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  • This song is bitchin

  • who sung the song got good music in it too.

  • Yeah and if GM wants too survive in this country, they had better stop wussifing and degrading thier cars just to make the treehuggers and EPA happy. i mean crazy high MPG and CAFE its so stupid it dosent make sense.

  • Looks like at the end there,s a confederate flag .

  • Oh man, there was a time GM was so cool. Those days are long gone.

  • :24 it looks like the back of a 4th gen

  • TPI:] Great american trans am

  • Gone but not forgotten. One of the best GM brands ever. RIP Pontiac.

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  • too bad there gone now.. :'(

  • Proud owner of a 1988 Trans Am GTA 350.

  • GM should go to h*ll for killing pontiac!!

  • I bought one of the last great Pontiacs. A 2009 G8 GT. I love this car. I bought it the day after they filed chapter 11. Right out off the show room floor.

  • @InfernoZ24 Nice car. Hope you got a good deal on it at that point.

    It sickens me to see a 5th Gen camaro on the streets. Bastards. Even though it is ugly as hell and can't hold a candle (aesthetically) to my 2002 WS6 T/A.

  • One of the best automotive ad campaigns ever!

    It's too bad that GM doesn't make ads like this anymore. Instead, now we get to have Tim Allen put us to sleep.

    I sure miss Pontiac.

  • Burn in hell Fritz Henderson. BURN IN HELL YOU S.O.B Hate Gm junk

  • I hate that GM discontinued Pontiac.

  • The Trans Am was like the Camaro's crazy party animal brother.

  • Pontiac... now the leading maker of plant pots.

  • Pontiac should have been re-tooled for the Scion / Honda Civic / Kia Soul market, with the flagship being a Trans Am based off the new Camaro. Instead, it got cut and that money went to selling carbon copies of Chevrolet's truck line as GMCs.

    Dammit.

  • pontiac had cool commercials. sure they are cheesy now. kinda what makes them even cooler now lol.

  • GM doesn't want to make Pontiacs anymore? Fine. I just won't buy GM products anymore. In fact, I wouldn't spend money on ANY American car these days, they're all garbage. The 97-03 Grand Prix was the last good American car.

  • @500voyages I am right there with you. Pontiac had the only GM cars that appealed to me. The only GM vehicle left that I would be remotely interested in now is the Camaro however with my anger at them closing Pontiac (and Saturn for that matter) just to keep the dead to the US Buick division around simply because the Chinese liked it, it is highly doubtful that I would even buy one of those.

  • Nice flag at the end...lol

  • @wildbloodydragon

    dig that flag

  • the '80s were so great

  • The chick arguing with the traffic cop is awesommmme.

  • @Zades014

    you know she won the argument

  • The only thing worth owning in that commercial was the Firebird. Everything else was mediocore to subpar. You can blame bob the shit lutz and roger smith shit.

  • real cars dont have back seats. gotta love fieros.

  • Fuck Yes!

    Can't wait for my trans am and all the sex goin on the back seat :D

    LOL

  • @jslewalite Yes mate you will enjoy it, I did :)

  • bought my 88 Trans am GTA from her original owner with 46k on the clock..took me 20 years to find her but thats the effect this commercial had on me. Its everything I dreamed it would be..makes me feel like Im 16 again.

  • ahhhh when Pontiac was really good in the 80's...now their designs and concepts look all boxy. Especially those Aztex...ewww. I cant stand those Pontiac Aztex's they're so ugly looking

  • Black Gta trans Am with digtal dash! :D

  • cars nowadays pale in comparison to these classic cars.

  • I am buying a 1988 GP!! Pontiac YEAH! my first car!

  • Unless the Chinese suddenly stop buying Buicks by the millions, Pontiac will never return. Keep those Pontiacs alive!

  • I belive GM will bring back Pontiac! Just like they did with the Impala!

  • My 1989 L98/WS6 looks exactly like the black TA in this ad. Only has 43k on it and is all original. Great car!

