1985 Pontiac 6000 commercial

[skaterspwn]

I LOVE MY 6000

[MaestroTJS]

Yeah, well, if you couldn't get your hands on one of these, you could have bought the Chev/Olds/Buick equivalent. I mean, how much difference was there, really?

[emmettk]

@MaestroTJS Sure, it was GM badge engineering as usual, the 6000 was the same basic car as Chevy Celebrity, Olds Ciera and Buick Century but the STE edition did add quite a few features that weren't available on any of the others. I had an '85 STE and it was loaded by the standards of that time. I loved the car even though GM reliability had taken a turn for the worse by that time.

[Tbolt1000TForLife]

@joshua76az hay, you first faggot!!!

[Tbolt1000TForLife]

@joshua76az fuck you motherfucker, these are awesome cars!!! i have a 1986 STE and i live it!!!!!!

[Annihilator1111]

the 1982-1991 Pontiac 6000 was assembled in

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Tarrytown, New York, United States

[kascnef82]

This inspired the makers of Robocop to make fun of the car as the 6000 SUX.

[SteelCity1981]

The Ponitac 6000 headlights look to funky it looks like there are 3 headlights on each side the turn single next to the grill those it off.

[crk1121]

HAHA look at how easily it just bounces around the corners

[laserstun]

GM badge engineering at its finest. This was the same basic car as the Chevy Celebrity, Olds Cutlass Ciera, & Buick Century. All pretty decent cars for their time, but still, GM was competing against themselves. At least they made an effort to make the 6000 a little more high-tech than the other "A" body cars.

[dhernb11]

My first car :)

[fordxbgtfalcon]

@dhernb11 my first car too! I miss it...

[Tbolt1000TForLife]

i drive a 6000 STE, but mine is an 86', i love it!!!

[gravelandgrain100]

my first car!!! I cursed the day I got it when it broke down and I missed my Calculus and German final, causing me to be put on academic probation the next semester. Fun car otherwise, put a sh it load of miles on it!

[48jarmell]

that shit was scrapin

[legitimatemind]

I like how most of these car commercials have sped up drive by footage. So lame.

[jpusar]

How can anyone defend a company that makes such a large and heavy car, and places a heavy engine that amounts to only 90 hp! Yes. Other models existed w. bigger engines. Doesnt matter. People complained that the yesteryear Hyundai Sonata was slow when equipped w. the 4-cyl engine, but it WAS fast with the 6-cyl. Why? Because cheaper = more people buy! So more people experience the economical variant. Its the reason why Hyundai's new Sonata only comes with a very good 4-cyl and no 6-cyl.

[TheLizardKing1967]

A BOX on wheels and now out of business. lol

[koioo2]

i read see about pontiac am thinking if car sales where good than wy is pontiac gone

[meyersd66]

@koioo2 Pontiac is gone because of GM corporate mismanagment. Pontiac used to make innovative cars, but at the end they were reduced to rebaged versions of other division's cars. The 80's was really the last time Pontiac had a clear purpose. Chevy made mostly family cars,(except Camaro and Corvette) Pontiac was primarily the performance division. Oldsmobile was entry level luxury, Buick was mid range luxury and Caddy was high end luxury.

[koioo2]

@meyersd66 just give the anser but also pontiac is gone last ceo manager delete all the real pontiac replace it with holden cars.take chevy netherlands its dawoo or chevy.buick regal is opel insgnia

[emilen2]

SUX 6000

[hallebman2009]

my first car was 85 pontiac 6000 station wagon all white with navy interior it had fm and am radio with a 8 track player and a adapter for a cassete player. had it until 1994 when i lost it during the northridge earthquake.

[wendileona]

I'm loving the 80's synth-electronic-futuristic music in these commercials.

[koioo2]

@wendileona so do i

[firedragon689]

R.I.P pontiac you will be greatly missed):

[fenix144]

@firedragon689 no...

[MattTheSaiyan]

This car doesn't look half-bad.

[legorret1]

Bad quality but the shape was nice !

[jakesaintsrow123]

actually the quality was great i still see lots of 1982-1991 Pontiac 6000 and 6000 ste around same with all the others ,celebrity.olds cutlass,ETC.

[LaugermanPROductions]

This guy I know has a 1986 6000 LE wagon and he says it works perfectly

[johrons]

you right late 80 and 90s was just to put something out

[rooster5500]

Wow, the voice over sounds like Roger Jackson - the phone voice used in the Scream movies. I'll bet it's him.

