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, HagertyThe Bonneville is an automobile built by Pontiac from 1957 until 2005. It was initially introduced as a limited production performance convertible, the Pontiac Star Chief Bonneville, during the 1957 model year. The car was known for, with the exception of a brief period between 1982 and 1986 where its seventh generation was mid-size, being full-sized: The Bonneville, and its platform partner, the Grand Ville, are some of the largest Pontiacs ever built; in station wagon body styles they reached just over 230 inches (5.8 m) long, and at aroun 5,000 pounds (2,300 kg) were also some of the heaviest cars produced at the time.
The name was taken from the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, a site known for being a hotbed of early auto racing and the place where most of the world's land speed record runs were set, which was named in turn after U.S. Army officer Benjamin Bonneville.
Film — Live Action
- Blue Ruin has this blue and ruined Pontiac Bonneville sedan, the car of Dwight. And what we mean by blue and ruined, it's blue and the car its battered up, rusted and full of bullet holes.
- Danny in Last Action Hero watches a Film Within a Film in the theater called Jack Slater 4, where the titular in-movie character (Arnold Schwarzenegger) jumps into his convertible Pontiac Bonneville whilst evading his enemies vehicles.
- Los Bandoleros, a Fast & Furious short has Dominic Toretto drive this around the Dominican Republic.
- Sheriff Buford T. Justice in the sequel of Smokey and the Bandit switches his LeMans for a Bonneville as his police car, and just like the previous movie, it became a Running Gag where it comically gets into a world of hurt as the Chronically Crashed Car. And for some reason, it's still drivable.
- Starting season 6 of Better Call Saul, Kim Wexler starts driving a green 2000 Pontiac Bonneville sedan as her replacement of her previous Audi A8 L.
- It's a Pontiac-palooza in I Dream of Jeannie when it comes to the Bonneville:
- Mafia III gives you the Potomac Gallant, a 4-door '65 Bonneville Expy sedan commonly used by citizens of New Bordeaux and extensively used by the Marcano Crime family.
- For Twisted Metal: Head On, the pink Thumper transitions from an Impala to a classic Bonneville lookalike.
- Moe from The Simpsons has a Mk6 Pontiac Bonneville. In one episode, the car is the source for Moe and Homer, where they try to commit insurance fraud, just to collect $5,000 from the insurance policy.
The Fiero is a rear mid-engine sports car manufactured and marketed by Pontiac from 1984 to 1988.
Intended as an economical commuter car with modest performance aspirations, it was Pontiac's first two-seater since their 1926 to 1938 coupes, and the first rear mid-engine mass-produced car by any American manufacturer.
In addition to using 4- and 6-cylinder engines to comply with American corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards, the Fiero was characterized by its light weight, with its chassis and structure technology using non-load-bearing, composite body-panels, contributing to the car's unique selling proposition. Pontiac engineers modified its design over its lifetime to enhance its performance and reposition the two-seater closer to the implications of its sport configuration.
Its 2M4 (two-seat, mid-engine, four-cylinder) variant was on Car and Driver magazine's Ten Best list for 1984, and was the Official Pace Car of the Indianapolis 500 in 1984.
The Fiero would become known for suffering criticisms related to its mild performance, however, as well as reliability and safety issues, resulting in it being discontinued after annual sales fell steadily.
Films — Live-Action
- The Fiero in general is a popular base car used to make Ferrari or Lamborghini replicas, do to being an inexpensive mid-engine car, and would be used in movies with tight budget caps. Especially as means when it comes to wrecking the car during filming.
- Being the continuation of Breaking Bad, El Camino has Badger's Fiero reappear, being handed to Jesse as a getaway car by Skinny Pete, who comments that it's a perfect getaway vehicle as "no self-respecting outlaw would get caught dead driving that thing."
- In F9, a "Rocket car" Fiero was the car chosen to fullfil the long-running meme about The Fast and the Furious film series' Sequel Escalation and actually send a car into space.
- In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Jeanie's (Ferris's older sister) car was a Fiero.
Live-Action TV
- A Fiero was Badger's car in Breaking Bad.
- One of the Fiero's most famous appearances in media was in How I Met Your Mother, where it was subject of a Running Gag in which Marshall had a Fiero (which definitely had seen better days) that had a cassette tape of The Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" stuck on repeat. It finally "died" after Marshall hit a pothole just before the car reached 200,000 miles, after which Marshall decided to "let the car die with dignity" (after a mechanic said there were no guarantees of it running again). In the DVD commentary of "Arrivederci, Fiero", Marshall's actor Jason Segel noted that the scene of him parallel parking the car was a bit difficult, due to the Fiero's infamous lack of power steering.Marshall: Arrivederci, Fiero, you were the freaking Giving Tree of cars.
