I'm sure some of you have seen this before, but I just came across it.
Enjoy!
http://autopedia.com/Ponti/97_BonneOpt.html
Also, I notice that Gold Firemist wasn't an option in 1997. So far I believe I've only seen 1998'* in Gold Firemist (the color of my 1998 SSE), and I've also seen a 2000 or 2001 SLE in Gold firemist.

That year only had one recall, which only affected 47 units. Something to do with the seats. According to the Nhsta. I think thats pretty good compared to other cars, even other bonnies.

looks like the 97 had all the bugs worked out from the 96 Similar to how the 93 were way better than the 92'*

What were the problems to be worked out from a 1996 model?

The ecm to pcm was not complete yet and thats why its hard to get any upgraded chips for the 95-96 model years. Those years are not really obd 1 or obd 2.

Oh is that all? I thought is something major.

Other than the intake problems which they did not fix ever...until the S3'* came out.

97 saw several thousand Bonnevilles ship without RF swaybar endlinks. Thousands of customers had to return to the dealer to have them installed.

1993.....

Make : PONTIAC Model : BONNEVILLE Year : 1993
Manufacturer : GENERAL MOTORS CORP.
NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID Number : 96V015000 Recall Date : JAN 19, 1996
Component: POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:COOLING UNIT AND LINES
Potential Number Of Units Affected : 585182

1997.....

Make : PONTIAC Model : BONNEVILLE Year : 1997
Manufacturer : GENERAL MOTORS CORP.
NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID Number : 96V196000 Recall Date : OCT 03, 1996
Component: SEATS
Potential Number Of Units Affected : 47

So, yea. Both were good years, just more infected for a 93' because it took GM so long to finally recall it.

They didn't make that many!