Pontiac Banshee A Longer Look 

Only a few short years later, Pontiac released the Aztek

This was way ahead for its time. GPS, rear-view cameras, controls, etc. Incredible.

A BLISTERING 210 HORSEPOWER! OUT OF A V8!

Rest in Peace Pontiac

One of my favorite concept cars. It's outer design was truly stunning 10/10

God I miss the 80s and 90s

How many buttons should we add to the steering wheel? Yes.

When futuristic cars were exciting, and not based around infantilizing driverless pods.

This is why they never should of dropped pontiac

This shit is silly now, but I remember building the model when I was a kid. That was the coolest car I had ever seen at the time. Kinda reminded me of that car in "The Wraith".

I remember getting a hotwheel banchee back in the 80's. Coolest car ever.

"A Pontiac vision of the future" although there will be no Pontiac in that future… sadly.

Almost everything you see in this car is included in modern cars like the corvette c7 rip pontiac your ambitious style will be missed

love 80-90 concept cars

2022 version of me: thats some sick drone footage! 1990 version of me: dude is flying the hell out of that heli!

What an awesome 80's intro!

It's funny how some of the features of this car has become the standard on new cars, like the rear video and that windshield display thing.

This was way ahead of its time its crazy

When they say "this is why we can't have nice things", this is one of those things. Damn I'd love this car

It’s kind of impressive how a lot of this technology we now have. The style of the car looks like something from the mid to late 90s, so that came true. The rear view camera, GPS navigation system, individual configuration for stuff such as music (but mostly heating and air for modern cars), etc. It hasn’t really aged that badly, this car.

Love how easy it is for all the engineers in the comments to bash on 30 year old stuff.

Every one of these technologies made it into different production cars!

Those interior buttons definitely made it into production. I remember them in my sister’s Sunfire.

how many buttons can you fit on a steering wheel?

To never be seen again in a GM warehouse in a corner somewhere. :(

He forgot to mention the button on the wheel that switches your AIM-9 sidewinder to your AGM-65 maverick.

Imagine where American cars would be if this got built for real Instead we stayed behind

Another missed opportunity for GM.

Honestly, quite impressive for the time this was built, well done. Just needs a few modifications like the rear, wheels, steering wheel layout, and seats, this would be freaking dope

I'd like to get my hands on that prototype and make molds off of it !

I remember having the hot wheels version of this car.. Didn't think it was real holy shit

210 HORSEPOWER OMG!

This was the Banshee IV from 1988. Pontiac took it on a Tour of some of their dealerships and I remember when it was in Panama City Florida in late 1989. There was one in one of the Back to the Future movies as well. Other than the over the top look, all of these features are here today, even in some cheaper cars. How times change.

people talking smack about this car but most of them are driving foreign cars with the technology from the banshee 30 years later and they think thats kool like gps 30 years later rear view cameras 30 years later isnt that what new cars are barely coming out with so stop the hate and realize this was a long time ago so it was well ahead for its time plus this car looks way better then any new import out there even 30 years later

Thanks for sharing. I remember the Banshee from back then but never got to actually see all this great footage of it driving. GM did a good job with this

This looks aerodynamically sound. The chassis could survive in the 20's with a few tweaks.

The LaFerrari totally ripped off that front spoiler, though.

Pretty ahead of its time. Thank god we got the firebird instead

You know they're hiding top secret alien technology when they cut every scene right before the actors open the car doors.

This thing is so 90s it comes with a Zack Morris brick cell phone.

Damn... it even has a compact disc player!

Thank you for this historically important clip i will always love pontiac and condemn gm for what they did to their wild child of performance experimentation thank you

This design became the basis for the 4th gen firebird

Y'all gotta remember that not only this was the precursor to the Firebird..the 90s Camaro looked exactly like this. My momma had one in red. Also every Pontiac back then got some version if this steering wheel.

The original banshee is from the 60s a John DeLorean creation when he was head of Pontiac.wasnt aloud to produce it because brass at GM didn't want competition to their beloved corvette. Ironically they stole the design and it would become the C3 corvette.

Its like "Kit" and the car from "The Wraith" had a baby....lol

It’s like I’m watching a scam advertisement

The Knight Industries Four Thousand. Better known as "KIFT", from the movie Knight Rider 2000.

Those seats look uncomfortable as hell. And I love the "convenient" steering wheel with its 500 buttons.

