Pontiac family, grandpa and dad bought nothing but Pontiac's. Stylish vehicle's. If GM gave the brands the same unrestricted development, Pontiac would have made some MONSTER horsepower!!

Chrysler is better than audi ,bmw ,volvo ,MBenz, Jaguar in the 70's

I had a 1985 XJ6 (US) saloon and it was lovely, if a bit ctanky at times. The later versions lacked the Jaguar DNA and the new stuff is, well, not of the same attraction….

I knew someone with a Saturn Vue. It had a honda engine.

All cool car any year all the way to this day for sure. But in 2010 they switched to a consumable, disposable, unmaintainable architecture, just like all other modern cars. The model I am looking for is any year with a small block chevy swap already done and running. Its a hard balance to find between a junked one and disrespecting an otherwise decent example of a jag. Its one of the few "additional" cars my wife would happily tolerate in the driveway.

I've owned several Jags. I still have an '01 XJ8 VDP and an '03 XK8 convertible, 70K and 56K miles respectively. They've been great, and are just lately getting cranky. I love them, but the new ones lack the personality that made Jaguars so special. Loved the episode, HCG! Thanks!

Thank you for the video. Where is Jaguar headed in future? That remains to be seen, but this was interesting to watch the model changes of the XJ series. It really got interesting under Ford ownership. GM at one time wanted to buy Jaguar. They did not. The brand has had its issues, but kept surviving on name and prestige recognition alone.

I drove a Pinto as a messenger for a small bank chain in 1976. The 4 speeds were not bad. Must have driven at least 50 miles per day. My old girlfriend had an automatic '76 Pinto & it was VERY SLOW, almost dangerously so, getting on the freeway was almost like taking your life in your hands. I had an '86 4 cylinder Mustang and the 2.3 liter engine was quite good. Plenty of torque. Only complaint was the stock radiator which was only as thick as my thumb. After a trip in which I overheated returning from Utah I had a V8 size radiator installed & that solved the problem, no more overheating. If you take a look @ the Burr trail switchbacks in Utah, once I had the larger radiator I took the 4 cylinder Mustang down to the bottom & back to the top again. Was running almost hot climbing back up BUT I made it!!

Classic early looks, terrible reliability. The current electric Jags are some of the ugliest cars on the road.

Great video! Although I no longer care for Jaguar(their current direction is garbage)however the XJ is a beautiful car. It would be perfect with a Chevy LS and completely redun electrical system.

No mention of the "J shift" surprised me.

I’ve known a number of Jaguar owners, including a few Brits, and have never once been told how “reliable” they are. Almost without exception I’ve heard horror stories of phantom electrical issues that never get properly diagnosed or repaired, and that they are a mechanic’s nightmare under the hood. I think if it wasn’t for their uniquely Jaguar styling and beauty over the years the brand would have ended long ago. Lol. Thanks for a great video, HCG. 👍👍👍

The Mercury brand is definitely a hearkened back to a forgotten era due to it's defunct division for ford motor company

THE Original XJ was arguably the most beautiful sedan of all time, of any maker. The exterior was DIVINE and the interior almost as good as a Rolls Royce that was several times more expensive. This got WORSE with EVERY GOD DAMNED REFRESH. The PENALTY for its good looks was the low roofline and the terrible back seat, where no adult could fit, especially in the MIDDLE. (I Know, this was the car we went out to have fun after high school graduation, a gorgeous navy blue XJ6 with a tan leather interior, BUT the back seat was sheer torture, and I am only 6 1", not some 7 footer NBA player. Current models are GOD AWFul And GOD DAMNEd Crossovers, AND the interiors have NOTHING IN COMMON with the "English club luxury" of the original XJ. PITY!

Packard should have retained the vertical bars in the grill and not changed to horizontal ones. The Packard radiator shell used to be the most beautiful of all American cars imo.

I hated it when all the american cars started looking like big bath tubes. I myself am a square body fan. The last awesome Impala was 79. All throughout the 80s and 90s was when I lost interest in the impala. How come none of the diecast model companies will do a 1960 Impala. That year was one of the best.

Owned a 2009 3.6L Malibu LT from 2016 to now, though I'm getting ready to sell it. Was a great car, just recently bought a 2022 1.5L Malibu LT and have been loving this one as well!

That Ambassador and Hornet were odd looking cars as many of these. Then again, some are really beautiful. The styling concepts were all about roundness and lots of metal.

Thank you for posting this. I have owned three Mustangs ('67 , '72 ad '76) so I appreciate this.

The '67 Cougar XR7 in Wimbledon white with black interior and Crager wheels is my all time favorite car.

Damn i thought grand tourers are cars that are ment for long distance travel at high speed thus they gotta be aerodynamic, strong engine and comfortable

“It’s My Party” was my favorite song as a child sitting in the back seat of my parents station wagon, no seat belts and the windows rolled up (manually) with my parents smoking one cigarette after another! Yep, those were the days (cough)!

If the models were measurably superior in reliability, they could have outlasted some of the other legacy brands, achieving the target goal of competing domestically with Toyota and Honda. I still like the notion of some plastic body panels and zero haggle on a "value" brand. As it stands, I see very few of them rolling around anymore. I guess they were not particularly reliable. If they were renowned for reliability, I would rather see Saturn around than Buick. At least its niche is still viable. I have no idea what a Buick is for these days.

