Pontiac Sunbird

Los Angeles TimesUnfortunately, my first new car — a 1979 Pontiac Sunbird — was an unfitting $5300 esteem to the old warrior. It was a lemon, a cut-rate and an ill-aimed stab at beating the Japanese event in the growing market for smaller cars spawned by rising Individual picks: Pontiacs, modern and classic Will Pontiac's Future Flop start Produce Any Gain For the Past Send us your Pontiac tales

New York TimesA Spark of life Selling Pontiacs, and Feeling Sold Out(“Grassy Sunbird.”) As Detroit and Washington work to save the car manufacture from going over a cliff like some roadster in a black-and-chalky melodrama, entire families have been upended — families that extensive ago linked their surname to the name of Pontiac

Select News 9End of the road for Pontiac as local dealerships take stockRaucci, whose first car was a red Pontiac Sunbird, said it's too ancient to know if it's the right move or not, but he is concerned so much negative hearsay has scared consumers from buying even when there are strong incentives. While Pontiac makes up about

The Agent of Pontiac's Demise for $5000!The lineage of the GM H-body cars began with the justifiably maligned Chevrolet Vega which begat the Monza, which begat the Pontiac Astre, which begat the Pontiac Sunbird. Several solidity styles were offered on the 97.5 inch wheelbase, including the

Pontiac Unleashes The '84 2000 Sunbird Turbo: Oh Yeah!Pontiac's bosses had captivated the radical step of dropping the "J" from the J2000 name for 1983, and a year later they figured the Sunbird name might as well get slapped onto the end. After all, memories of the Vega/Monza-based H-heart Sunbird were still