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100K+ Pre-Orders for Lordstown’s Pickup a ShockerJanuary 12, 2021 at 5:00 PM Lordstown Motors announced on Monday that they had exceeded 100,000 pre-orders for their Endurance light-duty, all-electric pickup, slated to begin production in September. While we covered the Endurance previously, we didn’t pay homage to where it’s being assembled. Lordstown has a long history as the place where Chevrolet and Pontiac vehicles came together. The […]
The post 100K+ Pre-Orders for Lordstown’s Pickup a Shocker appeared first on The Truth About Cars.Tags: Green, Industry, Electric Vehicles, Autos, Truck, Trucks, Chevrolet, Fuel Economy, Ev, Pontiac, Lordstown, Endurance, Pickup, News Blog, Commercial vehicle, All-electric 43 people like this. Like Breaking: 2021 North American International Auto Show CanceledJanuary 11, 2021 at 3:47 PM The 2021 Detroit Auto Show has been canceled. Originally set for summer, then pushed back to September due to COVID concerns, the show has now been binned completely. It’s unclear if that’s just for this year or permanently. In its place will be a six-day event called “Motor Bella” that will take place in the […]
The post Breaking: 2021 North American International Auto Show Canceled appeared first on The Truth About Cars.Tags: Media, Auto Shows, Autos, Breaking News, Detroit Auto Show, North American International Auto Show, Naias, Bella, Pontiac, News Blog, M1 Concourse, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID, Covid19 16 people like this. Like Junkyard Find: 2010 Pontiac G6January 4, 2021 at 9:00 AM When The General decided to eliminate the Oldsmobile brand— I’m still convinced that the main reason for the execution was the syllable Old in the marque’s name— the process took nearly a half-decade, with nostalgia-drenched “Final 500” editions of the last Oldsmobile models released with great solemnity. Even the ho-hum Silhouette minivan got a Final […]
The post Junkyard Find: 2010 Pontiac G6 appeared first on The Truth About Cars.Tags: Colorado, Autos, 2010, Denver, Pontiac, ECOTEC, Down On The Junkyard, Junkyard, Junkyard Find, 2010s, G6, GM Death Watch, Fleet Cars, 2010 Pontiac G6, Fleet Car, Pontiac G6 14 people like this. Like Parties on wheels roll on as street racers, illegal stunt drivers flout pandemic lockdownsDecember 29, 2020 at 1:41 PM  Tags: News, California, Los Angeles, Sport, Crash, Soccer, Manchester, California Highway Patrol, Google Earth, Bmw, Disneyland, CHP, Orange County, Riverside County, Lapd, Perdue 89 people like this. Like Drivers at deadly street races, takeovers unfazed by COVID-19 restrictionsDecember 29, 2020 at 1:41 PM Tags: News, California, Los Angeles, Sport, Crash, Soccer, Manchester, California Highway Patrol, Google Earth, Bmw, Disneyland, CHP, Orange County, Riverside County, Lapd, Perdue 116 people like this. Like The little brother of war: The history of lacrosseDecember 29, 2020 at 7:23 AM  Tags: Europe, UK, New York, US, America, Hillary Clinton, Innovation, Manchester, Great Lakes, North America, Montreal, Ball, Ontario, State, Pontiac, Dakota 113 people like this. Like Nikola shares drop as GM pulls plug on investment dealNovember 30, 2020 at 9:36 AM GM is backing away from an agreement to take a stake in electric automaker Nikola Corp, marking the collapse of a deal that has been problematic since it was announced just two months ago.
Shares of Nikola plummeted more than 20% in pre-market trading Monday morning.
