Can a Trans Am save Pontiac? A REAL prototype!

[KEN]

No photoshop here. Just got my new issue of High Performance Pontiac! This car is actually being built by ASC on a 2010 Camaro as a proposal to save Pontiac!

source = http://www.autoextremist.com/current/2009/3/3/the-autoextremist.html

[criss cross]

sweet ride

[Ayce]

Looks like they grafted the front from the 60's, and the back from the 70's.
I like it. :D

[Allegedman]

If the GTO remake was this.

it would've pumped up pontiac years ago

I definitely like this pontiac. hope burt reynolds is good enough to make smokey and the bandit four.

[criss cross]

yea i am glad there getting away from the holldo
n crap maybe they have a shot now.

[Nismo240]

If that is what the actual Firebird looks like then I say....................ABSO****INGLUTELY!

I thought the Mustang looked ok and the new Camaro is sexy but that Trans Am...........it's just too hot!

[Kevman]

It makes me feel sick.. I just want it off my screen..

[Dolfan1]

I think it looks better than the new Camaro.

That being said, Im not sure that Pontiac should be saved though. In fact, I think US automakers ought to get rid of alot of the manufactuers who for the most part just produce rehashed, rebadged versions of other vehicles produced under the same parent company. All it does is drive up the cost to produce each vehicle. Not to mention the strain it puts on one division to keep another division afloat. Being a Mopar guy, I hated to see Plymouth die, but it was a smart move. No one needed 3 versions of the Stratus

[Tate]

I don't hate it..... but it doesn't exactly grab me either
It just doesn't look mean enough to me.
I don't think that blue paint is helping either

[DevilMan]

I think Pontiac is doomed if they are hoping that car will save them.

AND WHERE IS THE FIRE CHICKEN?? How could you design a car without the fire chicken on the hood?

[KEN]

You guys have to keep in mind this is just a proposal, its not what the car will look like. It is definitely missing the mean look the Trans Am's are known for, and the company building it knows this. It is a step in the right direction to getting whats left of Pontiac to open their eyes.

[wade454]

I think Pontiac is doomed if they are hoping that car will save them.

AND WHERE IS THE FIRE CHICKEN?? How could you design a car without the fire chicken on the hood?


I'm with Devilman on this one. it may open pontiac eyes but, the problem is I think GM has shut their's tight.

[roadweasel]

Good luck to them if they decide to produce it. They need to put the bird on the hood for sure.

[Mopar4life]

I like this front end better

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd149/moparrebel/attachment.jpg

[Tate]

I like this front end better

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd149/moparrebel/attachment.jpg

Same here......

[willyrich]

I like this front end better

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd149/moparrebel/attachment.jpg

with this view in the back also.....
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/3710/1970whitepontiactransam.jpg
Shot at 2009-04-15

ill buy 2!

[Kevman]

Agreed, that front end is much better..

[Mopar4life]

or they could just go with this design

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd149/moparrebel/69ta3.jpg
:D

[Ayce]

Could be a moot point anyway, if the General dumps Pontiac,along with Saturn and Saab. :trytofly:

[cargasm]

I like this front end better

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd149/moparrebel/attachment.jpg

IF they make a new firebird i hope thats what they go with.. the other one looks like a plastic tonka toy:confused:

[Kurrupt_Midtown]

Ok I'm starting to notice that alot of manufactures are trying to bring back the hay-day to say of the muscle car industry. I know i was not alive anywhere near the whole muscle car movement. As I was born in 1979. But since i first saw my grandfather's 69 Mustang when i was 6; I've been hooked ever since. At one time I actually owned a 1972 Camaro with a 427 BBC that I was restoring til my stepfather decided to sell it while i was at a football camp 1200 miles away.

But to me you just cant bring back something that was great and put a new "twist" on it. Just does not seem right to me at all. If you didnt notice the other generation Camaros never looked like the last one i dont think. Now this prototype Firebird trying to look like something its not ever going to be. Or the new mustang body styles trying to look like some sort of GT350/500 that went totally wrong. Now the new Maro.

I guess what im trying to state is come up with something new and never done/seen before. Dont bring something back that has many i guess stolen styles from a car's period of time or what ever. There will never be another 69 Camaro SS, or 73 Firebird, or even an "Eleanor". Car manufacturers just need to think it over i guess if you ask me. I love sports/performance/muscle just as much as the next guy/woman. But the Muscle Car/Truck Era is over with cept in the hearts of people as you and me.

So Please Stop Trying To Bring Back the "Good ole days" because you just cant do it like they did it back then.

/endrantaboutthesenewcars

Edit: Wow after reading over my post. This is some heart felt stuff i typed in here. I'm usually not a very serious person over the net. But this right here has some feeling in it.

[DreadZer0]

Here's an idea i think that would work: Why not keep making the classics? Throw all the Cobalts and Aveos in the bin, and keep making the classics, but with modern technology. A '57 Bel Air using Camaro underbody parts would sell... But i can't see that working.

Also, if that second pic is what a new firebird would look like, what would a new Bel-Air look like?

[roadweasel]

Where's GP when we need him - he's so good at car art he could draw something up that would blow you away. GP if you're out there buddy, check in! Guess it's a trip to the bus to find him.