The 67 Goat 389, from Pontiac's heyday

Well, GM finally did it. After months of speculation, the General finally decided their most performance oriented brand could last no longer. It make me wonder how much of that was a PC oriented move, and how much of it was based on purely business considerations. When you’re taking so much money from a federal government that has indicated the public needs to start buying fuel efficient vehicles, how does it look to make vehicles such as the Pontiac G8? Especially that new G8 GXP with the breathed on V-8.

The brand that brought us the 389 Goat and the Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am will go in that good night, but will all performance offerings from GM do likewise? Due to budgetary concerns, they already killed their performance engineering division (PVO) that was responsible for the CTS Caddys and the ZR1 Corvette. Time will tell if the Corvette is the only performance oriented vehicle left at GM. I only hope it can hang on. After all, it is about the most fuel efficient, true, high performance vehicle in existance.

They killed off Oldsmobile a few years ago, and now Pontiac is gone. How has Buick managed to escape the chopping block for so long?

So long Chief!

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