Just over a month ago File for Chapter 11 bankruptcy In June 2009, General Motors announced that the Pontiac division was 83 years old will be “eliminated” at the end of 2010. There are only three 2010 Pontiacs sold in the United States: summer solstice, Vibe And G6 (new G3 were sold here in 2010 but were all 2009 models, while G5 Available as 2010 model only in Canada and Mexico). A little bit of today history of scrapyard cars was one of the last Vibes ever built, found in a yard near Denver, Colorado.
This car is significant not only for being one of the last cars to wear the Pontiac badge, but also for being one of the last cars built by Pontiac. NOh Friendaccused Motor Mmanufacture Iestablished the GM-Toyota joint venture in California, also known as NUMMI.
NUMMI factory started operations as GM’s Fremont SocietyIt built its first car (a C series pickup truck) in 1963 and closed in 1982 after construction its last car (ONE Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera). Restarted as NUMMI, first time Chevrolet Nova 1985 (a kind of Americanization AE82 Toyota Corolla Sprinter) went into production in December 1984. Thus, a quarter of a century and more than eight million vehicles have passed, NUMMI discontinued production Later its last Corolla was completed on April 1, 2010. While there was some noise about the Oakland Athletics Build a new stadium on the site at that point, Tesla was finished buy most of the site after that. Tesla now Build more vehicles more there every year than NUMMI ever did.
Vibe was co-developed with Toyota and is based on the same platform Ninth generation Corolla. The Toyota Matrix mechanically identical and manufactured in Canada, while the version intended for the Japanese market (known as Toyota Voltz) is produced on the same NUMMI line as Vibe and shipped across the Pacific. Vibe/Matrix/Voltz redesigned for the 2009 model yearbut few people pay attention because all the chaos in the GM world at that time.
The last Vibe was built in August 2009. This car was built in July 2009, just before the end.
It lives in West Texas just before reaching Colorado. El Paso about ten hours drive from this car’s current location.
While in the Centennial State, it was parked somewhere it shouldn’t have been and ended up being auctioned off for Pick Your Part.
One person here at Vibe had time to sample some local agricultural products before that happened. At least not yet sticker on the speedometer or on the windshield right in front of the driver’s eyes.
This is the base front-wheel-drive Vibe, although it has an optional automatic transmission. It is safe to say that it started life as a rental car.
Kiss her in the rain, check that achievement, then head back to your new Vibe GT. Pontiac also rented Shwayze not very successfully trying to lure The Youngs into the second generation Vibe.
In Japan, Toyota introduced the Voltz with a particularly crazy skateboard-punk themed ad.
