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Spot a car like a Ferrari 458 parked outside Harrods and it looks tacky. Spot one in the pits for Grand-Am practice and it looks purposefully menacing. The race numbers, slicks and gargantuan brakes definitely help there too. More »
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Not everyone's keen on the changes coming to Grand-Am, but if it results in the 2012 Corvette Daytona Prototype we're ok with it. Why? Because it's a prototype that doesn't look like it was just punched in the nards. More »
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Sigh. Another day, another Corvette. Yesterday it was the 2014 Corvette C7. Today it's the 2012 Chevrolet Corvette Daytona Prototype that'll race in the Grand-Am Road Racing Series next season. Although that one won't get a split-window, today's does. More »
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Aiming to raise $1 million for families affected by pediatric cancer, Brian Johnson will be racing at the upcoming Rolex 24 at Daytona. Fans can send in donations by text all through the race in the frontman's "Highway to Help" campaign. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5857561&view=rss&microfeed=true It's official, DTM-style touring car racing's coming to the United States in 2012 via NASCAR/GRAND-AM. More »
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Our story of the world's worst Batmobile has taken a sad turn as the poorly Gothamized 1994 Pontiac Grand Am was reportedly pilfered. If you see it, turn on the bat signal (and call the state police). [Daily Telegram] More »
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This Pontiac Grand Am Craigslist ad proclaims: Some people would say "Sir, you have torn half the interior out of your car," to which i would respond, "you sir are a drunk AND your wife is a common harlot." Updated. More »
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Turn your back on this Pontiac Grand Am and you're likely to get an overly elaborate spin kick to the head. [JuliaSegal] More »
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A blasted-looking J.C. France, grandson of NASCAR founder Bill France and Grand-Am racer, was arrested in Daytona Beach with his "housemate" for an illegal trifecta: drug possession, street racing and DUI. Yup, Cocaine is a hell of a drug. More »
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How could The General bring himself to axe Pontiac, with a history like this? We'll admit the N-body Grand Am wasn't Pontiac's finest hour, but it was orders of magnitude better than the execrable Phoenix! More »
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Oldsmobile, Plymouth, and now Pontiac; this century is rough on the old Detroit marques. With the the demise of Pontiac in mind, let's check out the classic Pontiacs I've photographed down on the Alameda street. More »
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Yesterday, lamenting its death, we extolled the virtues of Pontiac's ten best vehicles. Today we face reality — Pontiac's been building terrible cars for years. These seven stinkers drove the nails into the coffin. More »
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Bald, law-breaking road rally drivers will be better represented in Grand Am Sports Car racing this year, Alex Roy, holder of the NY-to-LA driving record, is entering the series. More »
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For the first time ever, Detroit iron dominated a 24 Hours Of LeMons event, with American-built machinery taking four of the top five positions (if you consider a California-built Corolla to be American-built, that is). More »
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If you found yourself accidentally watching this past weekend's Grand Am race at Laguna Seca, you may have actually witnessed some entertaining stuff. Now, while it certainly was fun to see just about every car drive straight through the dirt and completely ignore the corkscrew, the hottest action of the race was this series of unfortunate events which happened to Matt Plumb's Rum Bum-sponsored Daytona Prototype. We knew that burying a fire with dirt will extinguish it, but who knew that burying a car with dirt will cause it to ignite? [SPEED] More »
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So The General makes this seriously 80s-looking ad for the '88 Grand Am, so much of its time that a fine sheen of chlamydia-scented cocaine crystals will form on your TV screen just watching it. But wait! The General notes that nobody is actually buying Grand Ams, so he orders his admeisters to splice in some stuff about desperate-smelling discounts in between the shots of the undernourished-looking Grand Am-lovin' 80s babe. Hmm... you don't see many of these cars around any more... More »
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Even though the DOTS '73 Grand Am doesn't have the cool hood scoops of the car in this ad, it does have the soft Endura bumper. We kinda prefer the demonstration involving scientists beating on the car's snout with a crowbar. Anyway, did you know the '73 Grand Am handled like a "true road car?" Porsche drivers, look out! More »
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Nissan and Nissan Motorsports (NISMO) will not be sponsoring or officially participating in any motorsports activities in North American on the verge of bringing over the GT-R, the most ferocious sports car from Nissan ever for North America. Earlier in the day we reported on a rumor that Nissan was getting out of American motorsports and we now have confirmation from Nissan. According to Scott Vazin, Director of Product Communications for Nissan Motor Company, though they're getting out for [Fiscal Year] 2008, "we'll keep a presence around the world." More »
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UPDATE:We have conformation of this rumor, read the whole post on Nissan Racing with quotes from Nissan Motors. We've heard from a little birdie that a new accountant at Nissan has determined that NISMO North America/Nissan Racing North America is too expensive and must end. That means no more Nissan-backed CORR, Grand-Am or Drifting teams. The announcement was apparently made internally a week ago so that teams can find new manufacturers. All before the Nissan GTR hits our shores. Awesome! The rumor is unconfirmed, but also un-denied, so take that for what it's worth. More »
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1973: The Malaise Era was just kicking off, with the Arab oil embargo and Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre letting everyone know that pessimism would be the order of the day for quite a while. The Vietnam War was clearly not going to result in another hide for Uncle Sam to nail onto the barn, and- perhaps worst of all- engine compression ratios were getting smaller and car bumpers were getting bigger. Into this quagmire slogged the '73 Pontiac Grand Am Colonnade, with wild styling that showed the how the Pontiac Division wasn't going to let those freaks over at Buick outdo them with the boat-tail Riviera. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=321230&view=rss&microfeed=true This ad may just win the Most Eighties Car Ad Award for the week, if only for the porn-Moog music and the woman's breathy voice repeating the words "Grand Am" over and over while a miserably underpowered, indifferent-build-quality front-driver limps across the screen. Hey, but at least the Grand Am was better than the Phoenix, the car it replaced. The glass was half full! – Murilee Martin More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=275008&view=rss&microfeed=true Earlier this year, Rolex Sports Car Series driver Joey Hand turned his BMW into a bouncing Betty at Mid-Ohio. Thanks to YouTube, we can all count the endos. One, two, three, four, five, six ... [Thanks to Curtis and David for the tips.] More »
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