 It was marketed on the appeal of the Pontiac name being "American" despite the car's origins and place of manufacture.The model was sold in its final year of production in Australia as the Daewoo 1.5i.Following the bankruptcy of Daewoo and subsequent purchase of the company by General Motors at the end of 2002, Holden began selling Daewoo cars in Australia and New Zealand in 2003, specifically the Daewoo Kalos and the Daewoo Lacetti, but sales were poor in both countries prompting Holden Australia to announce on July 1, 2004 they were stopping sales of Daewoo there with New Zealand following suit.