- In the Young Sheldon episode "Family Dynamics and a Red Fiero", George shows up to a Thanksgiving dinner in the titular red Fiero.
Lester: Mine. 1970 Pontiac Firebird. The car I've always wanted, and now I have it. I rule!
The third option of a pony car other then the Mustang or Camaro. ...or maybe fourth if you count the Challenger.
The Pontiac Firebird is a muscle car built and produced in February 1967, merely five months after General Motors's own cousin, the Chevrolet Camaro started production. As a pony car, the Firebird was intended to compete with the Mustang.
In 1970, the Firebird had a major overhaul, replacing the "Coke bottle" styling to a much more swooping fastback design. That version only came in coupe form as convertible versions were not available until 1989. The Firebird is offered in various models such as the Esprit, Formula and the Trans Am.
While the Firebird saw lasting success, especially being widely used in the Trans-Am series for motorsport in The '60s and The '70s, as well as being utilized as the pace car in the 1989 Indy 500, the Firebird ended production on August 2002, implying GM's means of saving money, reducing competition and making room for other manufacturers.
Anime and Manga
- Shuu's black Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am is no doubt his Cool Car in Glass Maiden, as seen in the promotional poster.
Film — Animation
- A minor character in Hot Wheels: World Race by the name of Maximo, drives a modified 1990's Firebird as a member of the Street Breed team. This car came with the modifications that were mandatory for the Street Breed vehicles, such as a Grappling Hook, a Spy Viewer, and the ability to reach a top speed of 300mph.
- The Prism Stone manager and MC Rei Kurokawa of King of Prism: Pride the Hero brings out his Automated Automobile; a pink pimped out Pontiac Firebird complete with his brand logo aroung the car and its make's logo completely visible. He then uses it to gives Kazuki Nishina a ride inside.
Film—Live Action
- The titular character in Billy Madison tries to be cool as he goes back to high school in his black '79 Firebird Trans Am with Billy Squier playing in his car. Cue The Freelance Shame Squad constantly laughing and mocking at him.
- Cannonball can't be a movie about an auto race without a few ones that are considered a Cool Car. The Protagonists Coy Buckman and his buddy Zippo drive identical Trans-Ams for the Trans-America Grand Prix.
- The title doesn't lie here in Firebird 2015 A.D., in which the movie title would refer to Red's restored 1980 Pontiac Turbo Trans Am (with signature fire bird hood decal).
- Archie's dad's Pontiac Firebird gets maimed in High School U.S.A.. When Beau finds out that J.J. is planning to use the car in the drag race, he sends a couple of girls round to seduce Archie and Chuckie into taking them for a ride in it, and then causing them to crash the car by distracting them.
- The Cool Car during the entire third act of Hooper revolves around Hooper and Ski utilizing a highly modified Pontiac Firebird fit with a rocket booster for an attempt at the longest jump over a ravine ever filmed... and running away from a DUI.
- In the live-action Need for Speed film, the '78 Firebird appears as a traffic car, acting as a gag as the three Koenigsegg Agera cars of Tobey, Dino and Pete overtake him at Ludicrous Speeds.
- Perhaps the greatest example is none other than the 1977 action-comedy film, Smokey and the Bandit, with the star of the movie as the Badass Driver Bandit with the other star, the iconic Cool Car, the black 1977 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, using it to distract law enforcement whilst protecting Snowman whose driving a Big Badass Rig, illegally transporting 400 cases of Coors beer.
- In The Wraith, a yellow modified Firebird with a blower is driven by one of the goons of Packard Walsh, and just like the rest of the gang, the car challenges the mysterious Dodge M4S Turbo to a race, only to end up being wrecked and killed.
Live-Action TV
- This was Johnny Lawrence's car he drove over the course of Cobra Kai; a 1991 Firebird he uses for over a decade, before his car got smashed by Louie La Russo and his biker friends.
- Jody Banks of The Fall Guy must be a Fangirl of Firebird Trans-Ams, as this is her Ace Custom Cool Car.
- Dan and his old partner Frank in The Good Guys had a 1979 Trans Am back in the day, according to Dan. By the end of the pilot, Dan and Jack have one.
