It may be prophetic that among the brands GM chose to kill was the
Pontiac Firebird, a classic hot car of the 1960s sporting the fabled
Phoenix on its hood. In mythology, the Phoenix was a colorful bird that
incinerated itself in its nest, then rose from the ashes as its own
offspring. GM too, says Michael Moore, could be reborn as something
else. In a June 1 eulogy of sorts, he wrote:
