@Grawdaddy: What I meant was that when it comes to reviving a car brand–in fact, when it comes to MANY things–one can “never say never,” as they say. My point wasn’t that a “bronze age desert god”–or even the Christian God–murdered Pontiac. My point was that it would appear to be a little too presumptuous for ANYONE on this thread to say Pontiac “is not coming back.”
No, “putting my hands together and talking to my ceiling” will not “convince the bronze age desert god” to revive Pontiac. I DO think it’s ridiculous of you to say, “consumers care less and less about AFFORDABLE performance cars” (emphasis mine). You’d be surprised by how many people are doing well financially, especially because the Great Recession ENDED over three years ago. The economy may not yet have recovered completely, but it’s much better than it was in ’09. I dare say there will ALWAYS be a market for performance cars, ESPECIALLY, AFFORDABLE performance cars.
The same can be said regarding the price of gas. Not everyone is hurting; people are still buying gas, and not only for economy cars. Finally, the domestic automakers have been recovering faster than most of the rest of the economy.
The sales charts of domestic automakers are, on the whole, looking better than much of the rest of the economy is. And if you’re referring to Pontiac’s sales charts, I’m assuming that EVERY brand’s charts were looking bad at that time. We were in the MIDST of the Great Recession. Mercury died-off just about a year after Pontiac.
