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To find out what cars cost the year you were born, GOBankingRates analyzed car price averages by year from 1950 to 2024, sourcing the historical prices of used and new automobiles from 1950 to ...
Pontiac G8 (2008–2009, rebadged Holden VE Commodore, Australia) Pontiac Grande Parisienne (1966–1969, Canada) Pontiac Laurentian (1955–1981, Canada) Pontiac Matiz (1998–2005, rebadged Daewoo Matiz, Mexico) Pontiac Matiz G2 (2006–2010, rebadged Daewoo Matiz, Mexico) Pontiac Montana SV6 (2005–2006, continues in production for Canada ...
Like all Canadian Pontiacs built from 1955 to 1970, Laurentians used full-size Chevrolet chassis, drive trains, and other parts, but using a body shell similar in style to, but not interchangeable with, the U.S. Catalina. For example, a 1964 Pontiac Laurentian looks like a Catalina, but has more in common with the Chevrolet Bel Air.
From 1954 through 1969, GM Canada produced a unique Bel Air-based Pontiac marketed as the Laurentian. While body panels resembled contemporary U.S. Pontiacs, the Canadian Pontiac Laurentian had the chassis, power train, wheelbase, even the interior (except for the instrument panel), of the Chevrolet Bel Air. These models were exported in SKD ...
The Grand Prix was an all-new model for Pontiac in the 1962 model year as a performance-oriented personal luxury car. [3] Based on the Pontiac Catalina two-door hardtop, Pontiac included unique interior trim with bucket seats and a center console in the front to make the new model a lower-priced entry in the growing personal-luxury segment. [3]
The designation 2+2 was borrowed from European sports car terminology, for a seating arrangement of two in front plus two in the rear. It was designated officially at Pontiac as a "regular performance" model, [2] a thoroughly confusing designation for a vehicle that was clearly intended to be to the Catalina platform what the GTO was to the A-body Lemans: the standard drivetrain was a 2-barrel ...
Pontiac, or formally the Pontiac Motor Division of General Motors, was an American automobile brand owned, manufactured, and commercialized by General Motors. It was originally introduced as a companion make for GM's more expensive line of Oakland automobiles. [ 3 ]
The 1962 hardtop coupe had a listed retail price of $3,349 ($33,733 in 2023 dollars [5]). [14] In 1962, the Bonneville coupe was offered along with the all new Pontiac Grand Prix which has the same luxurious interior of the Bonneville on the shorter Catalina wheelbase, and the Grand Prix was slightly more expensive and exclusive. [14]