The 1976 Pontiac Trans Am arrived at a moment when muscle cars were supposed to be finished, choked by emissions rules and rising insurance costs. Instead of fading quietly, it proved that ...

Pontiac’s death was not sudden—it was a slow, painful fade into corporate oblivion. When General Motors finally shut the lights off in 2010, the industry didn’t just lose another brand—it lost its ...

In 1926, Pontiac appeared as a junior brand of the long-since-discontinued Oakland division of General Motors. By 1929, Pontiac was outselling its parent company so much that the corporation ...