1 – No. The name and associated property rights were retained as GM was the sole owner of the brand from conception to completion. Such marketable property is useful in other areas, but all things attached to the Pontiac name will, historically and inexorably, be linked to GM.
GM’s decision to retain their own intellectual property is not a reliable metric to gague when such intellectural property will brought back into the consumer market.
2 – Never. The world that allowed Pontiac to thrive in the mid-60’s didn’t exist in the 70’s through to the 00’s and never will return.
