Retro Review: Plymouth GTX, 1967-1974
People who argue that it wasn't GM - well, Pontiac - that created the first muscle car (the 1964 GTO) arguably have history on their side. Because there were muscular cars...
Retro Review: AMC Marlin Fastback Coupe, 1965–1967
Pontiac's GTO, which appeared in 1964, had every other American automaker rushing to cash in on the emerging youth market for big-biceped intermediate muscle coupes— including AMC.
AMC, however, decided on a...
Doomed: Lincoln Continental (2017-2020)
The ‘80s rocker Eddie Money had a hit song titled I Wanna Go Back - which could serve as the funeral dirge for Lincoln’s unsuccessful attempt to bring back the Continental...
Muscle Memory
It was forty years ago that America turned 200 - and Pontiac, 50.
1976 was a special year for both.
And for the Trans-Am, which by 1976 had become Pontiac's signature muscle car.
The...
The TA Corona’d!
I took the Great Pumpkin out the other day, to try and pump some much needed carbon dioxide into the very cold air. Some greenhouse gasses are badly needed - to...
Old School Fast
Fast is not just about the numbers. Does it feel fast to be traveling 500 miles per hour in an Airbus? It feels much faster in the open cockpit of a...
Retro-review: 1966-74 Dodge Charger
Pontiac's Tempest-based GTO had been on the market for two years when Dodge finally fired back in mid-1966 with an intermediate-sized, big-engined intimidator of its own - the Charger.
Though it wasn't...
Cars That Broke Bad (Or just Broke)
Automotive good ideas gone bad range far and wide - whether it's a classic fail like the exploding Pintos of the early '70s - or a late-model train wreck like the Pontiac Aztek.
Here...
Slow drivers… is it getting worse?
At least back in '66, the bluehair (or whomever) up ahead would have pulled off onto the shoulder to let you by.
Doomed: Pontiac G8 (2008-2009)
There are many examples of too little, too late in the automotive world. The 2008-2009 Pontiac G8 is perhaps the only example of more-than-enough . . . when it no-longer-mattered.
Pontiac was...