Trans Am
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Pontiac was also to bring over the Ute from Oz a year after GM folded the company. I was so looking forward to it. 
Also I believe Pontiac had no intentions of bringing back the Trans Am. Before the brand was axed they were trying to make their cars look different from Chevy, Cadi, Saturn, etc. The reason why they were axed in my eyes.
Also I believe Pontiac had no intentions of bringing back the Trans Am. Before the brand was axed they were trying to make their cars look different from Chevy, Cadi, Saturn, etc. The reason why they were axed in my eyes.
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I don't think that the Camaro styling works well as a Trans Am, it looks even fatter than before.
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Further more 75% of Pontiac vehicles were based off Chevy's. Grand Am = Malibu, G5 = Cobalt, Sunfire = Caviler, etc. A Pontiac original was the Aztec (wait Buick had a SUV related to it). The Vibe would be if it wasn't a rebadged Toyota Voltz.
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Don't criticize them. Chrysler, Ford, Toyota & others do the exact same thing. For Ford example the Jaguar XK & the Aston Martin DB7 were the same car.GM has been the masters of badge engineering
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In the 90's they actually made the cars look totally different. You couldn't tell that the Grand Am & Malibu were the same vehicle until you looked at the Grand Am's owners manual & saw the Malibu in every picture reference. 
In the naughty's (2000-2009) all they did was change the front grill and/or bumper.
In the naughty's (2000-2009) all they did was change the front grill and/or bumper.
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Point 1: This has already been done by Year One.
Point 2: from about 1973 on, anything you thought was a lone "insert name here" probably wasn't. Corvette, Mustang, Viper, and some of the trucks are the exceptions. Why so far back? Look up Dodge Challenger Gen 2. Before then, and again since the late 2000's, the big thing was 'Platform sharing', a procedure which gave us Camaro/Firebird, Daytona/Superbird, Torino/Maurader, T-Bird/Cougar, etc. Now we have stuff like GM's Epsilon II platform, which is one chassis under three/four/five at-least-somewhat-different cars. Between these two eras, GM, Chrysler, and Ford didn't even try to hide their rip-offs, alot of which came from overseas, like the DodgeGalant Challenger already mentioned.
Point 2: from about 1973 on, anything you thought was a lone "insert name here" probably wasn't. Corvette, Mustang, Viper, and some of the trucks are the exceptions. Why so far back? Look up Dodge Challenger Gen 2. Before then, and again since the late 2000's, the big thing was 'Platform sharing', a procedure which gave us Camaro/Firebird, Daytona/Superbird, Torino/Maurader, T-Bird/Cougar, etc. Now we have stuff like GM's Epsilon II platform, which is one chassis under three/four/five at-least-somewhat-different cars. Between these two eras, GM, Chrysler, and Ford didn't even try to hide their rip-offs, alot of which came from overseas, like the Dodge
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American manufacturers are especially bad avout badge engineering. Take GMC. GM kept GMC and got rid of Pontiac, yet GMC doesn't build one car not sold under another nameplate. Other manufacturers do ot, but GM, Ford, and Chrysler are the worst offenders.
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GMC was more of an industrial service brand back in the day. Now, idk it might be the next GM brand to be axed.
Anyway, a lot of overseas brands are owned by GM, Ford or Chrysler & further more they do badge engineering just as much... Toyota Scion *cough* Toyota also borrowed the Caviler from Chevy.
Anyway, a lot of overseas brands are owned by GM, Ford or Chrysler & further more they do badge engineering just as much... Toyota Scion *cough* Toyota also borrowed the Caviler from Chevy.
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The Vibe was born from a deal with Toyota where Pontiac got the Vibe and Toyota got the Matrix on a co-developed platform, but also got a rebadged Vibe, the Voltz, for Japan. I believe the Aztek predated the Rendezvous by a year, so you could say it's a Pontiac original. That new Trans Am looks awesome though.
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I prefer this 1 of 3 Trans Am I seen at a local car show (it was built here in Indy!)
The thing I hate most about all of these remakes, though, is that they all look like riced out Camaros.
The thing I hate most about all of these remakes, though, is that they all look like riced out Camaros.
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I see what you mean. Am I the only who thinks the wheel choices are kind of silly? No not kind of, very unnecessary.
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No, you're not the only one who thinks that.
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Agreed. I do a lot of offroading but usually trucks (excluding the new models) run things like this:
Mostly as a precaution and because it's visually appealing over stock. Cars also have thicker tread and taller sidewalls. Again excluding newer stuff. They don't last really long and when someone buys a car more likely than not it's either sold or traded in between 2-5 years after the original purchase.
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