A 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP under a recall warning against parking underneath any structure is being blamed as the source of a $3 million apartment building fire in Plymouth, Minnesota. How exciting!
What's it gonna be for your breakaway? A Firebird? A Grand Prix? Or even a Geeee Teeeee Ohhhhhhh? With a theme song performed by musicians that rock almost as hard as the Fifth Dimension, the '69 Pontiacs were clearly aimed at those who were,...
What? You've got a problem with our leading with a GM win in the latest JD Power quality survey? After all, the Japanese and Koreans (and a couple of Germans) absolutely wiped the floor with American carmakers. But this is a man-bites-octopus...
On today's Jalopnik Precast, Spinelli and Farago examine GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz's reaction to the Holden VE Commodore SS-V. Will Australia's $1 billion muscle car show up in Pontiac dealerships as a new Grand Prix? Then, Farago — never a...
We're kind of excited about Pontiac's new LS4 motor, if somewhat underthrilled with the package in which it'll be packed. We've always thought the latest Grand Prix body style is kind of gawky, but considering the GXP will be getting with...
Whoops! Looks like we were a bit late with those spy shots of the GXP. The company introduced the grander version of the Grand Prix, sporting a new V8 engine, at the California International Auto Show in Anaheim last night. The stats are also...
We've been hearing for months about the new rear-drive GM cars on the horizon. You know the ones: the Australian-built, Zeta-such platform models set to give the US car-buying public a B12 shot, beginning with the 2009 Camaro. But aside from the...
What does it say about a car brand when even "Jeopardy!" contestants can't place it? It says it's a non-entity (whoops, that should probably have been more jokey and metaphorical). As The Detroit News reports, contestants on a recent airing of the...
Always wanted an "Aero Wars" muscle car from the early '70s like the Plymouth Roadrunner Superbird, or the Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II, but have never been able to afford one? Well, if you desire an attainable NASCAR homologation special, how about...
As Australian press reports, Pontiac will import 50,000 Holden Commodore SS models to the US, to be rebadged as the new Pontiac G8 — a rear-drive muscle sedan not under the leadership of Val ry Giscard dEstaing (and likely lacking...
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