- K.I.T.T. (Knight Industries Two Thousand), the artificial intelligence whom Michael Knight partners with in Knight Rider, is placed in a black 1982 Firebird Trans Am. K.A.R.R. (Knight Automated Roving Robot), the antagonistic counterpart of K.I.T.T., is also a 1982 Trans Am.
- Besides the Trans Am that usually depicted K.I.T.T., there were also other variants of Firebird shown in the show. The pilot movie featured a pair of car thieves that tried to get away with K.I.T.T., who happened to drive the original first-gen "Coke bottle" version of the car, and a feature in Season 4 allowed K.I.T.T. to become a convertible, introduced essentially as an excuse to show off the (newly-introduced at the time) convertible version.
- A modified Trans-Am stock car was chosen by MacGyver for test driving during "Collision Course". It's an environmental-efficient car with an engine designed by the Foundation.
- The Cool Car of Dillion of Power Rangers RPM. A modified black 1970 Pontiac Firebird with a supercharged blower. He lets Ziggy Grover ride with him during battles.
- Jim Rockford's personal Cool Car in The Rockford Files is a golden brown Pontiac Firebird. Each season, he jumps over the next model year.
Music
- Jaden Smith in his music video "Watch Me" takes his black '67 Firebird cabrio along the deserts.
- Kylie Minogue and his lover rock a blue 1968 Firebird convertible throughout the music video "Some Kind of Bliss", where she finally takes the car for her own at the end following her lover's arrest.
- As an inspiration of the aforementioned Smokey and the Bandit, American rapper Nelly in "Ride Wit Me'' drives a black 1978 Firebird along a desert road, whilst rapping on the walkie-talkie, and hitching a Runaway Bride, Bandit-style.
Video Games
- The Crew Motorfest has the third-gen Pontiac as part of its "Vintage Garage" playlist.
- In Driver: San Francisco, the game features three different second-gen Pontiac Firebird variants.
- One of the fastest Derby cars of FlatOut is the Grinder, a Firebird Trans-Am clone that is driven by the Chinese Lei Bing.
- Forza is high bound on Firebirds, as various trims and generations appear commonly in the franchise.
- Pontiac's first ever highly detailed car in Gran Turismo is none other than the '78 Firebird, which debuted in 6. In-game descriptions are happy to mention any references to Smokey and the Bandit.
- The various Ruiner and Phoenix models in the Grand Theft Auto series are meant to be various generations of Firebirds.
- The 1979 Firebird appeared in Midnight Club: Los Angeles, where it's offered as a pinkslip award after beating Chung Hee. The widebody would transform the Firebird into a Saikou XS from Midnight Club II.
- Need for Speed:
- The franchise's first Firebird appeared in High Stakes, utilizing the 4th-gen Firebird as a Class A car. In the PC release, it comes with a removable targa top and can be either fitted with a 6-speed close ratio for better acceleration or a 4-speed automatic gearbox for higher top speed.
- The portable releases of Carbon - Own the City and Undercover add the 2nd-gen Firebird as a version exclusive car.
- In The Run, it uses the 1978 Firebird Formula.
- The '78 Firebird Trans Am appeared in Most Wanted (2012). Being part of the Movie Legends pack, it is a clear Shout-Out to the aforementioned Smokey and the Bandit.
- The '78 Firebird Trans Am later reappeared in Payback as a post-launch Downloadable Content. This would carry over to Heat and Unbound as part of the base game's car roster. In the latter's case, a Shout-Out has Tess ramble about the Firebird delivery that it's for a PR shoot campaign for "a reboot of an old movie about some wise-cracking mustachioed driver on the run from the law".
- Project Gotham Racing: You have the '72 Trans Am in 2 and you have the '83 Firebird in 4.
- The Pontiac Firebird 2F, a car with the 92 PS 4-cylinder Iron Duke engine, appeared in Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3, under the GM badge. Texas Wolf, The Leader to the all-American Team Alpha drives a white Firebird.
Western Animation
- In the short-lived cartoon The Adventures of Kid Danger, one episode has Kid Danger and Captain Man seen rolling in their Mans Am, a blue spoofed 1977 Firebird Trans Am.
- In The Simpsons episode "Realty Bites", Snake Jailbird's car, the "Lil' Bandit" is a '68 Pontiac Firebird, which he's very protective of. And then it turns out that Homer purchased it.
, MotorTrendThe Grand Prix is an automobile produced by Pontiac from 1962 to 2008; from 1962 until 2002 for coupés and from 1989 to 2008 for sedans.
