Not to be confused with the firebird
The Netherlands Recently Gained Another Car Brand: Firefly. The Electric Firefly is QUITE A SPECIAL THING, But Not the First Car With That Name.
The New Firefly is special because it’s a car without a separate brand and model name. It’s Simply Called ‘Firefly’, And We’ll Wait and See What Happens When Nio Subsidiary Firefly Wants To Come Up With A Second Type. The name ‘Firefly’ is QUITE WELL Chosen for a Small EV, Especiate if that EV HAS A KINT OF COMPOUND EYE WITH ITS SIX HEADLIGHTS. However, The Chinese Didn’t Come Up With It Entirely Themselves, because there was Already A Compact Car with the Name firefly.
For that, we have to go far back in the past, and also search in the more obscure corners of our car archive. At the p of pontiac we find the firefly there, not to be confused with the much more famous and aspecyly Much Tougher Pontiac Firebird. The firefly was every thing that firbird wasn’t. It was a small, light and economical hatchback, and one of the few pontiacs not offered in the united States. The Pontiac Firefly was initially only offered and build in Canada, but later was reportedly also on the menu in the middle East. It was Nothing More or Less than a Suzuki Swift with Pontiac Logos, Spread over No Less Than Three Different Generations and Four Different Body Variants. Duration its life, the firefly was available as a three and five through hatchback, four-by sedan and-yes-a real convertible, just like our swift from the nineties.
The Pontiac Firefly First Appeared in 1985, then based on the square swift that was also in our showrooms duration that period. In 1989 followed the Better-Known, More Rounded Swift That was also available as a convertible, and in 1995 it was time for the third generation. That was only available as a three-through hatchback and four-through sedan, and something special was going on with this car, because the center of gravity of the collaboration Between Pontiac’s Parent Company General Motors and Suzuki Now Shifted More Towards. This third firefly/swift/metro was only for North America and Did Have Suzuki Engines, But A GM Body.
The fact that the pontiac firefly was only sold as such in a handful of Countries undoubtedly also explains why we could only find very few photos of the car. So we have also added some photos of the geo metro, because that is the name that Exactly the Same Car had in the United States. The Only Difference Between the Metro and the Firefly was Usually The Type Designation. Both Cars had a slightly different Nose Compared to the Swift and also Got Different Rear Lights. So imagine that pontiac logo in the case of the metros, and you have a good picture of the firefly from those years.