To all: Please don’t be offended by my earlier rant about rudeness and internet etiquette. Please be assured that I wasn’t trying to offend anyone. And Brian_E, if you look at your posts, you are probably the most polite person on this thread; I certainly wasn’t trying to implicate you. And by the way, if I myself am guilty of rudeness, please call me on it. I should certainly be held to the same standards as everyone else. Again, I didn’t mean to offend anyone, so if anyone WAS offended, I apologize.
Brian_E, when I read your three conditions that require companies to act, I thought of PontiacRulz and I, because he and I seem to be the most dissatisfied folks on this thread, regarding the current situation of “Pontiaclessness.” And as PontiacRulz and I have said, the evidence of this dissatisfaction is ALL OVER the internet. So, it seems pretty clear that the first condition has been met. Now, not EVERYONE is dissatisfied with the situation; CuriousObserver is obviously OK with it. But again, if you surf the ‘net for pro-Pontiac sites, you’ll see that MANY folks AREN’T. Go ask PontiacRulz, and he’ll tell you about the MASSIVE dissatisfaction engendered by Pontiac’s absence.
The second condition is pretty obvious; MOST of us on this thread would like to see Pontiac return, so THAT’S a condition that we can articulate pretty clearly: A better state of affairs would see the RETURN of Pontiac.
The THIRD condition is the doozy. It seems that we just CAN’T agree on how Pontiac should return. And again, there are some folks on this thread who think that Pontiac not only SHOULDN’T return, but CAN’T return. Just some thoughts off my cuff: Pontiac was around less than three years ago. It HAD been around for many decades. I find it very hard to believe that the market has changed SO MUCH in less than three years, that Pontiac is now forever out of the question. I simply don’t buy that, PARTICULARLY when it had such a large following, and was right behind GMC at #3. To my knowledge, no one on this thread is with GM’s marketing division. I don’t know that anyone can spell-out the calculus of what it would take to bring Pontiac back. I have to suggest that we leave THAT to GM. For OUR part, I think a better role for us is to let GM know that a LOT of folks want Pontiac back; not everyone, and obviously not everyone on this thread. But throughout the US–and in Canada, too–a LOT of folks want Pontiac back. Again, PontiacRulz can tell us about how GM is being bombarded with entreaties to bring the brand back.