First introduced as a full-size performance coupe for the 1962 model year, the model repeatedly varied in size, luxury, and performance during its production, positioning in the personal luxury car market segment and mid-size car offering. The Grand Prix was the most expensive coupé Pontiac offered until The '70s, when the Bonneville and the Firebird Trans Am became more exclusive.
From 1983 up until 2004, the Pontiac Grand Prix had been widely used in NASCAR, in which as a stock car helped Rusty Wallace secure the 1984 Winston Cup title as well as the 200th and last victory of Richard Petty during the 1984 Firecracker 400 at the Daytona International Speedway.
Film — Live Action
- The beaten-up car that was driven by Carrie Fisher of The Blues Brothers is a pink 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix.
- Henry Hill in GoodFellas is an avid Cool Car collector, and one of it is a '68 Grand Prix, where Henry, Tommy, and Jimmy used this car to dispose of Billy Batts.
- In Just Friends has Chris on the passenger seat of Clark's Grand Prix and suddenly grab the steering wheel the moment they approach an intersection and went off-course... and the reaction is so priceless:Clark: What the hell are you doing?! This is a PONTIAC GRAND PRIX!
- Fontaine's pale-green '76 Grand Prix in They Cloned Tyrone is his personal Cool Car, also used to give his pals Slick and Yo-yo a ride with.
- The Scorpio Plasma Batteries car, which is the Jack of All Stats Normal Level Car in Daytona USA 2 is clearly based of the Pontiac Grand Prix stock car that competed in NASCAR in 1998.
- The Jupiter Eagleray Mk5 in the GRID series is based on this classic car.
- Ditto for the Jupiter Del Rio in DIRT Showdown, a demolition derby car strongly resembling said classic car.note
If not for the Firebird, then this may be your best bet for the most memorable Pontiac.
The GTO is Pontiac's front-engined, rear-wheel drive sports coupe, introduced in 1963. The name was inspired by the Ferrari 250 GTO, with GTO (abbreviation for Gran Turismo Omologato, "grand tourer homologated") being the FIA certification for racing in grand tourer class. And the Pontiac car was no slouch in that regard: Pontiac actually had the car homologated by the FIA in 1964, so that it was indeed possible for the GTO to compete in European sports car racing.
The first-generation GTO began production on September 3, 1963, where it was an option package for the Pontiac LeMans, being in coupe, hardtop or convertible form and powered by a 352-348 hp Pontiac V8 engine. The GTO was commonly known as the car that kicked off the muscle car revolution during The '60s, and the first of its kind to be produces in mass volumes. This spawned other marques to build their own takes of the GTO, such as the Oldsmobile Cutlass 442, Buick Skylark Gran Sport and the Chevrolet Malibu SS.
General Motors redesigned the Pontiac GTO in 1968, with a much more curvaceous, semi-fastback styling. The following year, Pontiac has released a new model called "The Judge", named after the comedy routine "Here Come de Judge", used repeatedly on the TV shoe Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. The Judge GTO was intended to be cost-effective, allowing it to compete with its rival, the Plymouth Road Runner and the Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396. While the third-generation in 1973 was very short-lived due to its poor reception to the public and discontinuation.
Meanwhile in Australia, Holden, General Motors' Australian division unveiled the third generation Monaro coupe during the Turn of the Millennium in 2001, though it was not only a domestic model, but also for export internationally and rebadged to its respective countries: the Vauxhall Monaro in the United Kingdom, the Chevrolet Lumina in The Middle East and mostly as the Pontiac GTO in the United States. The new-modernized Monaro/GTO utilizes GM's LS1/LS2 V8 engine powering from 350-400 hp. Both the GTO and the Monaro ended production for good in 2006.
Anime and Manga
- The team's car in Black Lagoon is a 1965 Pontiac GTO, and is one of the most well-known, highly sought-after and collectible classic American muscle cars.
- The story of Two-Lane Blacktop has two street-racing protagonists (James Taylor and Dennis Wilson) getting challenged by a mysterious and blustery stranger in a yellow Pontiac GTO to a cross-country Epic Race from New Mexico to Washington, D.C..
- Mason's father in Boyhood used to own one, before it was eventually replaced by a minivan.
- The 2013 remake of Carrie has Billy Nolan's car replaced by a '71 GTO. The car is used to try and run Carrie down during the climax (by Billy's girlfriend Chris in the '76 film, by Billy himself in the other versions), and given Carrie's Psychic Powers, it doesn't end well, as it is also seen the movie poster◊.