As somebody said before - it definately looks like a relation to KIFT (Knight Ind 4000) from the KR 2000 movie. The 'nose' air-intakes, the way the tailgate rakes up at the back, the sunken in wheels, even the wheel design looks very similar - red body, grey interior. The Banshee is by far a beautiful car though - and thanks for sharing ;-)

The 90's fourth-get Firebird really took a lot of styling cues from this car.

The opening seconds seemed like an episode of baywatch.

This car was featured in the TV movie Knight Rider 2000. It became the Knight Industries 4000 and eventually a new body for KITT when his circuitry was transplanted into the Knight 4000.

PONTIAC NEEDS TO MAKE A COMEBACK!! BRING BACK THE TRANS AM AND FIREBIRD THATS ALL!!😎

I had a Hot Wheels toy of this car in the 80s. I painted it glossy black (using my mom's nail polish), as a stand in for the Chrysler pace car used in The Wraith, and it was the badass of my imagination for years. Good meomries.

Are there any production cars with speakers in the seats?

Opening was like Baywatch..

"A threat to the all mighty pole polishing corvette oh hell no, fuck that nothing is allowed to touch the corvette" actual statement from a GM exec.

This is the future we need

The engineers of this car were well ahead of us . Look at that steering wheel , really? Amazing interior

this car was used in the nbc movie knight rider 2000... it aired in 1990 a lil while after the series had ended.... kit was transferred to this car called the knight 4000 after the 57 chevy michael knight put him in went to the bottom of the ocean....

Too bad Pontiac didn't have the balls to build this car, if they did, Pontiac might still be around building cars.

Where can I get the songs in this video by themselves?

Way ahead of its time. LOOKS SO CLEAN.

The only car with a Fraps FPS counter

I remember having a lot of hot wheels and matchbox toy cars that were prototypes that never went into production. This was one of them, along with the car Michael Jackson transforms into in Moonwalker. What I like about the Banshee is, besides the fact that the Firebird would end up looking somewhat like that someday, as well as the clear inspiration for te Nazca C2, the Banshee reminds me of the spaceship from Flight of the Navigator, one of my favorite movies as a kid.

I always loved this car. I still have it as the model kit I build as a kid.

The person or persons who designed this car undoubtedly had mullets.

Thanks for the personal memory. I remember seeing it at the Waldorf Astoria when GM held a Motorama like show featuring concept cars from all the divisions. It was stunning. Still is.

Just waiting for this to show up in a gran turismo game (with the same music as well)

God, I love retrofuturism.

Beautiful concept!!!

I have one it's kinda small though (hot wheels) lol

Wow! Would have been real cool. Could've had a more powerful LS engine if it was produced, but GM doesn't ever risk cannibalizing Corvette sales. The last generation of Firebirds used features from this concept.

1988?! I'd say that Concept Design Team derived a raise! If this Pontiac Banshee IV could become 95% delivered both style and tech, which of today's concept cars will we say the same about in 2048!!??

Amazing. Thumbs up

the future looks like it has a live rear axle. also, how and from where do US manufacturers manage to get leather that looks like it's made from recycled plastic shopping bags?

I remember seeing this thing in Hot Rod and other car magazines and wishing and praying that GM would make something like this. Harley Earl would have liked it.

I never knew about this concept. It's crazy how much from this then-futuristic and outrageous car is now standard. The HUD made it into the C5 Corvette as well as the Pontiac Grand Prix I believe it was. Display screen in place of gauges, rudimentary performance telemetry, memory seat position, there's a ton of features here that made it to production models.

I still have my Hot Wheels/Matchbox version of this car. It was always my favorite as a kid. The Banshee's design is still impressive to this day.

I always loved this car as a kid. I'm hoping to see it in person. Thank you for sharing this!

I got one, but it's a hot wheel 😁😁😎

Back in the days when this technology was innovative. Every vehicle is beyond Pontiac Banshee with better technological advances. Nice car back then!

Oh my god I LOVE the way it looks. Such a cool car!

I remember owning this Matchbox car!

