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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 General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to the convictions of General Motors (GM) and related companies that were involved in the monopolizing of the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines (NCL) and subsidiaries, as well as to the allegations that the defendants conspired to own or control transit systems, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
This ultimately did not happen; while the A-platform Chevrolet Celebrity and Pontiac 6000 were quickly discontinued, the A-body Buick Century and Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera remained in production until 1996. The plan was for seven GM plants that would each assemble 250,000 of the cars, or 21% of the total U.S. car market. [1]
This just in: A Midwest expat is urging GM to revive the Pontiac brand, a retiree mourns decline in car quality, a reader is frustrated with the GOP. Dumping Pontiac was a mistake. GM should bring ...
The location that Oakland inhabited was the original site of Cartercar when GM bought the company in 1909 by William Durant. [1] The plant ceased production of full-size Pontiacs after the 1980 model year but continued to build mid-size Pontiacs ('81-82 Grand Prix, '81 LeMans, '82 Bonneville G) until being idled on August 6, 1982. [2]
Why did General Motors (GM) fail? The first reason is bad financial policies. As I posted, for too many years GM used cheap cars as razors to sell consumers a monthly package of razor blades -- in ...
Robb Brown's roots with General Motors Co. (GM) run deep. His grandfather, Willis E. Brown Sr., founded Toledo's Brown Pontiac in 1926, which is currently the oldest seller of the GM brand in the ...
June 19, 2009: Deadline for filing all objections to the sale of General Motors. June 22, 2009: Deadline for making competing bids in the auction of General Motors' assets. June 25, 2009: Final hearing on the bankruptcy loan. July 10, 2009: Deadline for completion of the sale, requested by the U.S. Treasury and General Motors. [9] [10]