Pontiac Fiero News

Turning 21 can mean big changes - new opportunities, more respect and the chance to strike out on your own.

One day, perhaps not long from now, maybe even today, a group of car enthusiasts will be sitting around a garage somewhere bench racing and challenging each other's automotive trivia skills.

News of the planned December closings of three General Motors Service & Parts Operations facilities -- in Massachusetts, Florida and Ohio -- was met with shaking of heads and "I hope I can hang onto my job" attitude at the Swartz Creek SPO facility.

General Motors Corp. said a committee of bondholders has agreed to a sweetened deal to erase some of the automaker's debt in exchange for company stock.

Burns High School Advanced Trade and Industrial Studies students not only transformed a combustion engine car into an electric vehicle but won prizes with it in a competition in Raleigh.

Posted By kurtj10 23 hours, 44 minutes ago in Sports 1988 Pontiac Fiero featured a 2.5-liter, inline-four base engine rated at 98 hp and 135 ft-lbs of torque, or in the Formula and GT models, a 2.8-liter V6 rated at 135 hp and 160 ft-lbs of torque.

Joel Trematore's quite proud of his collector car, a 1958 two-door hardtop Bonneville.

KELLY JORDAN/The Times-Union This is what cool looks like: the 1963 Corvette split-window coupe.

Built in 1958, the Bonneville pioneered design hallmarks for the brand. Playing with the gargantuan body, Pontiac armed it with a big-block V8 displacing between 6.4-6.9 litres and power outputs ranging from 303-340hp. The last Bonneville made was the 9th generation model in 2005.

With General Motors recently announcing that it plans to discontinue its Pontiac brand, nostalgia appears to the next stop for the fabled line of vehicles.

A nearly lifelong resident of the state, shea s happy to continue exploring it, documenting her travels and finds on her blog, Flyover Land, and WCCO.com column, Wander Minnesota.

I've always loved cool cars. I've just never been the kind of person who wanted to spend money on them.

Aficionados lament General Motors' decision to end production of the brand now likely to be a hot classic Thank goodness "Smokey and the Bandit" was made in 1977 -- back when real men drove Pontiacs.

The 1963 Corvette Sting Ray was again the leading vote-getter. It crushed the Bandit's 1977 Firebird Trans Am, the second Pontiac it's sent to the scrap heap .

More than a decade ago, a 16-year-old girl was thrilled to have the keys to a 1987 Pontiac Sunbird.

When the news of Pontiac's demise broke this week, I thought to myself, "Oh no! Now I'll never own a Pontiac!" On the other hand, my next thought was immediately, "Wait. Did I ever actually want a Pontiac?" It's not like there haven't been some attractive models from the sporty offshoot of GM.

The Ford Model T, considered by many to be one of the most influential cars in automotive history, was bounced in the first round by the '82 Firebird Trans Am.

These are sad days for car nuts. General Motors Corp. made official this week what we suspected was coming: It will do away with Pontiac.

Before sitting down to write an auto-themed piece in support of our Coolest American Cars contest, I reached for the car-iest music I could think of: Bruce Springsteen's "Darkness on the Edge of Town." Alas, the case was empty, as I left the disc in the player of the rental Grand Marquis I used during a Valentine pilgrimage to Asbury Park.

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