Search Details

Word: pontiacs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...company suspended production of the Chevrolet Malibu, the country's favorite family car and one of its all-time best sellers, totaling more than 6.5 million cars in a 20-year run. A year later, Ford claimed that turf with the Taurus. In the next 10 years, Chevrolet and Pontiac sales slid 37%, Cadillac's 42%, Buick's 49%. Oldsmobile's crashed 71%. The company lost a total of $30 billion from 1990 through 1992, a cash drain that amounted to nearly $50 million for every working day every year for three years, before the GM board finally staged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GM GETS SET TO HIT THE ROAD | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...years and the return of the once popular Malibu family sedan with both headroom and horsepower to spare. From Oldsmobile there is the Intrigue, a new nameplate for an elegantly tailored four-door sedan that, its chief designer says, "looks like a car dressed in a Chanel suit." From Pontiac, there is a two-tone macho minivan for suburbanites who still lust for the fast lane. From Saturn, the EV1, a noiseless, all-aluminum electric vehicle. From Cadillac, Catera, GM's first Euro-American entry, designed to take on such young luxury imports as the BMW-3s and Lexus ES300...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GM GETS SET TO HIT THE ROAD | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...next morning, a "very alert officer" from the Daytona Beach Police Department spotted the men's 1988 Pontiac station wagon parked in Daytona Beach early in the morning, Special Agent Bill Cheek of the Jacksonville, Fla., FBI office said in an interview Friday...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Senior Helps FBI Nab Suspects In Michigan Kidnapping Case | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...young Lott family returned to Pascagoula, where Trent practiced law. But after less than a year, the district's veteran Congressman, William Colmer, chairman of the rules committee and a staunch segregationist, offered Lott a top staff job. The family packed their belongings into a green Pontiac Bonneville and set out for Washington, as Tricia put it, "to stay a couple of years and see if we liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LOTT LIKE CLINTON? | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

SENTENCED. JONATHAN SCHMITZ, 26, guest on The Jenny Jones Show who killed fellow guest Scott Amedure after Amedure admitted to having a gay crush on him; to 25 to 50 years in prison; in Pontiac, Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 16, 1996 | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

Previous | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | Next