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...Ought one feel remorse for ethnically cleansing a bag of gummi bears to leave the flavors one deems most delicious?” We also hear he’s collaborating with Gonzalo Giribet, applying the logic of hot chicks and their assistants to the classic trolley car problem. Tell us, Joshua, would you sacrifice five hot chick assistants to spare one hot chick? If so, who would assist that hot chick with all that stuff that only hot chicks do?Timothy McCarthy: A lot of solid work lately. Keep it up, and one day you?...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Hotshots? More Like Waterboys | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...Pontiac brand retired on Monday by General Motors was born as the Oakland Car Co. in Pontiac, Mich., in 1907. GM acquired the company two years later. Its 1926 Pontiac model was so popular that the GM division changed the Oakland name in favor of that of the 18th century Ottawa Indian chief. And its GTOs, Firebirds and Bonnevilles were among the leaders of the pack of 1960s muscle cars. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pontiac, RIP: A Love Affair Gone Sour | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...Unfortunately, my first new car - a 1979 Pontiac Sunbird - was an unfitting $5,300 homage to the old warrior. It was a lemon, a cut-rate and an ill-aimed stab at beating the Japanese competition in the growing market for smaller cars spawned by rising fuel prices. None of the Pontiac heritage had rubbed off on the Sunbird. After the car saw several years of gentle driving, mostly by my wife, an interior door handle popped off. The fan knob went kaput, and the radio played only intermittently. The final indignity was when the hood release broke, making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pontiac, RIP: A Love Affair Gone Sour | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...Pontiac, in fact, turned out to be the worst car I ever owned. And that's saying something, because it trumps my very first (used) car: a British 1960 Morris Minor 1000, complete with its rain-bedeviled Lucas electrical system that seemed to render the car immobile in the driveway whenever the weatherman forecast cloudy skies. For someone primed to love the Pontiac brand, the Sunbird was a disheartening experience. Everything from the trunk lining to the levers used to (manually) adjust the driver's seat seemed flimsy and prone to problems. Service at dealerships was mediocre at best. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pontiac, RIP: A Love Affair Gone Sour | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...real problem facing U.S. car companies is that my family's automotive path has been replicated in millions of garages across America. Unlike me, my kids didn't grow up in the backseat of a Pontiac. They grew up in the backseat of a Honda Accord, then a Toyota Camry and finally a Toyota Sienna minivan. So guess what? I suspect that when it's their turn to buy their first new cars, they'll be looking at the brands they know best, just as their father did a generation ago. Their old man wishes, in his heart, that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pontiac, RIP: A Love Affair Gone Sour | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

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