Pontiac as the company's performance division with a lineup of rear-wheel drive cars.

That blurred the differences between brands and made it hard for consumers to tell a Chevy from a Pontiac or a Buick.

Letter "PONTIAC" , taken from the United States, Michigan, a place: Graphic logo is an arrow with a cross mark.

At least 500 more dealers will be dropped in the months to come as it closes or sells off its Hummer, Saturn, Saab and Pontiac brands.

The budding entrepreneurs look like an Oprah audience after learning that everyone is getting a free Pontiac.

"I think she did an oops, " said Secaur, who has lived on the streets around Pontiac for nearly two years.

GM is still expected to phase out or sell most of its other poorly performing brands, including Pontiac, Saab, and Saturn.

But with GM's decision to discontinue the Pontiac brand, the automaker decided to stop selling the Vibe.

Although the decision is still a ways off, the possibilities for Pontiac are quite intriguing.

The Pontiac President was understandably skeptical about the letter, but sent an engineer to check it out anyway.

Work, in this small mid western community, was almost as slow as his beat-up Pontiac, but he never quit looking.

Jazz's original alternate mode in "Transformers" (1984) was a Porsche sports car, but this was altered to become a Pontiac Solstice.

In the United States, G. M. is down to just four brands, after shedding Pontiac, Saab, Saturn and Hummer during its bankruptcy.

The Pontiac name, part of the car business since 1932 , could remain on some models, but may no longer be a separate division .

Black Jim politely eased him out of the taxi and into the old Pontiac .

GM's current plan calls for the re focusing on Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC, with Pontiac remaining as a niche brand.

Fox news channel Shepard Smith has just reported that GM will sell off the Pontiac brand and close even more factories.

GM's hemorrhaging continues, as the paring of Chevrolet's SS lineup follows the announcement of Pontiac's impending euthanization.

One has to be a certain age to appreciate these improvements; the first car I drove was a 1953 Pontiac.

It's also a fact that I recently purchased a new Pontiac and since then my trips to the store have created a problem.

And every wrong thing you've ever done (like, say, making the Pontiac Aztek, ) nags at them like a stain you put on their best rug.

G. M. said Pontiac would be a "focused brand" with fewer models.

That version of Pontiac would still have a sporting flair, but would also have a strong emphasis on good fuel economy.

Pontiac will be reduced to just one or two models and essentially cease to exist as a full line.

For now, we take this space to remember Pontiac's greatest hits - and some of its most humiliating misses.

The smaller brands -- Buick, Pontiac, Saturn -- would get first dibs ahead of GM's biggest and strongest brand, Chevrolet.

Pontiac, long known for its sporty designs and once marketed as GM's "excitement division" , is a prominent casualty.

For instance, a widow from Pontiac calls about her husband, a veteran who's just died.

Production of the Pontiac Vibe, which Nummi produces for GM, is due to end this month.

On a much larger scale, Motorati Island is an ambitious attempt by GM to promote its Pontiac brand.

Henderson agreed to close down Pontiac all together, but dug in on his heels to keep Buick and GMC.

G. M. also said it was considering its options for the Pontiac division.

Officially, nothing has changed with Pontiac's niche-brand status, until you hear differently.

Pontiac's market position through much of the 1960s, when it trailed only Chevrolet and Ford.

The NUMMI plant currently produces the Pontiac Vibe and Toyota Corolla and Matrix but will be losing the Vibe come August.

Melvin Feizel Boothe of Pontiac, Michigan, was The official Guinness World Record 'longest fingernails' holder in 2010 .

Once the home of General Motors' (GM) primary truck factory and the now-defunct Pontiac brand, the city entered into receivership in 2009.

This mode is found in Honda, Acura and Pontiac four-speed automatics and only uses the first three gear ratios.

Pontiac logo, the letters and graphics of two parts.

News AU estimates the end of the Pontiac G8 will cost Holden more than $750 million in lost revenue.

G. M. is also closing Pontiac, but it never tried to sell that brand.

The car shared the same platform and major components with the Pontiac Firebird, also introduced in 1967.

It ignited the muscle car craze and cemented Pontiac's identity.

As for the Pontiac division, it will disappear for good.

So will the Hummer, Pontiac, Saab and Saturn brands.

It also plans to close its Pontiac brand, which finished in 22nd place with 118 problems.

If you ask GM's current CEO, Fritz Henderson, the answer is a resounding "no" if we're talking about the Pontiac G8 GXP.

If GM doesn't take Waldron up on the offer , Pontiac will be shut down by 2010 .

GM shut down its Pontiac and Saturn brands last year, and sold off Saab a few weeks ago.

The carmaker is also to close its 83-year-old Pontiac brand and cut its dealership network from 6, 200 to 3, 600 by the end of 2010.

If GM decides it can make money on a Pontiac sale rather than letting it wind down, Pontiac could actually have a future beyond 2010.

A 1991 Pontiac Grand Prix model sells for under $ 20 000 but looks (on the outside, anyway) like last year's sporty $ 26 000 Turbo model.

A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors:

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