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Originally Posted by OrangeFury
I was sad to see Pontiac go (my last 3 cars were 2 Grand Ams and a Grand Prix). If you look at sales, it is easy say they should have axed it. But it satisfied a very important part of the market...younger people who wanted a sporty car at a reasonable price. Now GM really has nothing to offer this segment...Caddy is too expensive, Buick is for old people so your choice is to move to Chevy and unless you can afford the increase in price to have a Camaro there's not much else of interest there (sorry, people in their early 20s are not going to be drawn to the Cobalt or the upcoming Cruze). Unfortunately, most of this segment will end up moving over to one of the foreign makers IMO.
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But they weren't any sportier than their Chevy cousins. A Malibu with the 3.6 is just as fast as a G6 GXP, or a Saturn Aura with the same engine. And they were all about the same price too.