Forgotten Classics - The Story Of The Last V8 Pontiac Grand Prix

The purpose of this series article is to reopen the car without loving attracting attention. FC also thoroughly analyzed why such cars are still vague and can never receive praise.

Today's special Christmas Edition theme is 7L Pontiac Grand Prix, best GXP decoration, with 3L LS4 V8 engine.

The seventh Grand Prix, which was released as a 2004 model in 2003, is very eye-catching. Wide, long, low, that is business. Two 8L V6 (one super charge) and one 3L V8 were selected under the bonnet

The Grand Prix's special GXP decoration is very important for Pontiac, and it is basically an E55 AMG for people who have a limited budget. Right now, before I throw tomatoes to me, I know that it has some disadvantages compared to MB, but it is only half the price, so it's hard to complain

I can not stop the list of good things about the GXP model. Performance stop: Please check. High performance brake: Please check. High performance tire inspection performance front seat is designed with leather and white stitch: check. High performance exhaust system goe BBRRRRRPRPP: check, aluminum pedal: check. This list is still in progress

In the GXP, there is a driver-oriented dashboard to strengthen the honeji. It also has a screen, this is novelty of the times.

The interior is also cleaner than the previous Pontiac. This is clearly the root of the return to Pontiac's pure performance.

The entire dashboard looks like this, so the driver can concentrate on cutting vertices instead of asking themselves.

Outside, Pontiac uses the same ideology, that is, it does not exaggerate things. Plastic cladding of the 1990s and unnecessary rear spoilers no longer exist, and GXP is presented in a very German way; muscle elegance

The tremendous torque and power provided by the LS 4 gives the car a great acceleration, and it is amazing to see this video and how it reaches 100 miles per hour. That sound

The examples you can find right now are really cheap, but why? There are many theories about this, but I think that lack of marketing activity and the bad brand recognition at the time are the cause.

Many GXPs are not on sale, and now no one is talking about them. I feel very sad because they are very competent and affordable car enthusiasts and they are slowly dying like a 10-year-old mixed-breed dog in a shelter

Pontiac is gone, it is very sad. In fact, it is not. I had a 1997 Pontiac Grand Prix at the university, but I am thinking about it now, I do not know why. This may be because I was the car that I was most enthusiastic about when I was in my teens, so when my father handed it to me, this I met so far It is the best one among them. However, I think that whatever happens at that time. It is comfortable, spacious and fast. I was hoping to get a 245 horsepower version but I think I still have 200 horsepower power - I remember reading the comment, and some of them said it was "very It is wonderful. " This may have been true in the late 1990s, but now your grandmother will cry out on a 200 horsepower car on the denture ... "I need at least 300 horses .. ... so ... (This is where teeth fall when she tries to talk to Sonata)

In the 1990's the interior of the car began experiencing combustion due to functional overload. The number of buttons is becoming increasingly complicated. For example, please look at Pontiac Grand Prix (fifth generation). Four separate light buttons, separate buttons for four wipers, and a steering wheel full of buttons for God to know. This is just the 90's, the car user interface looks overcrowded! By incorporating more elements into the automotive user interface such as smartphone integration, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections, autopilot, touch screen display. Complex effects of exhausted automobile user interface design trends have not kept pace with the digital technology and direct control tradition that makes the dashboard intuitive and clumsy. Driving is a dangerous activity and all these new features are getting more and more obstructive to drivers. It must be changed.