MY GOD! I NEVER SAW THE INTERIOR OF THIS CAR.! ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.!!! JUST THINK, ALL THIS WAS AROUND *1989* ! THIS CAR WAS WELL OVER 2O YEARS AHEAD OF ITS TIME. IT HAD EVERY NEW FEATURE YOU FIND ON MODERN AUTOMOBILES! , EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM!,, AND NOT JUST REGULAR MODERN AUTOMOBILES ,, BUT TOP NOTCH SPORTS CARS OF TODAY.! IT LOOKS FAR BETTER THAN ANY NEW MODERN AUTOMOBILE.! THE ONLY CARS THAT LOOK THIS GOOD ARE THE *1993-1997 TRANS AM / CAMARO* , WHICH WERE DERIVED FROM THIS CONCEPT. ,, ,, AND THE *2014 CORVETTE STINGRAY*!. ... ( AND A FEW OTHER FOREIGN EXOTIC SUPERCARS.) GOOD LORD! THIS WAS INCREDIBLE.! ... ALL THAT SOPHISTICATED TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE WAY BACK THEN ,,, AND IT TOOK THEM OVER 2O YEARS TO PUT THOSE FEATURES IN CARS. IT HAD EVERYTHING.! IN FACT,, THAT *GPS NAVIGATION SYSTEM* IT HAD WAS *SUPERIOR* TO THESE MODERN *GPS NAVIGATION SYSTEMS*.,,, THESE MODERN ONES DO NOT WORK LIKE THE ONE THEY SHOWED. ,, THEY ARE NOT THAT ADVANCED!...... ..... THAT IS PROBABLY WHY THEY DID NOT GO THROUGH WITH THAT *NAVIGATION SYSTEM*,, IT WAS TOO ADVANCED! , *AND THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT WANT THE AVERAGE CITIZEN TO HAVE THAT KIND OF SUPERIOR ADVANTAGE.* AND FOR THE IDIOT FURTHER DOWN THERE , WHO THINKS THIS KIND OF TECHNOLOGY DID NOT EXIST BACK IN THE *80s*,,,,,, HA!! WHAT AN IDIOT!!..... ...THEY HAD *HIGH DEFINITION* TELEVISION TECHNOLOGY READY TO GO WAY BACK IN THE *80S* ,, BUT THEY JUST DID NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT FOR SOME STUPID STRANGE REASON UNTIL 15-20 YEARS LATER. AND THOSE *GODDAMN GLOBAL POSITIONING SATELLITES* HAVE BEEN UP THERE IN ORBIT SINCE THE *70S*. ,,, *GPS NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGY* HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG LONG TIME! ,,, ,,,SO THEY COULD HAVE PUT IT IN AUTOMOBILES WHEN THIS *PONTIAC CONCEPT CAME OUT* ,,,, ,,,BUT LIKE ALWAYS... IT TAKES THEM A LONG DAMN TIME TO DO ANYTHING!....

It's a little sad to think that the company that built "excitement" who brought us the GTO, SD455, '89 TTA, Fiero, Ram Air Formula and T/A and so many other cars such as the Bandit (SE) Trans Am is gone. This Banshee concept is proof of some of the talent that was in the Pontiac division

I remember seeing this car in a magazine back in the late 80s. According the the article it was originally intended to be the next generation of Firebird. Ironically when this concept failed they used this car in a Knight Rider tv movie called Knight Rider 2000 and Kitt's original Trans Am body was gone and they put his CPU in this. What I find interesting is how life imitates fiction. Many of the futuristic features in Kitt are now standard on many car designs today. Even the features of this concept car are standard today. Steering Wheel controls, heads up displays, GPS, diagnostics, rear view cameras, etc.

Great concept , minus the 4 liter V8 should have been a 6 Liter ....Love Pontiacs 😎

2nd song is "Think Original" by Andy Clark. Love that 80's synth music.

Saw the Banshee 1st hand at the KC Car Show when it was first rolled out as a concept car. Wanted one sooo badly. Even had the Hotwheel for a while. Probably still do packed away in my basement somewhere.

Anyone know where this was filmed? Looks like Lake Nona Country Club near Orlando.

I honestly laughed, when they called it a "road warrior", but then said it made 210 hp and 225 tq

I guess the car can fly with all those scenic shots

How are we supposed to get road head with that huge center console?

I actually got to see this car in person at my local pontiac dealer in the 90s. They had it on display for a few days it lookd amazing as a kid but now im not sure about that rear end lol

needs newer rims, and a better rear.. i love everything else.. of course the dash can be modernized as well.. definitely an 80's vision right here.

GPS for this wow so advanced for an old car. If only Pontiac came back wonder what theyd bring to inspire future

Had they actually gotten the Banshee for the Knight Rider 2000 movie and painted it black, and NOT said "Make a lookalike and keep it red." that tv movie may have actually been worth the watch.

This thing has a GPS WHEN GPS wasn't know as GPS and rearview camera WTF way ahead of it's time