AUTOCITY CUSTOMER GALLERY

Maria Wilthew---'04 Chevy Malibu Max

Donald Shackelford---'05 GMC Denali XL 

Braulio Ramirez---'05 Pontiac GTO 

EL ZOL 95 AND AUTOCITY JOIN FORCES IN PROMOTION!

Front view of El Zol 95/Autocity G6 to be given away in 8 weeks!

Rear view of El Zol 95/Autocity G6!

AUTOCITY OF PINECREST AND EL ZOL 95 TO GIVE AWAY PONTIAC G6!

Autocity of Pinecrest and the # 1 rated Hispanic Radio Station in Miami, El Zol 95, have joined forces to give away a brand new 2005 Pontiac G6. Starting Monday you will hear on El Zol 95 what listeners need to do to win this beautifully logo-wrapped G6. What they need to do is simple: visit our showroom and register. The G6 will be making the rounds to more than 20 clubs from which El Zol 95 broadcasts live every week. We think that hundreds, maybe thousands, of listeners will be visiting Autocity of Pinecrest to register. El Zol 95 is definitely the most popular radio station in Miami at the present. We are fortunate to have them as partners in this exciting new venture.

Side view of the El Zol 95/Autocity G6!

View from the top of the El Zol 95/Autocity G6!

AUTOCITY CUSTOMER GALLERY!

Dhavynia Eustaquio---'04 GMC Envoy!

Cesar---'05 Pontiac Aztek! 

Rose & George Khawly---'05 Buick Rendezvous! 

Rodolfo Fernandez----'05 Pontiac Bonneville GXP! 

William & Kristen Kiriako---'05 Pontiac GTO! 

George Lewis----'02 GMC Sierra Denali 

Ed Castello---'03 Chevrolet Corvette 

2005 Buick Terraza!

GM MINIVANS IMPROVE SAFETY RATING!

2005 Pontiac SV6!

Web Posted: 04/23/2005 12:00 AM CDT
San Antonio Express-News

General Motors' new line of minivans that debuted for 2005 got the top safety ratings from their recent testing by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

All four of the new vans — the Chevrolet Uplander, Pontiac Montana, Buick Terraza and Saturn Relay — earned overall "good" ratings in the institute's frontal offset crash test, the highest rating the agency gives.

These vans join the Toyota Sienna, Nissan Quest, Honda Odyssey and Ford Freestar/Mercury Monterey on the institute's list of minivans with "good" ratings.

Vans with midlevel "acceptable" ratings from the institute's tests are the Kia Sedona, Mazda MPV and segment-leading Dodge Grand Caravan/Chrysler Town & Country.

The "good" ratings for the new GM vans is a great improvement over the "poor" rating of their predecessors — the pre-2005 Pontiac Trans Sport/Montana and Chevrolet Venture.
Among small pickups, three 2005 models with extended cabs earned the top safety rating in recent institute testing — the all-new Toyota Tacoma, Nissan Frontier and Chevrolet Colorado/GMC Canyon. Earning "acceptable" ratings were the Dodge Dakota and Ford Ranger.

Although the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also conducts frontal crash tests, the institute's test is at a higher speed — 40 mph vs. 35 mph for the government test — and is an offset crash, where the left front of the vehicle strikes a barrier. This more closely replicates a real-world frontal crash, such as would occur if part of a vehicle drifted across the highway center line and struck another car.

In the government test, the car's full front hits the barrier at 35 mph.
Based on the results of the 40-mph offset test, the institute gives each vehicle a rating from "good" overall to "poor." In between are "acceptable" and "marginal" ratings.
The best performers are given the institute's "best pick" designation. "Best pick" honors were given only to the Sienna, Odyssey and Freestar/Monterey, based on their receiving "good" ratings in all sub-categories, such as structure/safety cage, head/neck, chest, leg/foot and restraints.

The test results for the Uplander signified a "dramatic improvement compared with earlier minivans from General Motors," the institute said.

