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 ...

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 ...

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 ...