- Pickford's GTO in Dazed and Confused is, in the argot of the period, bitchin'.
- The full-custom modern 2005 Pontiac GTO is the car Trip Murphy uses in his first race against Maggie Peyton in Herbie: Fully Loaded.
- There's Gary's mom's blue Pontiac GTO convertible in Licorice Pizza (which Alana drives onscreen more than anyone else).
- Teenage gearhead Michael Harlan in My Science Project, owns a customized Pontiac GTO, complete with a supercharged blower.
- In The Punisher, the 1969 Pontiac GTO is the car Frank drives in the near beginning of the film. It has a bucket seat, is painted in matte black, and has retractable metal bullet shields for the windows. Sadly, it gets wrecked during the battle with Henry Heck and Frank steals his car as a replacement. Despite being a nice muscle car, it's not the same. Luckily, it reappears in a cutscene in The Punisher (THQ), a pseudo-sequel to the film.
- The Road Movie comedy film Sex Drive has Rex in his '69 GTO Judge.
- Xander Cage's car in xXx is cool squared. Not only is it a '67 Pontiac GTO, it's also stuffed with enough weaponry and gadgetry for more than half a dozen James Bond movies.
- The Big Time Rush Mobile in Big Time Rush is a wine red 1966 Pontiac GTO Convertible.
- The Cool Car of Stanley Raymond Kowalski in Due South is a black 1967 Pontiac GTO.
- Major Nelson of I Dream of Jeannie drives various Pontiacs throughout the series, but what stood out his beloved GTO convertible.
- A black '67 GTO convertible is the Cool Car seen in MacGyver (2016).
- Say what you will about The Monkees, that wild custom GTO was pretty cool.
- The Hero's Classic Car of Republic of Doyle: a '68 GTO acting as the main transport.
- Blur has the Vauxhall Monaro as a drift-modified car, and serves as one of the 10 Legendary vehicles.
- The first car you receive in Burnout Paradise is the Hunter Cavalry, a classic muscle car based on the '69 GTO. Its souped-up variant, the Hunter Oval Champ 69 gets a bonus point for mentioning the model year.
- You have the only non-Japanese car in the PlayStation 2 game, D1 Professional Drift Grand Prix, a 2005 Pontiac GTO that was driven by Rhys Millen in the 2005 season.
- Admit it. If it weren't for the Creator Provincialism for the Forza series, you wouldn't see many of its GTO variants. ...and the Vauxhall Monaro VXR.
- When Pontiac debuted in Gran Turismo 4, one of the cars added is the '64 Tempest Le Mans GTO and the 2004 5.7 liter GTO. Also debuting along with it is the Australian Holden Monaro CV8.
- The 1.20 update in 7 included the GTO 'The Judge'.
- The DF8-90 in Grand Theft Auto IV resembles a fifth-generation GTO, while the Arbiter GT exclusive to ninth-gen versions of Grand Theft Auto Online resembles "The Judge".
- Race Driver: GRID adds this as a Drift-class car. This is based on Rhys Millen's RMR Formula D car, complete with Red Bull Racing livery.
- Earlier before this, Creator Provincialism applied has the British GT Valvoline-sponsored Emotional Engineering Vauxhall Monaro in ToCA Race Driver 3.
- Earlier before this, Creator Provincialism applied has the British GT Valvoline-sponsored Emotional Engineering Vauxhall Monaro
- Both Juiced games add both the American Pontiac GTO and the Australian Holden Monaro at the same time. Consider it as a regional Palette Swap.
- The Ripper in Mad Max (2015) is a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo of the 1965-1967 Pontiac GTO. Not only that, you also have the Killcart, a blatant Holden Monaro.
- The Potomac GT in Mafia III is an obvious stand-in to the 1965 GTO, manly used by opponents in New Bordeaux Racing events.
- Widely regarded as one of the American classics of Midnight Club.
- The second game is the car of Diego, a minor character who drives a 1971 Bestia (a classic GTO with blower), where you can obtain for free after beating him in a drag race.
- There are two different versions of the second-generation GTO in 3: A 1968 GTO and a 1970 GTO "The Judge".
- In Los Angeles, the South Central DLC adds the 1966 GTO, one being owned by Pinky (which her car is also painted pink, mind you.) and obtainable via... y'know... Pinks.
- There are some noteworthy examples in Need for Speed:
- The fifth-generation GTO's HSV predecessor, the HSV GTS Coupe, appears in Hot Pursuit 2.