GM has instead signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to supply Nikola with its Hydrotec fuel cell system. This supplier agreement replaces its previous transaction announcement made on Sept. 8, 2020 to take a 11% stake in...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, General Motors, Automotive, Gm, Michigan, Pontiac, U S Securities and Exchange Commission, Nikola, Doug Parks GM, Nikola Corp, Hindenburg Research, Stephen Girsky, Shares of Nikola, Hydrotec, Trveor Milton 41 people like this. Like One Be Lo – “B.A.B.Y. (Being A Black Youth)” (Album)November 7, 2020 at 3:46 PM  Tags: Albums, Jazz, Pontiac, One Be Lo, Eric G 68 people like this. Like So Far, Trump’s ‘Army’ Of Poll Watchers Looks More Like a Small PlatoonNovember 2, 2020 at 2:10 PM  Tags: News, Minnesota, Law, Congress, Colorado, Kentucky, Wilco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Georgia, Joe Biden, Austin, Gop, House, Arizona, Davis 100 people like this. Like Junkyard Find: 1990 Geo Prizm with 321,981 milesNovember 2, 2020 at 9:00 AM The General established the Geo brand for the 1989 model year, as a way to move low-priced iron designed and/or built by Toyota, Suzuki, and Isuzu (for some reason, Daewoo-built cars didn’t get sheltered under the Geo banner, so the LeMans retained Pontiac badges for its entire 1988-1993 sales run here). Of all the Geos, […]
The post Junkyard Find: 1990 Geo Prizm with 321,981 miles appeared first on The Truth About Cars.Tags: Colorado, Autos, Toyota, Denver, 1990s, 1990, Pontiac, Corolla, Daewoo, Toyota Corolla, NUMMI, Isuzu, Geo, Down On The Junkyard, Junkyard, Junkyard Find 27 people like this. Like How the Mustang evolved over 56 years, from sports car to electric carOctober 14, 2020 at 1:00 PM The Ford Mustang continues to be America's most recognizable sports car, and one of its most long-running.
But it's about to undergo its biggest transformation yet with the upcoming all-electric Mustang Mach-E.
We break down all the changes and innovations the Ford Mustang has undergone in its 56 years that have made it so iconic.
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Following is a transcript of the video.Aj Caldwell: This here is Ford's latest Shelby Mustang. At 760 horsepower,...Tags: Transportation, Video, Cars, America, Trends, Fox, Ford Mustang, Ford, Epa, Chevy, Bmw, Lima, Mustang, Nicolas Cage, Pontiac, Shelby 41 people like this. Like RIP Robert BechtleSeptember 25, 2020 at 7:10 PM  Tags: Jason Kottke, Pontiac, Arinze Stanley, Robert Bechtle, Whitney Alameda Gran Torino 60 people like this. Like Junkyard Find: 1988 Pontiac Fiero CoupeAugust 31, 2020 at 8:00 AM The Pontiac Fiero started out as an innovative sports-car design, got bean-countered into an overweight parts-bin commuter car with embarrassingly public reliability problems, then got a complete redesign in 1988… which turned out to be the year of its demise. Here’s one of those final Fieros, found in a Colorado car graveyard last year. The […]
The post Junkyard Find: 1988 Pontiac Fiero Coupe appeared first on The Truth About Cars.Tags: 1988, Colorado, Autos, 1980s, Pontiac, Pontiac Fiero, Down On The Junkyard, Junkyard, Junkyard Find, Mid-engine, Fiero, 1988 Pontiac Fiero, Mid-engined Cars 2 people like this. Like Rare Rides: A 1986 Pontiac 1000 – Preserved PerformanceAugust 13, 2020 at 12:03 PM The Rare Rides series has previously featured many Pontiacs, and today’s hatchback is our ninth to wear the Red Arrow badge. It’s also the smallest Pontiac we’ve ever featured. It’s not a Chevette, but it is the Chevette’s sporty Driving Excitement cousin! By the mid-Seventies, it was time for General Motors to shake up its […]
