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Old 05-21-2024, 11:52 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Evergreen6 View Post
The US government hasn't been a shareholder of GM since 2013.

GM would bring back Pontiac if they thought it could be a viable brand. By 2008 GM was nearly bankrupt, and Pontiac wasn't doing well.
The thing is Buick sold a lot of cars in China and they had all sorts of new product in the pipeline read to go.

Pontiac on the other hand had very little new product in the final stages of development.

Awesome Bob(Lutz) fought like crazy for the brand but he was fighting a losing battle in the boardroom and with the government

He decided to step down and retire
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