[johnnyafairbanks]

Nope; that was the late, great Don LaFontaine, as was mentioned before.

[rooster5500]

@johnnyafairbanks. Ah yes, you are correct indeed.

[Ruler2009]

Those cars were HUGE shit pieces. They ushered in the cell-phone-type marketing mentality -- good for two or three years then throw it away.

[emceeslo]

Your words are ture, but you have to give some credit where it's due. AND IT IS HERE WHERE IT IS DUE!!! The 6000 STE WAS and IS the exception! My parents had one brand new with suede interior. The motor was good and did not represnet GM junk, they still hold up very very well.

[cabasse]

damn thing handles like melted butter.

totally dig the digital dash though!

[firstmusic00]

A Chevy Celebrity with a different badge.

[emceeslo]

Very true indeed. But this is when the GM divisions were alowed to still do there own thing. And boy did Pontiac ever did a good job with the STE! Check out the Wikipedia article for it. My parents had one brand new. Great Car and worthy of all prase that usually escapes GM.

[PuppetKing]

Excitement, that car, really? I felt asleep as soon as I saw that car. Firebird and G8 is what gets u excited.

[whattheheck1000]

This could wake me up from a dead sleep at 9 AM.

[benwmayes]

No doubt GM has improved since this rolling hunk of metal. This thing is like the small sedan version of the Griswold family truckster, with the 6 headlights stacked in the front!!

[niels0827]

Just a matter of opinion, but this 6000 is 6,000 times more attractive than any car made today by any company.

[Intelpentium54321]

but not the sould ;p lol

[t1bmxfbm]

100% true thats why i drive a 1978 trans am

[SonnyJamesJefferson]

I really agree with you. I think cars in the 80's and 90's had a nice look to them. They're starting to get a little too rounded out. I always preferred boxier cars.

[fenix144]

@niels0827 it's ugly

[crammage]

@niels0827 except for the pontiac g8

[Ivannos92]

@niels0827 everyone says that their cars are the best....that's why no one is right

[sketchyinc]

@niels0827 To bad so many people on You Tube have fetishes for destroying 1980s cars!!!!!!!

[DisneyAlexMojo]

RIP, Pontiac brand!!!!!!!!!!!! :-( lol

[saorielric]

6ashley ste

[steffidude]

We owned a 1997 Pontiac 6000, and it was the absolute worst car I ever owned. Now wonder I never see any on the highway anymore. GM made a lot of junky cars..

[thatmuse76]

My father for some strange reason bought one in 1985 and bought two others, a 1988 STE and a 1990 SE All Wheel Drive, all of which were pretty poorly built cars (the 1985 was the worst as it was built at the GM plant in Tarytown, NY which produced the poorest of the poor). It really shocks me in the commercial did not show parts falling off as well as the paint flaking during aggressive driving maneuvers.

[Jurassic0Al]

Well, even if the poor quality you speak of in those Pontiacs is true, GM would never show it in their commericals.

[Tbolt1000TForLife]

@thatmuse76 your right, they did buld these with poor quality sheet metal, but if taken care of with great care, they last forever

[djwbhdkwndk]

no such thing as a 97 6000, you lie.

[steffidude]

My mistake, I was referring to my 1987. I made error typing in the year. i do not lie.. thanks

[steffidude]

I am sorry because of the error on the year of the Pontiac 6000. We owned a 1987 Pontiac 6000. I made error typing the year.

[11paterj]

good cars eh? i got one. aunt bought in new. its in my vids.

[legsbluetrain]

Pontiac's new slogan should be "Excitement Builder"

[blaknoizee]

Its actually an exciting commercial. Unlike commercials of today.

[Jurassic0Al]

And it makes sense! In an age where a Hummer commercial wherein said vehicle assembles itself from scattered parts, and another commercial where a Dodge is shown to be impervious to fairy dust(?), an interesting, logical commercial like this is almost unheard of.

[Tim751]

GM Should Make More Commercials Like This One.

[Ladiespetmansthreat]

I rember banging a chick in tha back of this car in 2005 20 years later lol

[Matanjun1970]

Can This Car Escape From Police Chase

[thatmuse76]

While it handled better than the Impala cruisers of the era it would more than likely break down. Although that horrible 2.8 V6 was pretty good at laying down oil slicks on the highway.

