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Pontiac
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automobile brand of General Motors
Key facts
- Company type
- Brand (1926–1931) , Division (1931–2010)
- Industry
- Automotive
- Founded
- 1926 ; 100 years ago ( 1926 )
- Founder
- General Motors
- Defunct
- October 31, 2010 ;, 15 years ago ( 2010-10-31 )
- Fate
- Closed upon General Motors Chapter 11 reorganization
- Headquarters
- Detroit, Michigan , United States
- Area served
- Canada, United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Middle East
- Key people
- Frank Hershey , Irving Jacob Reuter , Semon "Bunkie" Knudsen , John Z. DeLorean
- Products
- Automobiles
- Parent
- General Motors , (1925–2010)
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- division
- Named after
- Pontiac
- Founded by
- William Crapo Durant
- Headquarters
- Detroit
- Owned by
- General Motors
- Parent organization
- General Motors
- Industry
- automotive industry
- Official website
- www.pontiac.com
- Image
- Trans Am Family.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Pontiac (automobile)
- inception
- 1926-01-01
- product or material produced
- car
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2010-10-31
- location of formation
- Pontiac
- Commons category
- Pontiac
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Pontiac, formally the Pontiac Motor Division of General Motors, was an American automobile brand owned, manufactured, and commercialized by General Motors. It was introduced in 1926 as a companion make for GM's more expensive line of Oakland automobiles. Pontiac quickly overtook Oakland in popularity and supplanted its parent entirely by 1933, establishing its position as one of GM's dominant divisions.
Sold in the United States, Canada, and Mexico by GM, Pontiac came to represent affordable, practical transportation emphasizing performance. The division's name stems from the Odawa chieftain Pontiac, who led an indigenous uprising from 1763 until 1766 around Detroit, Michigan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pontiac” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.