1991 Pontiac Grand Prix SE review from North America

Its first two runs were on a tow-truck as:

(a) It needed a new battery;

(b) It needed a new serpentine belt.

Besides, it has had leakages; transmission had to be rebuilt; it is not easily discernible that the brakes need servicing, etc.

I think Pontiac Grand Prix is the best car out there in terms of performance. It has a superior interior design and control panel. Acoustics is fit for royalty. Sporadically I have driven other cars, pricey ones and brand new with hardly any miles, but they do not compare! (Some of them, even though rented for a day or two, affected my hearing adversely and produced sounds resembling a noisy factory. As for their audio station, it was easy: shutting it off altogether was the best option, as it was impossible to bear with the quality.)

Once I even drove the car of a former GM top executive and found its design to be clumsy and get in the way in my driving. That's when I really understood that though my car was 8 years old and cost me lots of money for repairs, it gave me pure driving pleasure due to it superior design and driving comfort.

Dictated by my budget, I had to buy it used. It was my first car as previously I was a public transportation user and had professional drivers driving me for job-related trips. It is hard for me to tell whether my repair ordeals and expenses are related to repair facilities or to the brand of my car. Yet, my intuition tells me that ordeals are caused overwhelmingly due to repair facilities: I have good reason to believe that lots of repairs have been superfluously or unnecessarily done, many others sloppily and inefficiently done. My car either goes to the repair shop for something small and ends up with a chain of repairs, to be towed back to the car-shop shortly after leaving it, or it goes months and months running smoothly.

Last year I ended up paying 4-5 thousand dollars for repairs. In my case, instead of rebuilding it, repairs kill the call, not matter what you pay!!! So practically now I am almost without it. In short, repair brought about deterioration of my car and literally ruined me financially by engulfing all my earnings, which I otherwise manage with military style discipline. It also feels like half of my life is spent in those repair facilities.

Suggestion:

Automotive industry should do something so as not to "touch people's lives" in a destructive way by allowing less room for abusive practices by car maintenance facilities and enable better distribution the wealth in the Twenty-first Century to reflex the major strides car manufacturing has done. People living in the Motor City like myself should not feel centuries remote from the advancement of technology. The visit to the international Car fair in Michigan in Winter 2005 made me feel like I was entrapped in the 18th century by mercilessly being robbed of my hardly earned money to pay for repeated faulty repairs, instead of joining the joy of new and improved technological achievements of mankind, right here in Michigan!

Anyway, thank you Pontiac for keeping our dreams alive! Keep up shinning!