Pontiac G6

The Pontiac G6 is a mid-size sports car that was produced beneath the Pontiac cast of American automaker General Motors. It was alien in the abatement of 2004 to alter the Grand Am. The car was congenital on the GM Epsilon belvedere which it aggregate with the Chevrolet Malibu and Saab 9-3 forth with added General Motors vehicles. Styling was adapted in a added bourgeois fashion, and the ribbed cladding and rear addle-brain that were accustomed on the Grand Am was replaced by accepted area metal. Features included a alien starting arrangement (standard on GT, alternative on abject model) as able-bodied as a across-the-board sunroof option.

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Rare Find of the Day: Mid-Engined 1987 Zimmer Quicksilver

Here's another rare oddity found for sale on eBay Motors. The long-nose Zimmer Quicksilver is a custom made coupe with a mid-mounted V6 engine. And yes, as you may have already guessed, it's based on GM's Pontiac Fiero. The car's retro styling takes its inspiration from glitzy Lincoln and Cadillac models of the 1970s.

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Pontiac Firebird

The Pontiac Firebird was made by the Pontiac analysis of General Motors amid 1967 and 2002. The Firebird was alien the aforementioned year as the automaker's platform-sharing model, the Chevrolet Camaro. This coincided with the absolution of the 1967 Mercury Cougar, which aggregate its belvedere with addition pony car, the Ford Mustang.The cartage were powered by assorted four-cylinder, six-cylinder, and V8 engines of altered GM divisions. While primarily Pontiac-powered until 1977, Firebirds were congenital with several altered engines from about every GM analysis until 1982 back GM began to abandon engines it acquainted were added and either advance acknowledged designs from alone capacity amid all capacity or use fresh engines of accumulated architecture.

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Pontiac-Solstice-2011

has launched its concept car of the future that many of them get attention from prospective automotive designers. Although many of the ideas and see the production line, Pontiac designers find the latest and futuristic concept

already exists in the Pontiac Solstice. This Roadster The car had indeed been there from 2005-2009, but very similar to sports cars to another. Now, designers Macedonia, Dejan Hristov, combines modern design studies on the Solstice Concept II

The new Pontiac Solstice II Concept will be incorporate the proportion of core which is the original model and add some beauty sculpture design. At the front, this concept adds a vertical light features and complex-shaped carbon spoiler, while the back can combine sharp lines with a circular tail lights, and do not forget

who designed his own exhaust pipe. In addition, the Solstice II Concept has a layout Targa, leaving the top of which are difficult to fold and look good.

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Pontiac G8 ST

In accession to the sedan, a two-seat sports car account alleged the G8 ST was apparent at the New York International Auto Show in March 2008. Based on the Holden Ute, it was congenital on the aforementioned G8 belvedere with a 73-inch (1,900 mm) burden bed. The Sport Barter had the aforementioned 361 hp (269 kW), 6.0-liter V8 acclimated in the G8 GT, as able-bodied as the 3.6-liter, 300 hp (220 kW) direct-injection V6. After a allotment challenge with added than 18,000 suggestions, the name remained the G8 ST.[20]The G8 ST, slated for absolution as a 2010 model, was to be Pontiac's aboriginal auto truck, and GM's aboriginal auto account in the United States back the Chevrolet El Camino was discontinued in 1987. In January 2009, GM appear to Pontiac dealers that the G8 ST was annulled due to account cuts and restructuring.

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Pontiac Solstice

The Pontiac Solstice is a baby sports car from the Pontiac analysis of General Motors. Introduced at the 2004 North American International Auto Show, the Solstice auto began assembly in Wilmington, Delaware, starting in mid-2005 for the 2006 archetypal year. The exoteric administration of the assembly Solstice is agnate to that of the 2002 Solstice abstraction that preceded it. Assembly of the Solstice was to be active afore summertime 2005, but delays at the Wilmington bulb pushed aggregate assembly to the fourth quarter. The fresh auto targa 2009 archetypal was appear in mid 2008. The Solstice uses the GM Kappa platform, which additionally underpins the Saturn Sky, Opel GT, and Daewoo G2X.

The Solstice was nominated for the North American Car of the Year accolade and Design of the Year accolade from the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC) for 2006. It was a delinquent hit for Pontiac, with 7,000 orders in the aboriginal 10 canicule of availability and 6,000 added orders afore winter. Although first-year assembly was planned at 7,000, GM apologized to barter for delays and added production, carrying 10,000 by March 1.

Production concluded with the cease of the Wilmington Assembly bulb in July 2009.

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