First Generation Firebird-L Mailing List ......................................................................... Well said Bob! I'm sure all of us yearn to submit ideas for bringing the "excitement" back! I shudder to think what this group could come up with if tasked with product development for Pontiac! Cars all enthusiasts would want to own!
Too many companies now are run by a primarily numbers focus vs. starting with the consumer desires and building a product to satisfy them. What happened to US innovation and inventiveness? Strangled by bureaucracy............and cost focus versus value focus. Steve -------------------------------------------------- From: "Bob Cisneros" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:29 PM To: "First Generation Firebird-L" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FGF] Pontiac to be scrapped - Express your opinions First Generation Firebird-L Mailing List ......................................................................... Right, I don't think that conservative or liberal values had much to do with GM or Pontiac's decline. You are much closer to what I feel is the actual cause. By the end of the 1960's GM was being run by people who were less interested in building great cars and were more motivated by the bottom line. And the Delorean story passed on by Jim Weil seems to back this up. The bottom line for me is that I'm quite sad to see Pontiac come to an end as a division of GM. In the 1950s and '60s, the division built what are considered legendary cars. And quite a few models built in the '70s until the present were either excellent, or at least very good cars. An indication that many of Pontiac's engineers and product managers were trying to produce the kind of cars enthusiasts wanted. Even in the mid to late 1970's when everyone else gave up on muscle cars, Pontiac had the audacity to keep the Trans Am alive. And the sales figures proved them right in doing so. But internally, the battle to bring these cars to the market was intense. And I always hoped that they would continue to be profitable and become the "Excitement" division again. But it just didn't happen. So I'll miss Pontiac. When the division is gone, the legend will not be forgotten. There was once a car company called Pontiac. Hard working men and women built some great cars. And we get to enjoy them. Long live the great Pontiacs of the past. Long live our Firebirds. -Bob Cisneros http://firstgenfirebird.org/show/closeup.mv?CarID=231 San Jose, CA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions to Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Unsubscribe from Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Help: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/firebird/Firebird-L.html> Classifieds: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/ubb/> Owner Pictures: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/show/>
