Bonneville & SSEI Name Origins
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I have the orginal video (I made it) I think its hosted somewhere...search the forum for "commercial" or "commercials" without the quotes with the author Hans
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Originally Posted by franois
SUPER SPORT EDITION INDUCTED
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They took "Bonneville" off the car (as well as the names of some other GM vehicles also) for marketing purposes. The reason being, the name "Bonneville" conjured up images of clunky, lumbering, snoozemobile barges of the 70'* and then into the 80'*. As such, scaring away potential "youthful" customers.
Heck, my GTO doesn't say "Pontiac" on it anywhere. For '05/'06 that changed, but they wanted to get potential BMW/import people to look at it and they thought that having the Pontiac nameplate on it, would scare them away or something due to the "image" GM products have had over the years of "lesser" quality. At least that'* what they claim anyway.
Heck, my GTO doesn't say "Pontiac" on it anywhere. For '05/'06 that changed, but they wanted to get potential BMW/import people to look at it and they thought that having the Pontiac nameplate on it, would scare them away or something due to the "image" GM products have had over the years of "lesser" quality. At least that'* what they claim anyway.
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My 93 SSEi doesn't say Bonneville anywhere on it. Only a very muted PONTIAC molded into the rear bumper cover passenger side.
My 95 SLE is similar, but doesn't say PONTIAC anywhere now that I took the trunk badge off. It has BONNEVILLE very muted across the center of the rear bumper cover.
My 95 SLE is similar, but doesn't say PONTIAC anywhere now that I took the trunk badge off. It has BONNEVILLE very muted across the center of the rear bumper cover.
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