The new TA
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From: Mack and Bewick
Re: The new TA
None of those knock my socks off enough to think that GM should consider building them.
I would like to see a Firebird return, but it needs to be distinct from Camaro in more than just skin.
I honestly don't know why they did that again with the Solstice and Sky.
I would like to see a Firebird return, but it needs to be distinct from Camaro in more than just skin.
I honestly don't know why they did that again with the Solstice and Sky.
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From: Annapolis MD
Re: The new TA
Originally Posted by Good Ph.D
I honestly don't know why they did that again with the Solstice and Sky.
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From: The Golden State
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Originally Posted by Archangel
My friend... Firebird ISN'T in the cards.The chance of a Trans Am coming back can calculated in negative numbers.
Don't believe everything you read in magazines...
...especially magazines that cater to a particular brand. News (even made up)= sales.
This horse has been beaten to a liquid pulp on this site.
Do a search.
You're new around here, so I'll spare you.
Originally Posted by LS1Kid717
i would much rather have one that looked like this^ to me its just alot stealthier and the camaro is more of a first gen throwback than a second gen, and i think the photochopped firebird with the 67-68 style front end looks alot cleaner..... but thats just my opinion
Originally Posted by LS1Kid717
well keep in mind that the 67-68 firebird had a similar front end to the 68-69 goats, and the quarter panels on that 'concept' are more shaped to resemble an F-Body than the GM A-body but i guess its any way you look at it because the two cars were both similar
Last edited by guionM; Apr 19, 2006 at 04:49 PM.
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Re: The new TA
Originally Posted by mook99TA
SO GM isn't gonna even produce a firebird?
This comes directly from Pontiac's General Manager (both the former and the current one), & the Product Chairman of General Motors.
Before you start bellyaching about it or "how you would buy one in a second..." or "how GM is turning it's backs on the 'billions and gazillions' of Firebird fans" or "how you'll never buy another Pontiac, or another GM product" or "how you won't even live in the same hemisphere with the people who decided this", or any of the other things that's been posted here everytime the subject comes up, or before you accuse me of not being a Firebird Trans Am fan, like I told Archangel, do a search.
Every reason why GM isn't bringing back the Firebird, and why the Trans Am name is dead on a future GM product has been posted here before... in detail.... many, many times.
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Re: The new TA
Originally Posted by twocamaros
do u mean this blue one?
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From: Kings Bay, Georgia
Re: The new TA
Originally Posted by robb4964
I have read many articles saying the TA will never be built again because Pontiac is going upscale to a BMW quality car. According to the articles even if they build another camaro, TA's will not be built beside it.
If "German Engineering" is so great, why did we kick their collective ***** a few decades ago?! Well.... OK maybe a little over 50 years ago, but who's counting....
I always liked the Firebird, but I hope they let it rest in peace. I would buy a 5 seater GTO with Camaro performance..... hell I'd trade my SS for one in a heartbeat. I can't say that for the new Camaro....
With dedication to product, Pontiac could kill all comers- just not with a TA that would be redundant for the overall GM product line (with the Camaro out there)- Just like it was when it was still on the market.... sorry!
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Re: The new TA
Originally Posted by RMC_SS_LDO
...If "German Engineering" is so great, why did we kick their collective ***** a few decades ago?! Well.... OK maybe a little over 50 years ago, but who's counting....
Comparing something that happened 61 years ago vs today's BMW??
BTW, FWIW, historically, the Russian winter (when Hitler overextended his troops) Stalin's willingness to use his own army as cannon fodder, and Roosevelt armming Britain before we got into the war layed the groundwork for us... "kicking *****"... of Germany. If Britain had fallen before December 1941, or if Hitler honored his treaty with Stalin and didn't invade Russia, history today would have been very different.
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Originally Posted by guionM
You're kidding, right?
Comparing something that happened 61 years ago vs today's BMW??
BTW, FWIW, historically, the Russian winter (when Hitler overextended his troops) Stalin's willingness to use his own army as cannon fodder, and Roosevelt armming Britain before we got into the war layed the groundwork for us... "kicking *****"... of Germany. If Britain had fallen before December 1941, or if Hitler honored his treaty with Stalin and didn't invade Russia, history today would have been very different.
Comparing something that happened 61 years ago vs today's BMW??
BTW, FWIW, historically, the Russian winter (when Hitler overextended his troops) Stalin's willingness to use his own army as cannon fodder, and Roosevelt armming Britain before we got into the war layed the groundwork for us... "kicking *****"... of Germany. If Britain had fallen before December 1941, or if Hitler honored his treaty with Stalin and didn't invade Russia, history today would have been very different.
