http://www.leftlanenews.com/2007/01/...be-a-firebird/

I JUST FOUND THIS ON LEFTLANENEWS.COM

 

It's been no secret...but nice find - at least those that still don't believe all that has been said might believe this time...

 

We know already.

 

i just want someone to make a firebird front end that i can toss on, ill make my own pontiac damnit

 

I'm sure the aftermarket will respond with something to make a Firebird clone. Look at the third-gen for instance and the companies that manufactured the Knight Rider kits.

 

got to love the 3rd gens they are top dogs in my book

 

Taken from the messages below that story

 

No. You'll still just have a Camaro. Just worth less.

 

True, so just keep the old front end sitting handy in the garage, problem solved.

 

Good point.

 

Ill just remove the camaro emblems....put on firebird emblems, and ditch the enormous chevy logos in lew of some nice pontiac arrowheads....

 

In an interview of Edmunds, Jim R. Hopson, Communications Manager for Pontiac, said, "we're looking at developing a vehicle on the architecture that's under the Camaro, it just won't be called a Firebird."

...riiight...let's have Pontiac build a rear wheel drive V8 based of the Camaro...but not call it a Firebird. Are they serious?!

If they want to make a rear wheel drive V8, fine...call it a GTO, or come up with a new name. But once you start basing it off the Camaro...not calling it a Firebird would be a bad move IMO, because that's what people would think anyway from the previous generations of the F-Body platform. The fanbase is already there, just capitalize on it and expand it.

Meh, whatever...I guess that's why I don't get paid the big bucks and they do. Sign me up for one of those Trans Am body kits thats sure to come out in 2010...

 

"Developing a vehicle on the architecture that's under Camaro", doesn't have to mean a pony car. It might even be a sedan.

 

Or it may still be a 2-door, but larger than the Camaro, with 5 seats instead of 4, and it would fit the bill perfectly for a GTO .

While I was sad to see the F-bodies go in 2002, and I too, wish they would bring the Firebird back along side the new Camaro, my guess is that if you play the numbers game (stats), there's probably a pretty weak (business) case for the Firebird .

At this point, GM is better off building and marketing ONE car 100% RIGHT, than trying to divide their efforts. That's the way I see it anyways? Depending how the market and the industry as a whole goes, maybe there will be a better case for it later on down the road .

 

True..it could be a sedan, 4 doors, 2 doors, GTO, Banshee whatever. I will just be very dissapointed if they do a Cobalt/G5 thing again and the car isn't called a Firebird.