"The Uplander (also sold as the Pontiac Montana SV6, Saturn Relay and Buick Terraza) replaces a minivan design that was sold until this year as the Chevrolet Venture and Pontiac Trans Sport/Montana and until 2004 as the Oldsmobile Silhouette. The earlier minivan design was one of the worst-performing vehicles in the institute's frontal crash test."

"When the institute tested the 1997 Pontiac Trans Sport, there was massive collapse of the occupant compartment," said Adrian Lund, the institute's chief operating officer. "Major intrusion into the driver's survival space pushed the steering wheel toward the dummy and violently snapped the dummy's head backward. Deformation of the area near the driver's feet was so great that the dummy's metal foot broke off.

"In contrast, the Uplander performed very well in this test," he added. "The occupant compartment stayed intact, so the driver's survival space was well maintained. The dummy's movement was controlled reasonably well. There were high head accelerations when its head hit the steering wheel through the airbag and then struck the pillar between the doors. This means the Uplander's performance wasn't good enough to earn a 'best pick.' Still, it's a huge improvement compared with GM's previous minivan design."

As for the small pickups, they are "getting better," the institute said.
"The newly tested small pickups all have extended cabs, which have become the norm for this class. None of the previous small pickups with regular cabs earned a 'good' rating in the institute's frontal offset test, but now three small pickup designs earned 'good' ratings based on this test."

Lund said the all of the smaller pickups that have been redesigned recently have earned better safety ratings than their predecessors have.

The Tacoma's rating improved to "good" from "acceptable," and it was the only one to get the "best pick" designation, the institute said.
Frontier's rating moved two notches up — from "marginal" to "good," as did the rating of the Chevrolet Colorado/GMC Canyon, compared with their predecessors, the Chevy S-10/GMC Sonoma, the institute said. The Dakota, which was redesigned for 2005, moved to "acceptable" from "poor."

The Uplander, Montana, Relay and Terraza have been designed to look more like SUVs than traditional minivans, with longer hoods. It could be that the longer hoods — similar to what you would see on a midsize sport utility — have helped increase the vehicles' frontal crashworthiness.

The Relay and Terraza are the first vans in the Saturn and Buick lineups. Buick got the Terraza to replace the Oldsmobile Silhouette, which was d

GAS PRICES ON THE WAY DOWN!

By Dale Jewett
Automotive News / April 19, 2005

DETROIT -- One week after the average price for unleaded gasoline and diesel fuel hit all-time highs, prices were slowly retreating as crude oil prices hovered around the $50 per barrel mark. The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded stood at $2.224 on Tuesday, according to AAA of Heathrow, Fla. That was down 5 cents from the record $2.276 set on April 11. Diesel fuel was selling for an average of $2.3518 a gallon, AAA says. That's down from the record $2.388 on April 11.

But the falling prices may not last long. The price of crude oil for May delivery rose above $52 a barrel on Tuesday, according to Bloomberg News. The price was rising on speculation that growing demand will draw down inventories, Bloomberg said. The run-up in fuel prices over the past three months has been singled out as a key factor in the troubles facing General Motors and Ford Motor Co. So Automotive News will post twice-weekly updates on fuel prices.

The updates can be found at autonews.com/gasprices. Rising fuel prices have contributed to sales drops of light trucks at GM and Ford. With fewer high-profit light trucks moving off showroom floors, GM and Ford have made steep cuts in their estimated earnings for the year.

FACTS ABOUT BUICK QUALITY!

