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Sorry -- here come my opinions...
I am very sad... I LOVE Pontiacs. I think the '69 Grand Prix was a landmark muscle/luxury car, and they have had so many other desirable performance cars before and after, leading up to what I assume was a great sports car -- the Solstice.
But when you sell a glorified Citation/Phoenix as a Pontiac (I'm referring now to ninety percent of the fwd cars they have sold since), and that Sunbird/Grand Am/G6 etc. is a fragile piece of crap, then what can you expect? And what was WITH those Pontiac dealers having the gall to GOUGE prospective buyers of Solstices, while they were virtually helping themselves go out of business...!!!?????
EVERY person I have worked with or been friends with who bought a Pontiac or Buick in the past eighteen years (about five people -- all the rest are buying foreign cars...) had a major engine component failure in the first 10,000 miles --- bad camshafts and bad oil pumps mostly, as I remember it. That's not a great record, especially if you've ever experienced a Toyota....
...and yet I still --- more than ever --- want to pick up a well-kept rare 4th-gen Firebird Formula convertible, even though I KNOW they are junky.... bad distributors, water-pumps, cooling systems, transmissions, suspensions, etc.
That's us Americans --- romantic to the end...!
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