The post Rare Rides: A 1986 Pontiac 1000 – Preserved Performance appeared first on The Truth About Cars.Tags: General Motors, Autos, Pontiac 5 people like this. Like New Wisconsin State Record - 209 MilesAugust 10, 2020 at 9:19 AM  Tags: Chico, Sse, Illinois, Rantoul, Pontiac, Greg, Bloomington, Danny, Champaign, Hinckley, Sheridan, Illinois River, Fox River, Champaign IL, Larry Bunner, Greg Dinauer 129 people like this. Like QOTD: The One That Got Away?July 22, 2020 at 9:07 AM Surfing around the Twitter machine the other day, I saw a reference to the late, not-so-great Pontiac Aztek. It occurred to me that despite working in the service trenches at a Pontiac store for a summer, and despite once working alongside someone who owned an Aztek, I’m not sure I’ve ever driven one. Which got […]
The post QOTD: The One That Got Away? appeared first on The Truth About Cars.Tags: Autos, Qotd, Pontiac, News Blog, Question of the Day 46 people like this. Like Junkyard Find: 2009 Pontiac G3 WaveJuly 6, 2020 at 8:09 AM The years 2008 and 2009 were interesting times for GM, with the company filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on June 1, 2009 and the Pontiac Division clearly on the ropes (despite the Bondo applied over Pontiac’s rusty image by the Solstice). To The General’s warlords, only one solution to Pontiac’s woes made sense: take the […]
The post Junkyard Find: 2009 Pontiac G3 Wave appeared first on The Truth About Cars.Tags: South Korea, Colorado, Gm, Autos, Denver, 2009, Pontiac, Daewoo, Chevrolet Aveo, Down On The Junkyard, Junkyard, Junkyard Find, Bondo, Korean Cars, Miserable Econoboxes, 2000s 47 people like this. Like Rare Rides: The 1986 Pontiac Grand Prix 2+2, Not Actually Named AerocoupeJune 29, 2020 at 12:20 PM Rare Rides previously examined a rare Grand Prix. It was from a Pepsi contest and separated from the coupe you see here by only three years. Today we consider the end of an era for Grand Prix, with the very special 2+2. Pontiac’s full-size V8 Grand Prix coupe debuted for the 1962 model year as […]
The post Rare Rides: The 1986 Pontiac Grand Prix 2+2, Not Actually Named Aerocoupe appeared first on The Truth About Cars.Tags: Autos, Pontiac, Pepsi 10 people like this. Like Junkyard Find: 2008 Pontiac SolsticeJune 8, 2020 at 12:41 PM Quick, what was the final new Pontiac model introduced before the marque’s demise in 2010? The G3, a Pontiac-badged Chevy Aveo (itself a rebadged Daewoo Kalos, which makes The Final Pontiac first cousin to the Ravon Nexia R3). We remember a Pontiac model from slightly earlier in the chaos of mid-to-late-2000s GM much better: the […]
The post Junkyard Find: 2008 Pontiac Solstice appeared first on The Truth About Cars.Tags: Colorado, Gm, Autos, Convertible, 2008, Pontiac, Solstice, Down On The Junkyard, Junkyard, Junkyard Find, Chevy Aveo, 2000s, Pontiac Solstice, Saturn Sky, GM Death Watch, Daewoo Kalos 10 people like this. Like Pontiac Fiero Collection Swept Away in Michigan FloodMay 21, 2020 at 10:12 AM Multiple dam failures brought on by prolonged and intense rain in central Michigan saw a record surge of water sent down the Tittabawassee River last night. Following the breach of the Edenville and Sanford dams, water levels peaked at 35 feet in downstream Midland, MI, breaking the previous record by more than a foot. In the […]
The post Pontiac Fiero Collection Swept Away in Michigan Flood appeared first on The Truth About Cars.Tags: Heritage, Autos, Michigan, Floods, Natural Disasters, Pontiac, Pontiac Fiero, News Blog, Collector Cars, Tittabawassee River, Fiero, Edenville, Michigan Flood 15 people like this. Like Coronavirus cancels or alters summer events on LA, Long Beach waterfrontMay 13, 2020 at 6:40 PM  Tags: News, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Port Of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Chevrolet, Local News, Naples, Bay, San Pedro, Dwight, Mary, Pontiac, Los Angeles County, Coast Guard 107 people like this. Like Rare Rides: Aggressive Luxury With the 1977 Pontiac Can AmApril 9, 2020 at 12:04 PM Rare Rides reviews another Pontiac today. And much like the recently featured Bonneville, it’s large and in charge, from the Seventies, and has two doors. Let’s see how much horsepower the 1977 Can Am gained through stickers and spoilers. The Can Am was one of the final developments of the fourth-generation Le Mans. A brand […]
