{"id":11012,"date":"2009-05-01T21:26:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T04:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11012"},"modified":"2009-05-01T21:26:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T04:26:54","slug":"automobile-new-cars-ceo-defends-killing-off-pontiac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11012","title":{"rendered":"Automobile New Cars &#8211; CEO defends killing off Pontiac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">GMC and Buick survive the cuts, while Saturn, Saab and Hummer will be gone by the end of the year<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As he faced the media this week and announced the death of the Pontiac brand, GM CEO Fritz Henderson testily defended the decision by attacking &#8220;frankly disconcerting&#8221; coverage of whether it should have been the GMC truck brand or Buick to receive the axe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">GM executives have been very protective of Buick, not because it&#8217;s been burning up the sales charts in North America \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in fact far from it \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but because of the brand&#8217;s popularity in China&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/auto.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20090430.whAutoBuzz0430\/GAStory\/specialGlobeAuto\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GMC and Buick survive the cuts, while Saturn, Saab and Hummer will be gone by the end of the year As he faced the media this week and announced the death of the Pontiac brand, GM CEO Fritz Henderson testily defended the decision by attacking &#8220;frankly disconcerting&#8221; coverage of whether it should have been the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-new-automobile-products-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11013,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11012\/revisions\/11013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}