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Pontiac - one of the US car industry's most iconic brands - has finally gone out of business.
It happened a year after its parent company General Motors announced its shutdown in a major restructuring.
Set-up in 1926, Pontiac came to embody the image of the American muscle-car, with hugely popular models like the Bonneville, GTO and Firebird TransAm.
The cars featured in Hollywood movies in the 1960s-70s. But sales had been in decline since the 1980s.
Finally, GM's catastrophic financial problems spelt the brand's demise.
Full article on BBC website.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11663244