  • dead brand

  • My next car was going to be a Pontiac, maybe a G6 or even a G8, but then GM pulled the plug! I don't even know why they kept Buick when Cadillac would be just as good as a luxury division.

    I'm going to miss the Pontiac brand. :(

  • Awsome!!!! I need to go take my '88 Fiero GT for a spin now!

  • First Oldsmobile now Pontiac and Saturn. What GM you want the Japanese to take over our automotive industry. BRING THEM BACK!!!

  • Although a hokey company, Pontiac, they did build excitement. They were making cars then that were futuristic, forward thinking. Not the best in handling and so on, but I love that laser-style in these cars.

  • @wendileona excuse me,I beg to differ,all this "hokey" company known as Pontiac did was take a lowly plain jane Tempest and create the first muscle car in 1964, a little piece of history called the G.T.O.

  • good old car commercial, just showing the line, a song made for the line. Now when you see a new car commercial, it just come in now for great rates. No passion in them like this one

  • This commercial is the next best thing to a time machine.

  • i remember hearing tht "ride pontiac ride" on the TV in the mid 90's when i was a kid.

  • He had to jump into the car because the door handle fell off.

  • @battyguy No sorry; you missed the point. He jumped in for style.

  • get on your pontiac and ride pontiac ride drive pontiac drive we build excitement F I E R O

  • I remember that commercial. I can't beleive that was over 20 years ago.

  • I have owned 7 Pontiacs since I was 15..My favorite brand ever...goodbye old girl

  • now THAT'S excitement!!!! WE'LL MISS YOU PONTIAC!

  • well spoken

  • were goin to miss Pontiac.. of course people have to buy some random ass mazdas and toyotas...take that shit back overseas...

  • @NWO41508 best models ever :(

    most beutifull cars i have ever seen

  • @NWO41508 lol. you mad? I'm not missing pontiac

  • @NWO41508 it was my first car and i loved every drive with it, was soild as a rock

  • @NWO41508 Hear hear on those f**kin Toyotas. I think anybody that drives a Prius shouldn't be allowed to run for President.

  • Did Pontiac even have a tagline after "We Build Excitement"?

  • @TheZachalope It was "Fuel for the Soul"

  • This is the Pontiac I grew up loving. Pontiac was actually the third best-selling brand in 1988...GM killed it through lack of attention and refinement in the 90s and 00s.

  • Now THAT is a good car commercial :D

  • Did anybody ever hear of the Pontiac Tojan? it supposedly a rare version of the firebird built by Knudson.

  • yeah it's the Pontiac counterpart to the Chevrolet Carralo, the Camaro conversion done by the same company

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  • This century is a disaster! The 2000's were the demise of Pontiac. RIP.

  • MAN, pontiac used to be the shit! I used to have a Pontiac Firebird Formula 305 throttlebody injection it was all stock except I put flowmasters on it. It was a p.o.s. though lol. Had high miles and the tranny was bad and I was broke so couldn't fix it up lol. I hope Pontiac brings back the Firebird/TransAm like Chevy brought back the Camaro!!!

  • oh yea, my Firebird Formula was a 1989. Stupid youtube with no edit function lol.

  • nope trans ams aint coming back, and pontiac is set to go the way that oldsmobile did, just a memory

  • I havn't seen a GM commercial or many from other mfg's on TV in a while.

  • You haven't seen much because they are all broke

  • Great song i Have a 87 Firebird Formula and its a beast gota love the 80s

  • My Pontiac went at least Warp 4. And it had phasers too!

  • Does anyone remember the Pontiac LeMans from the 80's what a POS that was!

  • ya i remember those they weren't to good lol even thouhg they were imported from Korea for Pontiac!

