Why don't Pontiac let the movie use Trans-Ams?
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I was pretty sure they were '66s in xXx but one of my friends, the so called "expert" swore up and down it was a '68. I couldn't remember which year was which with the tail lights, but now that I know ...
While we're discussing Pontiac, does anyone remember or know what their original (aka 2 year ago) plan was for the F-body? I rememeber something about them wanting to kill off the line but bring it back in a few years as a modern classic, such as was done with Ford's Thunderbird. I know the excuse for killing the F-bodies were poor sales, but I always had the gut reaction that the Corvette boys got tired of a pony car creeping closer and closer to their performance level for half the price Anyone know if the nameplates (Firebird/Camaro) are coming back?
I was pretty sure they were '66s in xXx but one of my friends, the so called "expert" swore up and down it was a '68. I couldn't remember which year was which with the tail lights, but now that I know ...
While we're discussing Pontiac, does anyone remember or know what their original (aka 2 year ago) plan was for the F-body? I rememeber something about them wanting to kill off the line but bring it back in a few years as a modern classic, such as was done with Ford's Thunderbird. I know the excuse for killing the F-bodies were poor sales, but I always had the gut reaction that the Corvette boys got tired of a pony car creeping closer and closer to their performance level for half the price Anyone know if the nameplates (Firebird/Camaro) are coming back?
Corvettes aside it was a straight business decision based on lack of sales. The original plan was to kill them off in 1996, but internally people fought to keep the F-Body alive for a few more years and they won their case and got a slight front/rear redesign and engine upgrade from LT1 to LS1 in 98. GM decided in 96 to not upgrade the chassis to become compliant with '03 safety laws so that didn't look to bright for its future as well as an underused plant with meager production due to very little sales.Chuckysan wrote:While we're discussing Pontiac, does anyone remember or know what their original (aka 2 year ago) plan was for the F-body? I rememeber something about them wanting to kill off the line but bring it back in a few years as a modern classic, such as was done with Ford's Thunderbird. I know the excuse for killing the F-bodies were poor sales, but I always had the gut reaction that the Corvette boys got tired of a pony car creeping closer and closer to their performance level for half the price Anyone know if the nameplates (Firebird/Camaro) are coming back?
As for the future, Scott Settlemire, who was the Assistant Camaro Brand Manager and is now on the Corvette team, attends many F-Body gatherings across the country, he also posts on a few F-Body message boards. He swears up and down that GM is thinking about making a future Camaro true to its heritage RWD, V8, 2 doors. The current program to develop the Camaro is "unofficial" but there are still motorheads at GM working on their own time (read: overtime) putting together businesses cases for a new Camaro, and submitting them. As Settlemire likes to say Camaro is still one of the most recognized car names in North America. It remains to be seen which RWD chassis they'll use. As for the Firebird/Trans Am, no word on its future as it seems to get ignored in the discussion and there's no one really spearheading an effort to revive this nameplate, unfortunately.
I wouldn't mind if the next Camaro looked like this:
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Speaking of Pontiac Trans Am and television have you seen that Mountain Dew commercial were the two guys are in the car which is clearly a Pontiac. They drive the car up into the air and the one guy catches the soda from the boy who is about to drink it and the driver drinks it in mid air.
It has the familiar Firebird logo on the hood and also for about a second you can see the little Pontiac logo on the front. The car looked to be one of the older Trans Am from the late 70's.
They let them use a Pontiac in that commercial.
It has the familiar Firebird logo on the hood and also for about a second you can see the little Pontiac logo on the front. The car looked to be one of the older Trans Am from the late 70's.
They let them use a Pontiac in that commercial.
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Hey I found a picture of the car from that Mountain Dew ad. Just go to this site.
http://www.pontiac.com/firebird/images/brand_photo5.jpg
http://www.pontiac.com/firebird/images/brand_photo5.jpg
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It's one of my favorite commercials...
Big file, short clip: 2.5 MB, 15 seconds
http://www.newknightrider.com/mpegs/dew.mpg
This Trans Am does the barrel-roll that KITT talked about doing in Slammin' Sammy.
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Big file, short clip: 2.5 MB, 15 seconds
http://www.newknightrider.com/mpegs/dew.mpg
This Trans Am does the barrel-roll that KITT talked about doing in Slammin' Sammy.
Mike
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