A vehicle with a depressing past and certain doomed future. This Chevrolet Venture wannabe has attempted to establish its own name…and pretty much fizzled out. A van is a van is a van. People want more style and pizzas for their money and the Montana definitely does not exude originality and is completely devoid of any style what-so-ever.
As if it were a great surprise, the Pontiac Montana has been lacking the sales needed to keep the assembly line running. The 2006 Pontiac Montana will be the last van made for a full production year for the United States. Canada, for some ungodly reason, continues to amaze us with their extremely high demand levels for this craptastic vehicle. Maybe the Pontiac Montana SV6 has them drooling. 200 hp Don’t ya know? I can’t believe Pontiac thought that 200 hp was worth boasting about. Does someone want to break the news to them? The Pontiac 2007 Montana SV6 squeaks past the chopping block, but the masquerading Chevrolet Venture should be shelved until the designers get released from the big house for felonies of design.
In the early days there was the Trans Port. That box-like plastic-sided piece of American dung that was passed off as a futuristic vehicle in cheesy ‘B’ rated movies. Plagued with ugliness and unreliability, this van tried to evolve into its namesake trim level, Montana.
Any Pontiac dealer should be willing to give a great deal as they struggle to reduce their inventory of these unsightly hunks of junk. Why they continued to make the 2001 Pontiac Montana, the 2002 Pontiac Montana, the 2003 Pontiac Montana, the 2004 or the 2005 Pontiac Montana is beyond comprehension. It just de-evolved into a blob of steel and glass. The most boring van of all the vans out there.
Don’t even begin to think that this is just another rant from a jaded ex-owner. Just look at the bland, unexciting appearance of the Pontiac Montana. People are still wondering how the hell it got off the concept designers Etch-A-Sketch’. The commercials should have started out with word association. The doctor says. ‘Pontiac Montana’ and the patients just sit there with a gaping mouth. Just look at all of the Pontiac Montana problems. Recalls, Faulty handbrakes, unsafe seating, wiper motors, Check Engine lights every 200-300 miles, flat batteries every other week, premature transmission and engine replacements just to name a few. There are even cases of having to replace a 1998 Pontiac Montana fuel line, and 1999 Pontiac Montana headlights fail instigated a 546,000 vehicle recall! What a poorly designed piece of junk. If I was the designer of this vehicle, I’d expect my company to come and whack me for embarrassing them.
Just read any of the Pontiac Montana reviews and you’ll see the van for the ugly piece of American junk that it is. It wouldn’t surprise anyone if they hit the Pontiac Montana remote and the thing just collapsed into thousands of unrecognizable pieces.