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Title: 1984 Fiero Press Releases - 58 Pages!
Post by: pgackerman on December 10, 2017, 08:28:20 pm

Have a look at Hemmings:
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/12/10/challenging-drive-me-styling-the-genesis-of-the-pontiac-fiero/?refer=news (https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/12/10/challenging-drive-me-styling-the-genesis-of-the-pontiac-fiero/?refer=news)

Title: Re: 1984 Fiero Press Releases - 58 Pages!
Post by: GTRS Fiero on December 10, 2017, 08:37:26 pm

I'm glad the Fiero didn't look like that:

Title: Re: 1984 Fiero Press Releases - 58 Pages!
Post by: Fierofool on December 10, 2017, 08:47:14 pm

The 89 coupe began to evolve into something like that.  Reminded me of the Buick Reatta. 

Title: Re: 1984 Fiero Press Releases - 58 Pages!
Post by: pgackerman on December 10, 2017, 08:48:56 pm

Last one isn't bad looking.  Best '89 I've ever seen.  And I see the Reatta-look.

Title: Re: 1984 Fiero Press Releases - 58 Pages!
Post by: GTRS Fiero on December 10, 2017, 08:52:38 pm

Yes, the bottom 2 bear more than a passing resemblance to a Reatta, but are the same model.  The top one is the 2+2, which is now a fastback.

Title: Re: 1984 Fiero Press Releases - 58 Pages!
Post by: Fierofool on December 10, 2017, 09:07:02 pm

The top one was only a buck.  Not a real car.  The other two were concept drawings.  This is the real car.



I met a guy at one of the Polar Bear Runs who was into Reattas.  He also thought the design came from Pontiac. 

Title: Re: 1984 Fiero Press Releases - 58 Pages!
Post by: GTRS Fiero on December 10, 2017, 09:11:43 pm

I don't believe so.  Those are totally different cars.  The top one (2-tone brown) has a back seat.  It's an '84.  The bottom 2 are clay models.

Title: Re: 1984 Fiero Press Releases - 58 Pages!
Post by: Fierofool on December 10, 2017, 09:15:34 pm

You're correct.  I saved the images a year or two ago from an article on the concept cars.  The top one does have the bumper pads, but it might have been as late as 85.  I don't believe there was an 86 base coupe with pads, was there?  I wouldn't think they'd be playing with a 4-seater in the initial stages of the car. 

Title: Re: 1984 Fiero Press Releases - 58 Pages!
Post by: GTRS Fiero on December 10, 2017, 09:27:40 pm

GM made one 2+2.  It was originally 2 separate cars.  The purpose was to show the strength of the space frame.  Its V6 is an early model, and no recalls have been performed on it.  GM had a bunch of extra '84 models with no VIN's sitting around that couldn't be licensed, so GM put them to use.

More info here (http://www.gafiero.org/bbs/index.php?topic=2833.msg27615#msg27615) and here (http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum1/HTML/097907.html).

Title: Re: 1984 Fiero Press Releases - 58 Pages!
Post by: scottb on December 12, 2017, 06:38:29 pm

Charlie, I think there were bumperpads in 86. That was the last of them, probably made so tjey could use up leftover parts

Title: Re: 1984 Fiero Press Releases - 58 Pages!
Post by: GTRS Fiero on December 15, 2017, 05:54:11 pm

I only saw 57 pages, but cleaned them up a bit.  Future viewers can find them here (http://gafieroclub.org/pics/pip/tshark/FieroPress.pdf).

We don't have the PDF plugin on this site (bandwidth reasons), so you'll have to download the full PDF to view.

Title: Re: 1984 Fiero Press Releases - 58 Pages!
Post by: Roger on December 15, 2017, 08:32:54 pm

Thank you for posting this!