Overview & Reviews

New styling, a new base engine, dual airbags and body-mounted seatbelts.

User Reviews:

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  BAD - 1996 Pontiac Grand AM
  By custom man - December 19 - 9:30 pm

  Ive had the car for almost 2 years, it is a 5 speed and i luv the car to death, ive had problems all the time but nothing to major all the time. ive replaced the tranny and clutch once and it ran amazingly since. I street race the car, i have a custom exhaust on it, custom intake, and a lot of interior work do to it. they come with the Z24 racing engine (stock 150 HP) since all my mods i have figured that the car has about 185 hp now and amazing take off and torque. i have a lot of corners around here and the car cornered well before hand but now i have replace all the control arms, sway bar mounts, tie rod boots, and end links and the car is amazing at cornering now. All in all i luv the car.

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  well-well - 1996 Pontiac Grand AM
  By jules - August 5 - 5:23 pm

  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 doesnt like it.

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  180,000 miles on my GT - 1996 Pontiac Grand AM
  By mike6t8 - June 8 - 10:00 am

  We bought our black 4-door GT in October of 1996 and put 180k on it! Yes, weve had a few problems but I think every car in this price range will have problems after a while. I think the car has been great to us and I may put another 20k on it before I get something else. Weve had the typical problems that other Grand Am owners claim plus the trans went out at 150k. It was costly to replace, but overall I feel we got our moneys worth on the car in the last 8 years. It DOESNT smoke or use any oil like most other cars driven this much.

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  so far so good - 1996 Pontiac Grand AM
  By gt lover - May 25 - 2:00 am

  the fuel pump went day 9 master cylender went day 60 a replaced by dealer warrenty at a cost of $1700 other than that it has been a good car 27mpg 32mpg

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  AMAZINGG! - 1996 Pontiac Grand AM
  By grandamgtlover - December 5 - 1:23 am

  This car is AMAZING!! I painted it and it looks like a race car! my car is so fast! I have a cold air intake and dc sports racing exhaust with a cat back. It sounds great. I run a 11 second 1/2 mile! It tops about 105 due to rev reduction. Trans spinns great!

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  Commuter Car - 1996 Pontiac Grand AM
  By Mark - August 11 - 9:56 am

  Bought this car from my sister with 140,000 on it, it currently has 155,000 on it and runs great. I drive to school 30 miles every day and 40 miles to work on the weekends. Going 60-65mph on highways and taking it easy in town i am getting 28-31mph consistently. I can go from 300-350 miles on a tank of gas..i have NEVER been able to get more than 12.5g of gas in the car even with the gas light on, great on gas if babied and not bad looking for the year/price

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  My grand am gt - 1996 Pontiac Grand AM
  By maddy - June 17 - 2:00 am

  I recently bought a used 96 grand am gt, so far it has been ok other then my alternator is already going out...but I also have the 95 grand am gt and we have replaced the alternator once, the heater core, the brakes, the thermostat 3 times, and just recently the water pump. but other then that (which is a lot) i have had no MAJOR problems...I love the new look of the 96-98 model grand ams...and it handles well..

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  Fun to drive for price - 1996 Pontiac Grand AM
  By ragu - January 5 - 2:00 am

  1st new vehicle I purchased and overall was a great car for me. Will be selling with 116K miles driven, sorry to see go. First weekend I had the trunk seal failed and rain water filled the trunk (defective seal). Also had problem with driver side mirror adjuster breaking (twice) early on. Lastly, transmission had a pinhole in it, luckily under warranty and was replaced for free. Great value for the price. Even though I had those problems, I was happy with the car.

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  every pennies worth - 1996 Pontiac Grand AM
  By Bryan Mirzaian - August 24 - 8:36 pm

  My dad bought me this car 10 years ago for little more than $6k with 67k on the odo. 10 years later,I still (hard) drive it daily with over 200k miles. @ 178k pulled a 16.07 sec 1/2 mile having less than $180 in performance parts,& that was with almost a half sec crap start! I use full syn oil, changed timely,& replace the usual parts when they fail. Parts failure is inevitable with any car, its the nature of the beast! But have never had to crack the motor open & thats the more pertinent point. Cost of ownership has been very low.My quad4 motor began smoking V6 GA`s with a $25 cone filter, so not sure why one would choose the heavier V6 that has more moving parts to potentially fail.

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  Its a sweet car! - 1996 Pontiac Grand AM
  By Marie w - January 12 - 10:00 am

  I got my car 8 months ago, its been a pretty awesome car. Its got great pick up, and is pretty solid. Ive had to put a new condenser cord in. but thats with any older car.