The post Rare Rides: Aggressive Luxury With the 1977 Pontiac Can Am appeared first on The Truth About Cars.Tags: General Motors, Muscle cars, Classic Cars, Editorials, Gm, Autos, Le Mans, 1970s, Pontiac, Grand Prix, News Blog, Pontiac Grand Prix, Coupes, V8, Can-Am, Malaise Era 2 people like this. Like Coronavirus leads some Southern California police stations to close doors to publicMarch 17, 2020 at 6:02 PM  Tags: News, California, Police, Sport, Soccer, Orange County, Public Safety, Southern California, Moreno Valley, Garcia, Pontiac, Los Angeles County, Torres, Santa Ana, Corona, Fontana 142 people like this. Like Rare Rides: A Stunning 1978 Pontiac Bonneville CoupeMarch 10, 2020 at 12:57 PM Pontiac is one of the most featured marques of the Rare Rides series, and to date there have been seven of its models represented here. Today’s Rare Ride was in showrooms the very same time as the odd and short-lived Sunbird Safari Wagon, but was intended to entice a much more traditional customer. Let’s have a […]
The post Rare Rides: A Stunning 1978 Pontiac Bonneville Coupe appeared first on The Truth About Cars.Tags: Autos, Pontiac 32 people like this. Like GM reveals an EV for (almost) every purse and purposeMarch 7, 2020 at 12:46 PM Ed Niedermeyer
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Ed Niedermeyer is an author, columnist and co-host of The Autonocast. His book, Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors, was released in August 2019.
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General Motors’ EV day didn’t just mark the launch of ...Tags: Electric Vehicle, Column, America, Tech, General-motors, Tesla, Automotive, Mary Barra, Gm, Automotive Industry, Toyota, Volkswagen, Rolls-royce, Chevrolet, Nissan, Detroit 2 people like this. Like Is it still hip to be square?February 21, 2020 at 11:09 AM Hasn't the "refrigerator box on wheels" fad kind of faded out?This looks like a Pontiac TranSport that got saved from the crusher about a third of the way through the process. https://t.co/kw6Ml0MEWD — Tamara K. (@TamSlick) February 21, 2020 [Author: Tam]Tags: Guns, Tam, Pontiac, Zoom zoom, Tamara K 30 people like this. Like Pictures Of The Pontiac Club De Mer, The Jet Age-Inspired Concept Car Which Was Built In 1956February 9, 2020 at 7:40 AM The Pontiac Club de Mer was a purpose-built, experimental car that was built by Pontiac for the General Motors Motorama in 1956 to celebrate General Motors’ commitment to futuristic design. The brainchild of GM engineer-designer, Harley Earl (Paul Gillian was also involved being the Pontiac Studio head at the time), the “de Mer” was a two-door sport Roadster that incorporated innovative...
SourceTags: Design, Technology, Cars, General Motors, Gm, Retro, Concepts, 1950s, Pontiac, Pontiac Club de Mer, General Motors Motorama, Harley Earl Paul Gillian, Pontiac Studio 41 people like this. Like Aretha Franklin family drama plays out in Pontiac courtroom in latest estate hearingFebruary 4, 2020 at 7:26 PM Little was resolved during Tuesday's brief proceeding in Oakland County, but divisions among the Queen of Soul's family members reared up once again.
[Author: Detroit Free Press]Tags: Religion, Pontiac, Detroit Free Press, Oakland County, Franklin 5 people like this. Like Mark the New GM Hummer Revival as ModelJanuary 15, 2020 at 10:26 PM  Tags: Cars, General Motors, Ford, Gm, Chrysler, Lincoln, Dodge, Chevrolet, Henrik Fisker, Saab, Branding, Fiat Chrysler, Bob Lutz, Opel, Buick, Pontiac 149 people like this. Like QOTD: Back From the Dead?January 13, 2020 at 9:04 AM Steph brought us news on Friday about Hummer’s imminent return. In an about-face from the gas-guzzling image it cultivated fifteen years ago, earning it scorn and ridicule from the wheat-n-grain types, the name is going to be appended to an electric pickup. Sure, it isn’t going to be a standalone brand, instead as part of […]
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