On September 1, 2009
Pontiac’s Last-Gasp Coupe is Gorgeous (but GM’s Slip is Showing)
Back in April, General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson said the company was taking “tough but necessary actions that are critical to GM’s long-term viability,” and that plan included cutting 21,000 jobs (a 34 percent workforce cut), reducing dealers by 42 percent (to 3,605 by the end of next year), shedding Saab, Saturn and Hummer—and “phasing out” Pontiac by the end of 2010. I covered the demise of Oldsmobile in 2000, invoking the 1905 song “In My Merry Oldsmobile,” which contained inspirational lyrics like, “Come away with me Lucille, In my merry Oldsmobile, Down the road of life we’ll fly, Automobubbling you and I.” Automobubbling? Maybe you had to be there. Pontiac has almost as colorful history as Oldsmobile, whose Curved…
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