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Date Posted: 22:12:15 06/02/09 Tue
Author: -S.
Subject: "GM's Junk Heap: The Pontiac Aztek"
In reply to: -S. 's message, "Yes, can you believe that?" on 22:02:49 06/02/09 Tue

Here you go- your favorite. The Pontiac Aztek.

Interesting series in today's CNN Money, "GM's Junk Heap", (which includes the Hummer too.)

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/autos/0905/gallery.gm_problem_cars/5.html

I had no idea how badly the Aztek sold. Only 115k over the entire 5 year run. That's a bonafide disaster.

(I love it that the main character in my favorite new show, "Breaking Bad", drives one of these. It cracked me up when I saw that.)



"On certain rare occasions a car company can produce a model that many people find unattractive and yet, somehow, it ends up finding a large market.

For some reason, it just didn't work for the Aztek. Introduced in 2001, it's still regarded as simply a hideous odd-ball. Those who own them do love them for their undeniable utility but most car shoppers avoided the Aztek. Over its five-year production run, just 115,000 were sold.

After this, Pontiac returned to a safer design scheme that made the cars largely indistinguishable from one another but for the size. A pavement scorching Pontiac GTO looked very much like a tame Pontiac G6. Lack of any real brand identity, aside from vague aspirations to "performance", choked off the brand's value. GM announced recently it was killing off the Pontiac brand."

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  • I thought these were amusing in their own right, not necessarily as a stab at the situation. (NT) -- OffroadX, 14:50:52 06/03/09 Wed
  • Those are a riot! :-) (NT) -- -s., 20:46:23 06/03/09 Wed
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