Why Pontiac is no more

"carlifornia" (carlifornia) 01/23/2014 at 20:09 • Filed to: Pontiac, Aztek, Stinger

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Pontiac had this as a Concept:

but built this:

Casper > carlifornia 01/23/2014 at 20:22

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Both were utterly burn worthy in my mind.

carlifornia > Casper 01/23/2014 at 20:35

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well, at least the stinger didn't look like turd :D

HammerheadFistpunch > carlifornia 01/23/2014 at 20:42

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i posted that stinger concept video a little earlier. the 90's were a strange and interesting time.

trynthink > carlifornia 01/23/2014 at 20:48

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This is the whole story of GM, it seems. They had great concepts, but when it came time to execute, they couldn't do anything particularly well – build quality, styling, fit and finish... It seems like the only GM products from the 80s through the early 00s that were really impressive and/or class competitive were the ones where the product development team was isolated from normal GM practices (e.g. 1st gen Saturn, possibly also 1st gen Oldsmobile Aurora).

I mean, GM came up with cars like this (1992 Ultralite Concept):

...but then built uninspiring things like this:

carlifornia > HammerheadFistpunch 01/23/2014 at 21:07

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mostly a bit strange - in hindsight

RafelX > carlifornia 01/23/2014 at 21:09

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What's really disappointing to me is that the concept looked pretty nice. Nothing I would buy mind you, but much better than the final product. I always thought it was the small size of the wheel-tire combo that betrayed the image they were trying to project.

Oddly enough, the wheel issue never bothered me on the Buick Rendezvous.

Casper > carlifornia 01/23/2014 at 22:33

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I would be seriously worried if my turds came out that color...

carlifornia > Casper 01/24/2014 at 00:29

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eat a lot of peas and look and then compare to the color of Walther Whites Aztek :)

carlifornia > RafelX 01/24/2014 at 00:30

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That 'nothing I would buy' was exactly the point though :/

bob and john > carlifornia 01/25/2014 at 02:10

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...the stinger conccept doesnt actually look so bad....