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It's sad Pontiac is gone, but it had to happen.
It may have worked as a "niche brand" like they were planning pre-bankruptcy, but I have doubts at turning any kind of profit ever doing that...
LOVE my Solstice, and will keep it forever...but, like Fen said $$ was lost on every one they sold. I hated my 06 G6 GTP manual-kept it just over a year. So, really what was left and they couldn't continue to spread R&D $, marketing $, etc. thin over too many brands.
Lowdown I can tell you that when I lived in Canada I made a few observations....They loved Pontiacs, still bought those minivans and liked driving them, and like you said are such a small market. I also have never seen so many Mazdas as I did in Toronto. The market for Pontiac was really just US/Canada and no global markets that are much needed to turn a profit.
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