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| #5 |
5-06-2018 @ 09:58:37 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#2, Pontiac was the #8 selling brand in the US for 1985 alone, right ahead of Honda and right behind Nissan. The 6000 managed 154,000 sales that year, making it the 23rd most popular model in the country, selling only about 5,000 units below the Ford Mustang.
To put the numbers in greater perspective: http://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog...159-in-between/
Pontiac was doing just fine at the time. The 2000s killed them.
[Edited by Skid on 5-06-2018 @ 09:59:22 PM]
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| #7 |
5-07-2018 @ 01:50:16 AM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#6, Good grief, where are Tubbs and Crockett when you need 'em?
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5-07-2018 @ 04:24:34 PM |
| Posted By : Obsidian |
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Disclaimer - I used to be infatuated with the Fiero. I even tried working one into my redacted as the protagonists' car (a red 88GT non t-top, RSX 6-sp onto a 4.0 Olds Aurora V8). But looking back - I keep thinking my character would just be an typical asshole and have an RS4 - thereby avoiding the need to go through the trouble of explaining what kind of a clusterfuck the car was.
Being overtly different for the sake of being overtly different (re: heavily modified compact mid-engine car) is a fatal Mary Sue. I liked the car enough to put one in the story - but back then I couldn't even see how disjointed and out of place it was in the grand scheme of the story.
[Edited by Obsidian on 5-07-2018 @ 04:27:44 PM]
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5-14-2018 @ 04:29:14 PM |
| Posted By : Obsidian |
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#12, Not too far away from the people who've told me that the Pontiac Firebird is coming back BY Chevrolet.
"Nah man! In 2012 Pontiac is gonna come back! It's gonna be a special stand-alone brand within a brand! The TA will have it's own unique badging and bumpers! Its gonna be called 'Pontiac Firebird TransAM by Chevrolet'!"
"Why would they do that if Chevrolet already has the Camaro?"
"Shut up fag!"
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| #15 |
5-14-2018 @ 09:50:37 PM |
| Posted By : Obsidian |
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#14, That - and you can add car design student concept renderings to that too.
Give them the slightest whiff of a scrap of Pontiac revival news - and they start babbling like a recently deflowered teenage girl thinking that their first love is will stay with them forever. They just can't let go of the idea that Pontiac (the brand/sales channel) is fucking gone forever - and the only reason GM keeps re-registering the name is to preserve the trademark so they can sell Pontiac branded merch to the hopeless saps who want the brand back.
Imagine how foolish it would look if Scion fans were just as vocal and obnoxious about the return of Scion - and then have the gall to tell you that the xD and xA aren't "real Scions" at annual Scion summer reunions. I've seen die-hard Pontiac fans look indistinguishable.
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5-14-2018 @ 11:19:36 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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This is why I'm mainly glad to be a fan of defunct automakers. They can't disappoint me.
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5-15-2018 @ 04:14:24 PM |
| Posted By : Obsidian |
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#16, It was - and I actually liked it better than the overt xB.
But my point was that if someone only had a Sunfire or W-body Grand Prix - they would be excluded from an annual Pontiac reunion meeting because their Pontiac didn't meet an arbitrary admission standard of 'Pontiac-ness'; that the cars were FWD and had 'GM engines'.
If Scion fans were just as obtuse - the FRS would be derided as not being a real Scion because it's RWD and for being half-Subaru.
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