  • Or how about the rattling Pontiac 6000??? LOL POS. My old 87 Fiero was a fun car in high school though and my 2005 GTO will never ever be sold EVER

  • there gone

  • the 80s rocks, gm is the best hands down i love driving my fiero and my iroc

  • Bsmith120 you have horrable taste in cars if you think Pontiacs suck. Pontiacs are the best hands down!! If you ask me i personally think all chevys suck

  • i love Pontiac's to i like the ones in the 80s the most the Bonneville the Parisian and one of my favorites the 1984 Pontiac phoenix there all awesome cars all Pontiac's of the 80s i like some today but they don't make them like they used to

  • ya the new pontiacs are a far cry from the ones of the 70's and 80's, but the new G8 is impressive

  • Man Pontiac is dying? I would have said a nuclear war was more likely in the 80's than Pontiac dying. Sad times.

  • Is that woman getting a speeding ticket? What is that about?

  • I live in the Detroit area, and this commercial came on so often that the primary use of our remote control was to turn the damn song off as fast as possible. Seriously. If this commercial had a drinking game attached to it, everyone in Detroit would have died of cirrhosis by 1989.

  • I remember this music from the huge Pontiac dealership in Grand Rapids, MI. They used the music in every commercial from 1987-1997, Orsen E Coe Pontiac GMC

  • They shouldn't scrap Pontiac, they should just make performance cars that people want, the G3 or whatever they call the Pontiac version of the Cobalt is a disgrace.

    All they would have to do is make a cheap Fiero and Trans Am and people would buy them, who the hell wants a Pontiac Montana???

    This commercial was filmed in Toronto, anyone that lives here will notice Sam the Record Man and the Gardiner Expressway!

  • I agree. The G5 is worthless. I would be first in line to get a new Transam.

  • The G3 is the Pontiacs Aveo which is just a Daewood. The G5-Pursuit (not just G5!) is the crudely Pontiac-badged Cobalt with a rushed grille that looks like it dosen't fit and GM being who they are now Nissan wannabe tailights. The ecenomy is in a reccesion yet people can plunk up a few grands to buy Smarts and G5's, I'd beleive that we're in a reccesion if people did the right thing and brought cheap cars like Fieros, they're more sporty than import tuner wannabe Cobalts.

  • I am one of the minorities, but I thing G8 sucks. Part of the reason being it too, is not a real Pontiac. Just a re-badge of the Holden. G3 is the rebadge of Daewoo, G5 is a rebadge of the Cobalt, Vibe, rebadge of the Toyota, Torrent being rebadge of the Equinnox. Only true Pontiacs left now are G6(due for a major re-work), and Solstice, now they killed 2 of the remaining best, True Pontiacs. GP(the 08 that I own and love) and Bonniville. They are as good as dead the way it is. Sad, but true.

  • as good as dead the way it is NOW that is, and thinK that is, rather than thing. Damn typos.

  • actually, i guess you know nothing about the commodore, because it is an amazing car. in case you don't know, that's what the g8 is in america, and its very good. those australians actually know how to build cars better than we do. there is no american car that measures up to the commodore, and monaro (2000s gto) was even better! the easiest car in the world to powerslide.

    if america made the new gto for real, it would have just been another stupid straight-line only car.

  • I completely agree with your comment. GM let Pontiac fade away just like Olds. They really should drop GMC and rebrand Saturn as the "Green Car Company" Morons at GM did it again.

  • I agree, the 04-06 GTO and the G8 are pathetic. The Australians brought shame to the GTO name and the G8 is just a Charger wannabe.Those cars are just thoughless rebadges of foreign cars. The Camaro, on the other hand, was done right. Completely engineered for the American market, not a rebadged kangaroo chaser. It's a welcome addition to the Camaro name. Holden helped to kill Pontiac with weak product, but made the best Camaro yet? Just shows you that GM plays favorites with its divisions.

  • I've actually chased kangaroos through a field in a Commodore (G8) and it's quite well-suited for that purpose...

    GM-Holden in Australia had their act together and produce much more competitive cars for their market than the arrogant head office clowns in Detroit. They send out a stream of clueless execs to Australia but the GMH locals prevent them from doing too much damage.

