It may look like a next generation Firebird, or a concept KITT for a Knight Rider movie that will never be made.
It may look like a next generation Firebird, or a concept KITT for a Knight Rider movie that will never be made.
A young man and his mid-80′s Pontiac Trans Am go turbo-boosting up a barrier on an Ohio highway, and it’s all caught on camera.
We’ve seen some poor excuses for movie car mock-ups before. A Ghostbuster’s Ecto-1 made from a Subaru Outback, KITT made out of a 1992 Firebird. But a ’94 Grand Am Batmobile? Yeeeeeeesh.
When we see tuner cars like this Walkinshaw Performance Holden Supercharged wagon, based on the Pontiac G8 GXP, a tear sheds from our eyes knowing the end of Pontiac has already passed.
Logos come and go, and tend to evolve with a company. Now that Pontiac is dead we will see an end to one classic automotive badge – The Pontiac Firebird.
I don’t know who is crazier – our friends and fellow car nuts at Jalopnik, who found this lifted Pontiac Aztek, or Canadian car lovers.
General Motors is really trying to unload all those left over Pontiac G6 models. Along with GMAC, dealers can offer up to 3.9% financing for any certified used G6 model.
Jalopnik did a search of AutoTrader.com for Pontiac G8 GXP’s and seems to have found the very last model.
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That’s right – Pontiac’s twitter page reported their final round up of vehicles left for sale in the US yesterday.