DID YOU KNOW? . . . Following are a few key facts highlighted in the J.D.
Power and Associates' special report on quality:

Buick ranks second in long-term dependability, behind only Lexus.
Buick is among the industry's top five in initial quality.
Buick ranks second in customer satisfaction

AUTOCITY CUSTOMER GALLERY

Maria Gallardo---'02 Pontiac Aztek

Zhong Hong---'04 GMC Yukon 

Victor Torres---'05 GMC Canyon 

Lucia Savery---'02 Saturn SL1 

Eulalia Gaitan---'05 Pontiac G6 

Solstice Early Order Program Status and Updated FAQ's

As of 5:00 PM EDT on April 16th, there were over 25,000 customer
registrations with unique ID numbers generated on-line at
www.pontiac.com/apprentice. Already, over 5,500 early orders have been
taken nationally including the first 1,000 Exclusive retail orders and over
4,500 waitlisted orders. To date, over 30,000 customers have participated
in the program based on total customer registrations generated and early
orders taken. These current results demonstrate an unprecedented demand for
the Solstice. The program period ends April 24th.

FAQs ~ Next Steps for Order Verification

Q: What are the next steps in the verification process?
A: Program Headquarters will conduct the following:

The auditing and verification team - which is a part of Program
Headquarters - will contact each participating dealer who has been
assigned one or more of the first 1,000 Exclusive retail orders.

Dealers should provide the auditors with the names, phone numbers and
unique ID numbers of each customer for whom the dealer has placed an
Exclusive order. The auditors will not require information for
waitlisted customers unless they become eligible at a later time.

Once the auditors have gathered this information, Program
Headquarters will begin verification and reconciliation of all order
information.

If there are any discrepancies with the information provided by a
dealer and the information contained in the customer database,
Program Headquarters may contact dealers for additional information.

This will complete the first and most important phase of the customer
order verification process.

Program Headquarters will then confirm all information directly with
the customers and make sure all information in the system is correct
and current.

The final step will be to consolidate all of the verified Exclusive
retail orders with the corresponding VOM order information that
dealers have submitted to the website. Dealers will be able to enter
the 6- character, alpha-numeric VOM order number from April 18
through April 25 at 6:00 PM PDT, if they have not already done so.

Once Program Headquarters has verified and approved customer
information for every Exclusive order, the final list of the first
1,000 retail orders will be submitted to GM Order Fulfillment to
schedule for production at a later date.

As demand has been overwhelming for the Solstice, dealers are
strongly encouraged to place early orders against their estimated
4-month allocation quantities or to place customers on their own
individual dealership?s waitlist.
FAQ?s ~ Dealer Website and System Questions

Q: How many customer registrations have been generated?
A: Original projections for on-line customer registrations following The
Apprentice debut were expected to be around 8,000. Demand was unprecedented
between the time The Apprentice aired and the time the dealer website went
live at 2:00 pm EDT on April 15. We had approximately 20,000 customer
registrations generated by that time, surpassing all best estimates.
Current registrations represent a 400% increase over projections.

Q: How much traffic was expected to the secured dealer website?
A: We experienced 200% -- 300% more initial demand on the system than
projected so the computers were backed logged with requests. Immediate
steps were taken by the technical team to safely re-allocate more resources
to allow adequate web flow to meet the heightened demand in the system.
Although we realize that this may have caused frustration on the part of
some users, the underlying cause was due to overwhelming volume of dealer
entries at 2:00 PM.

Q: Why did some dealers receive a ?Server Busy? or ?Server Application
Error??
A: The website was operating slower than anticipated in the first 20
minutes due to the high volume of dealer activity. Slowness in the system
application meant that some dealers experienced a ?busy? error message. As
it was first-come-first-serve, orders were placed by those dealers who
logged in or re-logged in and entered ID numbers in a timely manner.

Q: Were some dealers kicked out of the system during ordering?
A: It is possible that some dealers were timed out while waiting for the
system to respond, or that a page was frozen and required the dealer to
re-log in.

Q: What could have caused the system to be slow in responding or lock up?
A: The volume of dealer activity caused some dealers to experience slow
response times. Web pages can freeze or be locked up if a system is not
responding or is experiencing delays.