[veltpak6]

"thats why the pontiac 6000 was rated one of the top 127 enthusiast cars"

[klined]

moms has a 1987 ste she bought new. I still love that car

[whattheheck1000]

Who is the announcer?

[Watcher3223]

Sounds like Don LaFontaine, a.k.a. the Voice of God.

He does lots of movie previews.

[danzapata]

Wasn't this car based on the Chevy Celebrity?

[OLDS98]

They shared the same platform. It was called the GM A-Body. The Chevrolet Celebrity, Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera/Ciera, and Buick Century and Pontiac 6000 all were on the same platform, but different to some degree. The Century and Ciera were the last to go in 1996. Century in 1997 moved over to the W-Body with the Regal. Ciera was replaced by the Malibu based Cutlass. Pontiac 6000 STE was replaced by Grand Prix STE.

[floyd26n08]

thats the same voice for movie trailers

[legsbluetrain]

He makes it sound agressive as the driving of the cars.There is more agressive driving in Pontiac commercials than any other car company.I noticed that.Look at other Pontiac commercials.They always drive them fast.

[freeballer81]

Man that guy has been announcing for over 20 years.

[orangie84]

This is the exact music I was looking for.

There was a commercial they played back then the exact same music but they didn't talk over it.

I want that cammercial

[legsbluetrain]

I like this music too.I remember hearing this when I was between 4 and 6 years old.

[NotSoViolentToy]

"We Build Excitement-PONTIAC!!!" Jesus, I have gotta get me one of those.

[hiptech]

Ahh, Motor Trend's Car of the Year for 1985, what a milestone, what a car, what a piece of crap!

After countless broken power door and window switches, windshield washer pumps and rack & pinions (6 in 5 years) along with countless dealer problems this was our last GM vehicle, ever.

As they used to say back in the day... Ponticrap, we build excrement!

[uakronsam116]

you must not know how to drive and repair a pontiac, and u must not know how to take care of it, my grandfather had a 6000, owned it for about 8- 10 years, and in 96, got a new grand prix, and he said he hated the grand prix, there wa sa wheel problem that no one could ever fix or even figure out what was wrong with it, then in 04, traded the gp for a chrysler pt cruier, and that is also a piece of shit, get a PONTIAC!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PintoPopProductions]

The 1985 MT Car of the Year was the Volkswagen GTI. The STE was one of Car & Driver's 10Best just like it says in the commercial. I own a 1985 STE. It's been taken care of most of its life, and very rarely does anything break on it. The only major part that doesn't work on my car is the rear air compressor for the ride control. Otherwise it runs like a champ with 177k miles. I've known that car my entire life and it's bailed us out every time our other vehicles break.

[kai21787]

uh just threw up!

[reffup]

my dad has gone through 5 or 6 pontiac 6000's scince i was born.. he useto buy them for like 400$ put a few hundred into them and drive them till they blew up.. there wer a few of them i liked but i certainley remember one above all others.. it was a PIECE OF SHIT it was a gold color falling apart you couldnt tell the rust spots from the painted body for christ sake.. but other than that they seemed to be descent cars

[ooadjudantoo]

You guys know what means PONTIAC ? Poor Old Negga Think Its A Cadillac .

[hujass1]

Recognize the voice over guy? Don LaFontaine, the voice of over 5000 movie trailers.

Anyway, my mother had a 6000 in the early 90s. It went through 2 engines and was hardly a performance machine.

[orangie84]

Coming soon to a motion picture theater near you.. lol

[joshieduckie]

those are awsome!

[vipertruck05]

Yep that 6000 is one performance machine !!!!

[RadialSkid]

Actually, the 6000 STE would probably surprise you, especially with the available all wheel drive.

[vmelkon]

I prefer the 6000 SUX model

[danzapata]

It's a grandma car!

[danzapata]

The Pontiac 6000 shared the same body as the Chevy Celebrity, which was a compact model of the Caprice. It also shared similar slying as the Caprice. My conclusion: Grandma car!

