The article didn't say GM was abandoning FWD. It said that they're not going to have a FWD Pontiac. If you want FWD, you buy another GM brand. It makes sense, since there's not really any distinction between the divisions now. They're just the same GM platforms with different names on them. Why not divy the platforms out to single divisions and quit competing with themselves?

Since the idea behind this is to make Pontiac be their performance division, maybe it means the Chevy Camaro will actually be a Pontiac by the time it comes out. Hopefully, they'd call it a Firebird instead of Camaro. I think a Pontiac Camaro would upset people on both sides of the aisle.