Q: Were any dealers disadvantaged due to the unprecedented volume?
A: No. The entire country went live on the system at the same time and
dealers everywhere were placing orders on a real-time basis. Slower than
expected response times were experienced by all dealers concurrently. Even
though the system experienced a heavy load during the initial start-up, the
order entry and confirmation process was fair and equitable to all users
based on the time of entry into the system. While we realize the response
time may have caused frustration on the part of some users, the system
assigned orders in real time on a first-come, first-served basis.

Q: How many dealers actually were able to place Exclusive orders?
A: There were 657 dealers nationally in 47 different states who placed at
least one of the first 1,000 retail orders.

Q: How long did it take for the first 1,000 Exclusive retail orders to be
placed?
A: The first 1,000 retail orders were successfully placed within 41
minutes of the initial start time of 2:00 PM Eastern Time.

Q: When can I enter the 6-character VOM order number into the dealer
website?
A: Starting Monday April 18 through Monday April 25, dealers can enter a
VOM order number for an eligible customer into the dealer website.
If dealers experience any difficulty, they should contact Program
Headquarters to make sure the VOM order number is entered correctly.

Q: What happens to a customer that received a Conditional Confirmation
page but was unable to print the confirmation?
A: The next step in the verification and auditing process for verifying
the first 1,000 Exclusive orders will be for Program Headquarters at
1-866-539-0256 to contact dealers to verify all customers with pending
orders.

Q: Can a dealer find out where a customer falls on the waitlist?
A: Program Headquarters cannot give out that information. Customers on the
waitlist who do become eligible will be contacted by Program Headquarters
in sequential order in the event of an order cancellation or if an order is
deemed ineligible.

Q: Is it possible that the chance to place an Exclusive order will be
re-opened?
A: To date, all 1,000 Exclusive retail orders have been assigned and are
subject to verification by Program Headquarters. The program will not be
re-opened for additional Exclusive orders. Orders will only be assigned to
waitlisted customers in sequential order upon an order cancellation or if
an order is deemed ineligible.

Q: If a dealer has customers on the waitlist, what should the dealer tell
them?
A: As there are no guarantees that a waitlisted customer will be contacted
to place an Exclusive retail order given the overwhelming response in the
first day of the promotion, dealers are strongly encouraged to place orders
against their estimated 4-month allocation quantities. Or, place the
customer on their individual dealership?s waitlist. Dealers should remind
customers that the Solstice is a low-volume production vehicle and is
currently experiencing unprecedented demand in the marketplace.

Q: When should eligible customers who have placed an Exclusive retail
order expect to take delivery?
A: Customers should expect to take delivery in the Fourth Quarter of 2005.

GM WILL BUILD REAR WHEEL DRIVE CARS!

Automotive News / April 18, 2005

DETROIT -- General Motors is scouring its shelves to find an architecture for its next generation of rear-wheel-drive vehicles. One option under consideration is something GM executives are calling "Zeta light," a lower-cost version of the Zeta architecture that was supposed to be the basis for a new generation of premium rwd vehicles in North America.

In March, GM put several 2008 vehicle programs in limbo, including a production version of the Buick Velite concept and replacements for the Pontiac GTO and Buick Park Avenue. GM insiders say Zeta light is one of many rwd proposals floating around the company that use existing platforms and components. Other possibilities include Sigma, the rwd architecture used by Cadillac's sedans and sport wagons; and Kappa, GM's small, sporty rwd car architecture debuting this year with the Pontiac Solstice. No direction is clear.

The bottom line: GM insiders say they want rwd vehicles, including one in the mold of the Camaro muscle car, which was discontinued in 2002. "It's something everybody wants to do," one GM insiders says. "We just have to do it right." Last week GM Vice Chairman Robert Lutz told the SAE World Congress in Detroit: "We're going to take another look at high-performance rear-wheel drive. But it's going to be something I call Zeta light." Jim Hall, an auto analyst for Auto-Pacific Inc. in Southfield, Mich., and a former GM employee, says there is an appetite for high-image, moderately priced vehicles inside GM. But there's a problem. "The margin is very low on those vehicles," Hall says. "That's not what GM needs right now. What they need is a high-margin home run."

