RIP Pontiac

I didn’t understand a word of this but feel I am a better person for having read it.

You start engineering badgers and you thwart the will of God.

@Benedick: would it help you if I said that a Citation was a Phoenix was an Omega was a Skylark?

Remember the Caddy Cimarron? What a POS.

@Dodgerblue: Rebadged Chevy Cavalier. Horrid.

We had a Pontiac wagon late 70s, early 80s. Incredibly, my dad paid for the 8 track option despite the fact that the 8 track had already died.

car porn and stormy porn in one day? wow

@Jamie Sommers: And stupid Louisiana politicians … don’t forget them.

@blogenfreude: No.

@Dodgerblue: Now see we had a Cimarron and I loved it. I’ve written of it before. And how it would shed chrome. I’m still pulling bits out of the swamp garden. And it shrieked in cold weather if you tried to turn the wheel before it got warm. God I loved that car.

Aahh, the Cavalier, the most eastern european, even Soviet, car america ever made.

A complete piece of shit.

My dad, in his old age, owned 2 of them; they were the Dodge “cheesebox on a raft” old person’s car of the 90s.

Pieces of shit.

And that they threw some tacky upholstery and chrome-plated pastic gew gaws, and called it a “Cadillac,” just thinking about this makes me change my mind about the importance of saving the US auto industry.

The cavalier was the American Yugo. It was a piece of shit.

Any word from Lyle Lovitt on the Death of the Pontiac?

Roger Rabbit and Batman would have been comfortable in either of them rides up there.

Item of Interest – those GTIs you see in the video might have been loved in Germany, but they were made in … Pennsylvania. I owned a German-made Rabbit, drove a PA version, and kept the one I had.

@Jamie Sommers: Yeah. The testosterone is kind of thick – I think we need Homofascist or RomeGirl to post photos of hawt Italian men holding puppehs or something to balance it out.

@redmanlaw: Got my tix yesterday to see Lyle & his Large Band at the local winery venue. I generally see him 2-5 times a year….

@SanFranLefty: Did you see Lars Ulrich from Metallica on Rachel? I loved her description of how the music fit into her life – “it was for that period when I was doing what I shouldn’t have been doing.”

@redmanlaw: Uh, yeah, that kind of sums up my memories of Metallica. If Jamie Sommers isn’t my secret twin sister, then I feel like Rachel is my secret twin. It’s getting old how many of my friends will call me and say “Did you see Rachel? It’s like I’m listening to you!” – Except she’s smarter and cuter and richer than I am…

@Benedick: Good for you,
Benedick. At least you will never buy a car from one of us that purports to be quite another model. And (“planned obsolescense”?) You didn”t get that down your coal mines, or even in the potteries. I remember being perplexed as a kid of ten or so. An older kid told me about major auto-makers selling a car as top-of-the-line (the Cadillac!) for hundreds more, utilizing the same chassis, body. and engine design virtually identical. to the Buick (mom and pop) , Olds Mobile (already veiled in the mists of history) Pontiac Grandprix and GTO, muscle cars, and every auto renter’s Hawaiian nemesis, the bright red convertible compact Sunfire piece of merde. And the lowly Chevy. Homespun, but matchless for evocative model names: Malibu, Biscayne, Impala. Please excuse me for a minute or two. Sleep beckons.

@EffeteHipster: Funny – I rented a Pontiac Sunfire convertible when I went to Sanibel 13 or so years ago. Barely adequate – at least the top went down.

I think Mrs RML lived on Sanibel when she worked at a paper there.

@EffeteHipster: We didn’t buy it new. We bought it from a nice man who told us it had only had one owner who was an old lady who hardly used it except to go to church. He gave us a special low price too because he liked us so much. I loved all the little buttons and slides and electrical whatsits inside that were supposed to make things rotate. Some of them even worked.

I know nothing about American cars. Except that I like our Chrysler Sebring. And I enjoyed driving a Firebird once. And we had several Escorts. And a Taurus that felt a week wasn’t complete without a major breakdown.

@Benedick: For some reason the Sebring is regularly mocked over at Jalopnik. Sure it’s the prototypical rental car, but is it that bad?

@blogenfreude: I like it. I drove to Salt Lake City in it and had a fine time. You can fold down the seats and fill it with trees and shrubs. It gets pretty good mileage. It handles very well and I feel safe in it. We got it with a V6 engine and it tears up the road. Comfortable. Good value. Good car.

@blogenfreude: @Benedick:

I used to rent Sebring convertibles on a regular basis. I always enjoyed them. I’d buy a used one if the price was right. It’s a good convertible for a guy who wants take his family out for Sunday drives. I don’t know from sedans.

They redesigned them this year- I rented one this January and didn’t like it as much as the earlier years. I agree with jalopnik regarding the 2009’s