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2008-2009 Pontiac G8 recalled over airbag concern

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Filed under: Sedan , Recalls , Safety , Pontiac General Motors is recalling around 38,000 Pontiac G8 sedans from its 2008 and 2009 model years. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that the cars may have a passenger-side airbag flaw that might prevent proper deployment in certain scenarios. According to NHTSA , the airbag might not adequately protect a fifth percentile woman – that is, a woman around four-foot, 11-inches weighing 108 pounds. The New York Times indicates that the anomaly was found during a crash test conducted by GM’s Australian branch, Holden , which was testing the G8′s twin (read: Commodore) for head injuries.

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Study: Pontiac drivers mainly sticking with GM

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Filed under: Car Buying , GM , Pontiac 2009 Pontiac G8 GXP – Click above for high-res image gallery Of the 57,641 Pontiac owners who bought a new car in 2010, 53.3 percent of them stuck with a product from General Motors , according to a survey by RL Polk & Co. The hard numbers: 33.5 percent of Pontiac customers chose a Chevrolet , 11.7 chose a GMC , 6.7 went with Buick and the last 1.5 percent bought a Cadillac . Within the rest of the Big Three, Ford had the best outing, grabbing 10.5 percent of former Pontiac owners. Dodge caught 3.2 percent and Chrysler and Jeep together totaled 1.7 percent of the share.

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Finally Official: Pontiac is dead

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Filed under: Car Buying , Etc. , Pontiac 2009 Pontiac Solstice Coupe GXP – Click above for high-res image gallery Pontiac has been dead for some time now, at least from a manufacturing point of view. The Vibe was the last vehicle to roll of a Pontiac assembly line, marking the end of new car production for the brand in August of 2009. However, the former automaker has been stuttering and mumbling to itself while lying in its death bed

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Report: Holden tallies $210M loss, blames Pontiac

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Filed under: Budget , Sedan , Plants/Manufacturing , Holden , Australia 2009 Pontiac G8 GXP – Click above for a high-res image gallery When General Motors first announced it was sending Pontiac packing, our first thought was a pang for the loss of the most excellent G8 GXP , followed quickly by concern for Holden , the automaker’s Australian subsidiary. After all, the General’s Australian arm had done well by providing America with left-hand-drive versions of the Commodore to sail under the Poncho flag. Turns out Holden is now feeling the loss of that deal in a big way. According to a report in The Age , the company just announced a loss of $192 million USD

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Charting the Five-Ohs: Next-gen Cop Car Comparo

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Filed under: Sedan , Chevrolet , Chrysler , Dodge , Ford , GM , Police/Emergency It used to be that every full-line American automaker offered a version of its mainstream full-size sedan to make it appropriate for police duty. By the time 1996 rolled around, the Chevrolet Caprice, which was the last would-be competitor to the standard-setting Ford Crown Victoria, was discontinued, leaving the lucrative police market to the Blue Oval Boys. The automotive industry took notice, and plans began in corporate board rooms to remedy that situation, and even a few new entrants – most notably Carbon Motors – sprung up with promising designs that eschewed the mainstream production-based sedan design. In 2005, Dodge rolled out a factory police package for its full-size Charger sedan, and for the first time in a decade the Crown Victoria faced some stiff V8-powered, rear-wheel-drive competition.

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GM tests Pontiac Vibe brakes against unintended acceleration in wake of Matrix recall

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Filed under: Government/Legal , Recalls , Safety , Hatchback , GM , Pontiac , Toyota 2010 Pontiac Vibe – Click above for high-res image gallery Determined to allay any concerns that the Pontiac Vibe – a clone of the recalled Toyota Matrix – has safety issues with its brakes, General Motors conducted its own vehicle tests over the weekend at its Milford Proving Grounds. “We ran the Vibe wide open at 60 miles an hour and the brakes were able to bring the vehicle to a safe stop within 169 meters, consistent with our internal requirement for brake performance,” said Martin Hogan, GM director of brake systems. While the tests may have successfully exonerated the Vibe’s braking capability in a controlled unintended acceleration scenario, they did shed some light on the increased distances required to bring run-away vehicles to a stop. According to a recent Edmunds road test of the 2009 Pontiac Vibe GT, their test vehicle panic-stopped from 60 mph in just 127 feet.

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