[tiaguarrra]

Grandma car? It's a Pontiac 6000 STE...not a standar Plymouth Reliant

And Chevy Caprice was very different than Celebrity.Anyway Caprice wasn't a grandma's car; it was a cab, police cars and many other kind of service vehicles

Regards

[branharman]

I got an '89 SE with 180,000 Kms on the engine and have never had a single problem with it, one owner never had any reason to trade it, those 2.8L V6's from the 80's never die with a little TLC

[smrra]

I had a 1985 STE and it was one of the best cars I ever owned...I loved it!! I put 150,000 miles on it and NEVER had a single engine or transmission problem. And the exhaust note was sweet! I miss it.

[AirCargoHeavy]

I had one, too. Mine had 171,000 on it and was still going strong until the day my dumb ass wrecked it.

[Razun]

:( I wish I could say the same. It's my second car and so far it had one transmission problem...easily fixed though.

The digital read out of any problems on the dash board is brilliant. I always know when to take it into the shop. I love it.

[josh198869]

what you do you mean you all ways new when to take it in to the shop? did it have like a service light that would come on?

[Razun]

It has a read out that tells yous if you have a door open, needs and oil change and oil filter, if it needs a tune up, if you're low on fluid, if one of your lights is out, if you're having an enging problem, if your trunk is open, and if you're low on gas. I can't remember if is has more, but it's very useful.

[XxNoNamexX32]

I have a 88 6000 wagon refuses to die 133k.Neglected and abused and keeps on goin .

[jpowell180]

I knew a chick whose family had an 80's-model Pontiac 6000 - their eldest daughter gave it to them or something - and the younger sister drove it around town..there was just one problem - it couldn't go in reverse gear, so she'd have to get parking spaces she could drive forward out of...

[kwhitegocubs]

My first car was an '87 6000. The timing belt snapped at 170,000 miles, but it was a damn good car for me. The muffler fell off, it had lots of rust and the seat fabric showed all over, and my friends called it the Blue Bomber, but its the most reliable car Ive had to this day. Woot!

[N1trostyle]

That commercial actually made this garbage on wheels look good! I'm impressed!

[lervin78]

My parents owned a brand new '85 6000 STE. It was a very cool car at the time, but it had big electrical problems that often resulted in random no-starts. After leaving my mom, sister, and I stranded numerous times in the first year of ownership, the STE was traded in. No one in the family has owned a Pontiac since.

[Mechapatriot6000]

Cool

[quirpco]

coolest Celebrity ever made

[ghbbb123]

Hey it may be an A body but it's definately not your grandma's celeb!

[Intersonus903]

Or your grandpa's Buick Century.

[Tuneman1984]

Or your uncle's Olds Cutlass Ciera

[TaurusLX1988]

Damn i loved the digital dash on this car, more complex than the digital of my 1989 Taurus

[rw93090]

I love that STE only front end

[RicanSHO]

Thanx for posting this. The 6000 STE was actually a revolutionaty car for Pontiac and it still has a place in my heart.

[emceeslo]

Me too RicanSHO! It had the quicker steering rack and good suspension with 4-wheel discs instead of discs in front and drums in the rear. The '85's had a great exhaust note, too!

[joh2]

An interesting approach, having the larger sized engines powering the FRONT wheels...

[hakadalmann]

davesfarm's pontiac from hell is better, but it's killed now

[ghbbb123]

NO! It's alive and well! currently living it's life as a three wheel car for improved handling. Check it out on daves channel!

[Tuneman1984]

I remember my best friend's dad having one, it wasa silver '88 if I remember right. Used to love the sound of the 2.8 On a side note: that's none other than Don Lafontaine narrating is it not?

[leoconvoy]

yep,that's don alright!

[thatmuse76]

My father had a 1988 STE with the rare Getrag 5 speed tranny. It was a nice looking car, but it was very poorly built. I don't know if there are any cars on the road built as badly as the Roger Smith era General Motors cars (or as the Lee Iaccoca Chrysler products).

[emceeslo]

My father had an 1985 1/2 with suede interior, grey/charcoal exterior. It did not fall to sub-pieces and actually held up well but it was garage kept.

I AM SO ENVIOUS OF YOUR FATHER'S 5-SPEED. Very rare indeed and if I EVER find a clean '85 in that combination, it's mine!!!

[leoconvoy]

this was my 2nd car, and i loved it 2 death!!!!

[davidandnidia]

Cool.

[OLDS98]

Thank takes me back to the good days when Pontiac was selling some cars!! Thank you for adding this GM Pontiac footage. I placed it in my favorites.