GM Confirms Pontiac Phase Out by 2010 - 21,000 jobs cut

I never liked GM but Im honestly feeling weird and sad about thousands of job cuts.

so sad... was hoping someone would buy pontiac... the brand has got such a strong heritage... it would make a nice entry level brand for the bmw group, for example.

I don't like GM also, but really this news are bad for every car fan!

Nooo :( Sad for everyone.. The end of a legend..

RIP Pontiac. Actually, I dunno about that. They never offically sold cars in the UK, and most of them were re-badged cars from other GM brands. (e.g. Aveo = ... Aveo, GTO = Monaro, G8 = VXR8.)

I can't wait to buy a Pontiac G8 GXP in a couple of years. It will be one of the best bargains in the world when Pontiac is gone.

I honestly don't like the GM group neither his brands (maybe except the Cadillac) but hearing that Pontiac is vanishing in couple of weeks makes me sad. When i was young i liked very much the Firebird, the shape, the sporty image (i'm in Italy, it was an exotic that car here) but .. this situation, makes us all sad, also the SAAB i really hope Sweden will help his carmaker, after all.

just stop trying GM, honestly just stop :/ your embarassing yourself. not only making ugly and disapointing vehicles in the past few quarters but idk... just stop trying lol

I feel Hummer and Saab will get bought by someone from India perhaps. However, Saturn I don't feel anyone wants. Hopefully the Impala will be get the body from the G8 and that would make sense as it is slotted above the Malibu. It would be perfect and they make the Pontiac Soltice/Sky a Chevy Soltice. Maybe that will work.

this is ridiculous. the big selling pontiac is the G8 - built entirely in Australia. GM spent 1 billion dollars in australia designing it (and its new global RWD architecture as used on the new camaro) the stupid thing here is that the G8 was a cash cow - imported under free trade agreements, sold at good profit and nothing but a financial winner for GM. what's happening is that GM are grandstanding - cutting this and that to appease the senate for their next bail-out package. they cancelled the G8 utility (that we have in Australia - and yes it's unbelievably good to drive) and now the G8. so how does GM justify pouring so much money into GM Holden in Oz only to cancel the deal to actually import the cars anyway??

WHY ON WHY, is GM Cutting out one of it's best RWD V8 cars...the Pontiac G8, are they completely MAD. Yes, finish up the "Pontiac" name/badge, but KEEP the G8 and re-badge it as a Chevrolet or Buick...the ONLY reason Sales for the G8 have been slow is because it is called a Pontiac...PLEASE KEEP the Holden Commodore in the USA...it is the second best car to come out of GM for decades, the only other Better GM car is the Corvette. If you dump the G8 you are Mad, the production costs for the US is next to nothing as it is Made In Australia. WHY DON"T YOU ASK THE PEOPLE BEFORE YOU SHUT THE GATE FOR GOOD?

The G8/Commodore is already sold in some middle eastern & Sth American countries as a Chev changing the front facia from Pontiac to Chev would cost almost zero for the US market.And whilst your at it GM reconsider the sportwagon for the US.

This one looks a bit too much like the old Opel astra/vectra...hmm surprise surprise

Another Great One Bites the dust..... RIP!

As CNN put it, ?Just shrinking this company to get it more focused.?(as quoted at http://www.newsy.com/videos/pontiac_bids_fare... ) I agree. I think dropping Pontiac (and Saturn/Hummer/et al.) isn't as much a sign of desperation or politics, but simply good business. Most Pontiacs were becoming uninspired and Hummer was always a weird line.

Latest news in Australia is the G8 could be re-badged and sold under another GM brand...like Chevrolet!