Thanks, good video. Just one thing , I believe the Shelby had Thunderbird taillights , not Cougsr .

Great video!

That 1967 Firebird at 15:45 stands out in that someome has installed what appear to be Oldsmobile SS1 wheels on it instead of Pontiac Rally 2 wheels... They don't appear to be Buick Rally wheels or Chevrolet SS wheels but they definitely are a GM design.

Great video. 🚗🙂👍

Great video covering my favorite segment of cars. I've owned 2 Camaros, 2 Firebirds, and a modern Challenger. Feel free to make a later pony cars follow up covering the 80s and onward! The lines get really blurred with the introduction of the probe, and the downsizing of the monte carlo and thunderbird. The reignition of the horsepower wars starting in the early-mid 90s is something that doesn't get much coverage either, and the pony cars were right in the middle of things.

Well done this is one of the better video's even a great video good work thanks

Thank you for your video. I do not know how you put all the images together and do the narration. What is interesting is how the segment changed and the models changed over time and moved up in the market or changed segments. Happy New Year to you as well.

Should have dealt with the AMX, which was smaller and faster than the Javelin...

Great first video of the new year, HCG. Well done! 🎉👍👍👍

I was wondering if you would mention the Studebaker Hawk.

67 68 mustang fats back might be best looking car ever

They don't look large when you park them next to modern SUV's and pickups.

A WONDERFUL EXCITING INFORMATIVE VIDEO ON THE PLYMOUTH CRAND, I LOVE EVERY CAR FEATURED. LOL, I AM HOPELESS TOO.

I am glad to say I have driving almost all of them. That was a great time ...

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I love my 02. Saturn sc1. I've had it for 4 yrs the only thing I have done was replace the starter. I have put 30;000 miles on it. I would not own anything but a Saturn. They very easy to work on. I have a 93/94 sl 1 it's got 500,000 + on it now. The only two thing that kill a Saturn No oil Rust.

the styling for the foreign versions beome more indivualized to the markets they were designed for. the australian falcon became so australian that it in no way resembled any other ford product.

Great report on the history of Saturn, but you stated the available engines for the L series as the 2.2L 4 and a 3.5L. That is slightly wrong; the bigger engine that was offered was a 3.0L V6 that was the same engine that was used in the Vectra and the same engine that was used in the Cadillac Catera, except in the Saturn it was transverse mounted.

Well Saturn was to be not General Motor. But did and then failed. Just another GM managers sell out. Keep it up. I am Saturn tech. To the end. Also own 3 Saturn personal. Then own Mercedes after. Only 1 as good.

Wow! Hard to believe the cars in this movie were "mundane for the time." I purposely looked up this topic just because I was so fascinated with how beautiful they are/were. The car driven by Don Knotts was my favorite, probably because of that Baby Blue paint job. I was born in 1965, and I have always loved this movie.

Excellent. You did a great job of the history and many models Saturn had. You explained how they went from independent in GM to being integrated into GM. GM used to run all its brands as semi independent up until the 1980's. Saturn became Opel North America is what took place as they integrated into the rest of GM. I know it may have worked. I know that the last Buick Regal was supposed to be a Saturn Aura replacement. Buick got the car when Saturn was phased out. That car was the Opel/ Vauxhall Insignia. Holden got the car too as Holden Commodore. Saturn was created to take on the imports, but it caused issues inside of GM with the other brands( mainly Chevrolet) and they fought back. I guess the GM dollars could have better utilized. I recall that whole merge with Oldsmobile thing. The Oldsmobiles would have been the upscale cars and Saturn the small cars. All together it was supposed to be GM's import fighter. We all know how that turned out. I know parts of the Saturn Outlook ended up on the GMC Acadia. Saturn hindered GM. It then became an issue of too many brands and trying to maintain them all. Thank you so much again.

We had a 1994 or 5 Saturn sedan- base with manual transmission. I really like it, the way it drove and its materials inside seemed premium for a basic car. We did have an exhaust that would rattle, and you could hear the gas slushing around in the gas tank- both of which the dealer basically said we had to liv with. For these two reasons, my wife hated, but I still liked it for its minimalist and rebellious feeling. I still remember the salesman, Willie at the dealer in Rockford, IL. The longer Saturn was around, and Gm meddles with it- the worse it got. I wanted a Vue when they came out, but never did get one. Nice video- thanks!

Saturn were the last cars of interest to me from GM. They weren't great but they worked well and lasted reasonably long.

Wastnt there an advertisment for ( dent resistant doors)

Too bad Saturn couldn’t have been incorporated into the Chevrolet brand because those engines lasted and they outlasted Cavaliers and so many other small cars. I don’t know what the hell GM did but it worked.

Had two S-series Saturns, they were good little cars and if I could find a nice SW2 5-speed I'd buy it in a second. Ultimately Saturn's demise was due to a change in CEO...Roger Smith set up Saturn, but by the time the cars came to market Roger Stempel was in charge and wanted nothing to do with an independent division.

Saturn's demise could be attributed to it becoming a lot less different than initially advertised. The premise was a ground-up new company that wasn't obviously linked to GM. They killed it off when they started rebadging GM models as Saturns to cut costs.