- The 2004 GTO first appeared in Underground 2, being one of the very few American muscle cars in the roster. This car was driven by The Wraiths leader and Big Bad Caleb Reece.
- It plays a critical part in Most Wanted (2005), with the British-badged Vauxhall Monaro joining with the GTO. Said GTO would be the car of Rog during your first encounter in the prologue, whereas the GTO would be Rockport PD's State Cruiser fleet (appears in Heat levels 3 and 4).
- Not only you get the aforementioned 2000's GTO in ProStreet (which is great in grip and drift anyway) but you also get the 1965 version, which is also the car of the Speed King, Nate Denver.
- The classic GTO is present in nearly the early Test Drive games. In TD Overdrive, Skeeter Grimshaw drives a custom variant. The 2005 GTO would be in place instead for Test Drive Unlimited.
- The Question's car in Justice League looks to be a 60's Pontiac GTO. Extra points for using it to drive over some bad guys.
The Pontiac Solstice is a two-seater sports car manufactured between 2005 to 2010, usually sold either as a convertible, a hardtop or a coupe (the latter two were available in 2009). Its exterior was based on its 2002 concept, which preceded it. It was the first ever two-seater of the brand since the discontinuation of the Pontiac Fiero in 1988.
Initially, it's powered by a naturally-aspirated 2.4 L Ecotec inline-4 engine producing 177 horsepower with 166 lb⋅ft of torque. Its powerful version called the Solstice GXP debuted in 2006 and became available a year later, now being powered by a newer 2.0 L turbocharged inline-4, capable of producing nearly 100 horsepower more than its original.
The Solstice utilized the GM Kappa platform which was shared by its General Motors counterparts such as the Saturn Sky, Opel GT and Daewoo G2X.
Advertising
- There was a Super Bowl ad for tire company Bridgestone, showing Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head driving a yellow Solstice GXP around the mountains.
- Apparently, a tricked-out red/white striped Solstice GXP Coupe appears as an electrified automated EV, seen in the hands of Archer March, who gives the titular protagonist a lift in the 2023 film Zoey 102.
- While the Solstice was fairly new back then, it became prominent as the altmode of Jazz, an Autobot from Transformers (2007).
- A red Solstice was driven by a prostitute in one episode of CSI: Miami, where its rear window got shot out.
- Courteney Cox's character in Dirt (2007) pulls up in front of the Hollywood night club in a mysterious Sol, which became fully noticeable.
- A short-lived series called Drive (2007) shows Leigh carjacking a Pontiac Solstice. Too bad she can't drive a stick...
- Unusual for a rally car, has the Solstice show up in DIRT games, usually pulled out from Formula D;
- It shows up in Colin McRae: DiRT 2, using Rhys Millen's Formula D-spec Solstice as a Trailblazer car (with its signature Red Bull livery by default). Jayde Taylor drives this during the rally disciplines.
- DiRT 3 has Darren McNamara's 2010 Formula D-spec Falken-sponsored Saturn Sky as a Downloadable Content Gymkhana car. It returns in Showdown as a Hoonigan car. Being a RWD car, it makes sense that its capable of drifting.
- The very first Driver: San Francisco mission "Prove It", show John Tanner proving to his partner Tobias Jones his ability to shift to another car. This is where John shifts his body to a "jackass" car (a red Solstice) where he uses it to cause mayhem with the cops. Jones is somewhat pleased with that, but at least he proved it.
- There's also a drift-spec version of the Solstice that comes with canards and a rear spoiler.
- Perhaps to be the Improbably Cool Car in Gran Turismo Concept is the Solstice Coupe Concept, for some reason is under GM Design before appropriately appearing under the Pontiac brand in 4, which you can obtain when you get at least all silver in the S-License.
- It shows up in L.A. Rush, which barely gets any pimping.Ryan: The Solstice, it's so new it doesn't need much; a bit of visual upgrading and some custom brakes and this one's ghost!
- The Solstice appeared as one of the playable convertibles in Midnight Club: Los Angeles, where it is prominent in the aptly named "I Know You Got Sol" mission.
- Need for Speed: ProStreet brings the beloved Solstice GXP as a 7th-gen exclusive car. It returns in Undercover where the TCBPD tend to call it just a "sports car".
- Prior to that, there is the Solstice that first showed up in the portable exclusive Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City. A body kit essentially turns it in to a Solstice Coupe.
- In quite a rare case, Test Drive Unlimited features the Saturn Sky as one of the starter cars available. Its original brother, the Pontiac Solstice appears as a Downloadable Content exclusively to the Xbox 360.