In a recent interview with Automotive News, GM Chairman Rick Wagoner said Sigma could be another option for rwd. Wagoner said GM could decide to use either a Sigma derivative or a cheaper version of Zeta. Wagoner said the economics of the derailed Zeta program didn't add up. It was "too expensive for what we wanted to do with it," he said. "This needs to cover a range of price-sensitive segments. The initial designs we saw of Zeta were not what we wanted, so that's where the costs began to come apart."

Wagoner also said rwd cars are "not a massive profit-driver decision in the near term." He added: "We need to do it right. In the scheme of things of what's going to drive the business over the next three or four years, this isn't the most critical item we're looking at." GM spokesman Pat Morrissey says anything is possible: "We have different, flexible architectures on the shelf that we can look at other options. We're not starting from ground zero."

VIBE HISPANIC TV SPOT WINS AWARD!

VIBE'S "CITY LIGHTS" AD AMONG BEST HISPANIC SPOTS OF YEAR . . . The April 7
issue of Adweek's Marketing y Medios magazine named Pontiac Vibe's "City
Lights" spot as one of the 30 Best Hispanic Spots of the Year for 2004,
beating out more than 200 entries from 45 companies. The article
accompanying the "Best Hispanic Spots" list observed that several of the
best spots used cultural insights to tell a story and featured consumer
interaction with their cars, a departure from general market ads that tend
to focus on cars' attributes and financing. This ad marks the first time
that Pontiac used Accentmarketing, GM's advertising agency for the Hispanic
market, to create a TV ad for both Hispanic and general market media
placement. The spot featured Hispanic actors and Latin music from the
Panamanian band, Rabanes, which has been recognized with two Latin Grammy
Award nominations. "Latin culture continues to influence general market
trends," said Mark-Hans Richer. "We're proud to utilize our Hispanic agency
for the development of this spot. Accentmarketing is best equipped to
develop the ad due to the growing impact of Hispanic influence on the
young, urban Vibe target consumer."

FIRST 1000 PONTIAC SOLSTICES GO FAST!

From yahoo.com---April 15, 2005

DETROIT, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- One thousand lucky driving enthusiasts are looking forward to receiving an exclusive version of the new Pontiac Solstice roadster after being first in line to participate in a special promotion announced on Thursday night's episode of NBC's The Apprentice. Only 41 minutes were required to sell out of the specially-badged "First 1,000" Solstices.

"With the great response we've seen to the design and performance features being offered in our new Pontiacs, we were expecting many customers to jump at the chance to order one of the first Solstices," said John Larson, general manager of Buick-Pontiac-GMC. "But we were thrilled that we achieved such amazing results so quickly."

Orders were received from more than 650 dealers in 47 states. Additionally, more than 4,000 customers have asked to be placed on the wait list for one of the exclusive vehicles.
The Solstice early order program will continue through Sunday, April 24. Although the exclusive "First 1,000" cars have been ordered, Pontiac dealers have an additional allotment of Solstices available for pre-order during this period.

The Sevilla Family---'04 Buick Rendezvou 

GM MAY RESURRECT THE FIREBIRD AND CAMARO!

From Automotive News--April 13, 2005

DETROIT -- General Motors is considering creating a rear-wheel-drive performance car in the tradition of the discontinued Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird. "We're going to take another look at high performance rear-wheel drive," GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said Tuesday at the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress. A Camaro-type vehicle was expected to be part of the rwd Zeta architecture being developed by Holden Ltd., GM's Australian subsidiary. But GM recently halted development of that program, saying vehicles would be too costly. GM executives have said they are exploring existing GM rwd architectures to house vehicles similar to those proposed for the Zeta program. Options include modified forms of the Zeta and Sigma architectures. Sigma is a rwd architecture used by Cadillac.

HERE IS.....THE SOLSTICE!