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A Great GT
biggercarrot, 07/15/2002
1996 Pontiac Grand Am GT 2dr Coupe
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Looks sharp! Handles well in snow. Throw on 4 Blizzak tires and 7 feet of Buffalo snow won't stop you.
well-well
jules, 05/13/2005
1996 Pontiac Grand Am SE 4dr Sedan
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American car, American quality but 28 MPG is impressive. In average $100 maintenance per month and you will spend it all for sure. I have 140K miles but still running well. Forget regular gas, it doesn't like it.
great car
mr_smith, 06/11/2006
1996 Pontiac Grand Am SE 4dr Sedan
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My first car was this 1996 Grand Am. All I have to say is that this car took a beating and kept on going. I ran it hard and didn't take care of it the way I should've. My parents gave me the car with about 115,000 miles on it. The only repair they had done was giving it a new alternator. I drove the car for about 50,000 miles (hard and without proper maintenance) with no problems. I backed into a tree and a minivan (hit the van pretty hard) with no damage at all. I rear ended a blazer and the only damage from that was a hole in bumper from the trailor hitch. The only problem I had with the car is that the gas gauge was messed up but if you kept over a 1/4 tank then you'd be fine.
Don't buy this car
wgowern, 06/29/2005
1996 Pontiac Grand Am SE 2dr Coupe
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My car had 3 recalls. The dealer didn't have the parts for one of them & I had to come back. The car failed less than a week after purchase(new). It was an electrical failure in the steering column. It was fixed and the same failure occurred less than a week later. There was several other failures (mostly electrical) over the 7 years I owned this car. Most of the plastic parts cracked or fell off,the dash panel cracked & the mirror fell off. Finally the computer failed and various other electrical components burned up (real smoke). The car repairs would have been much more than the car was worth so it went to a junkyard at 37000 miles. In a word it was a pile of junk.
Not a bad little car
sims, 04/20/2002
1996 Pontiac Grand Am SE 4dr Sedan
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This is a really nice car. The design for price is a plus. It's inexpensive and yet doesn't look like a box. With a little four cylinder engine it can really move too.