{"id":85841,"date":"2013-10-27T08:28:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T15:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=85841"},"modified":"2013-10-27T08:28:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T15:28:27","slug":"feds-told-gm-to-drop-pontiac-or-no-bailout-ex-gm-exec-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=85841","title":{"rendered":"Feds Told GM To Drop Pontiac Or No Bailout, Ex-GM Exec Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-textannotation-id=\"5352130bf47aaabe6e807db9de60a739\">When General Motors shut down Pontiac, it left a lot of enthusiasts wondering why. It was primed with a lineup of powerful, rear-wheel drive models, and seemed like it had a bright future ahead of it. It turns out that GM killed it on government orders, according to former GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-textannotation-id=\"e46b3de12614ca4dbfb0765d773defc6\">Friend of Jalopnik and west coast editor for Autoweek Blake Rong had an interview with Lutz today, and from what Rong is putting out on his Twitter feed, it&#8217;s full of plenty of bombshells. None bigger, though, than this one:\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/the-feds-killed-pontiac-bob-lutz-says-1452735716\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-textannotation-id=\"e46b3de12614ca4dbfb0765d773defc6\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When General Motors shut down Pontiac, it left a lot of enthusiasts wondering why. It was primed with a lineup of powerful, rear-wheel drive models, and seemed like it had a bright future ahead of it. It turns out that GM killed it on government orders, according to former GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz. Friend [&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-85841","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\/85841","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=85841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85843,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85841\/revisions\/85843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}