  • All the major auto mags all over the world declared the G8 GXP the greatest Pontiac of all time. Most power and best handling and said it bested BMW! If anything, that certainly would have HELPED Pontiac stay alive if the darn thing was released a year or two earlier. Your average person on the street doesn't know what a Holden is, let alone give an eff. They just like the car. Now the reviews all say, what a history making car this was and too bad it was nipped in the bud.

  • I have a 1989 Firebird and still runs great. im proud of that.

  • Cool commercials, and awesome cars...you could walk into a dealer and have a choice between a mid-engine two seater GT or a bad ass Trans-Am...but now GM has destroyed themselves, they have nothing to offer on at Pontiac. I blame Bob Lutz, he should be fired. He has no direction like most GM managers, opting to take designs from previously released models and slap classic names on them like the GTO, disgracing the heritage. Bob Lutz said "The Firebird is dead", well Bob so should your career.

  • ya your totally right about that man his career should also be finished

  • @IndustrialBaron Bob lutz the putz is only one of the people who deserve to bear the blame. He was one of the moron engineers who jumped on the FWD bandwagon back in the 1980s. Roger smith, the man who gutted GM and put forth the FWD shitboxes of the late 1980s and 1990s GMs is another man who deserves all the blame.  He's dead now, 'couldnt happen to a nicer guy.' As far as the GTO goes, I dont know why people hate it, its an IRS V8 sports car, no it wasnt made in America. But...

  • @IndustrialBaron Amen!

  • My sister and I memorized this song and we would try and be a fake band singing this song. Good memories.  That was good music too!

  • This is totally awesome I love the song Pontiac's fly!

  • I so remeber this commerical

  • See, now that's cool. GM gets a rock band in the background and makes an ad look kind of like a music video or something. It's so over the top that its funny and cool. They should do stuff like that today.

  • ya they so should your right its a shame today today's cars are boring and so are the adds thats why i drive nothing but cars from the 80s some good ones from the 90s and maybe a good 70s car if it runs

  • The audio quality is not poor IMO.

  • :19

    love it.

  • jajaja ¡que mona! los pontiacs viejos de los 1980s son un encanto.

    what a cute commercial! old 1980s pontiacs are great.

  • Awesome commercial. I remember this one. I thought the yellow car was a Vette at first, but it's a Fiero.

  • miss the 80's :(

  • Me too!!! Man i remember that ad, i wish i can go back and re-live it!!

  • Gotta love the rebel flag at the end of the video ;)

  • i miss the 1980's good think i own a 1987 trans am so i can keep the 80's alive for me

  • ya 2007 lame  ... thanks for posting.

  • I WANT to have that song . And i want back to the 80's even i wasn't born . It's great better than 2007

  • Filmed on Yonge Street in Toronto, Canada. Sam The Record Man store can be seen on left hand side at 00:29. Gardiner Expressway on there too, I think.

  • GTA is the best

  • one of the best commercials i ever seen

  • I completely agree...

  • Car commercials were so catchy back then

  • I've got my Pontiac Firebird 5.0 L last weekend and it drives great! Best car ever! But it has a lot of rust. :-(

  • cool commercial but there was a post cerial commercial in the beginning

  • Anyone know if the full song is available on MP3?

  • I need the song too!!!

  • I love Pontiacs!!!!!!!!!!!

  • firemanstud1981...Pontiac needs to get back to making exciting cars instead of just duplicates of Chevy's

  • thats my point.

  • Even though this commercial is 80s it still makes you want to buy the trans am-it was great marketing.Thats why pontiac was such doing so great in the 80s and early 90s they built excitment and not lame ass cars like everyone else.

  • LOL @ girl getting speeding ticket

  • wow. that was SO eighties :-P

  • That jingle's awesome! I remember that one. Way better than Madza's "Zoom zoom zoom." Maybe not as cool as Dirty Vegas on the Mitsubishi commercials,but still good.

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