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Pontiac Solstice Coupe

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We’ll have to wait almost a year to see this sin the street. It will be a very early 2010 model.

-Same engines as the convertible.
-Choice of hard or soft targa top.
-No place to store the hard top.
-Larger trunk than the convertible

I thin it looks great. But the soft top looks pretty dorky. The hard top looks perfect but there is no room inside the car to store it (!). And it should be glass, at least as an option, like on the Corvette.

With only 10 000 units a year planed, they will sell out, I’m sure. I just wished they made it a little more practical.
How are you supposed to go anywhere for a nice week end without the hard top part???

Conversation 17 comments

  1. Looks fantastic just like an unreliable weekend toy should. One of the best looking pieces of sh*t on the road in years.

    And no place to store the top? LOL! Way to go, GM brainiacs.

  3. For esthetics the trunk does look nice, but otherwise it lacks depth and accommodation for anything larger
    than a tackle box. Maybe someone should have taken out a fish hook inserted one in Lutz’s nose for being dump enough to approve this. Also Burlap should take out a fishing hook and do the same to Lutz
    since the targa is way to big for storage.

  4. Awesome track car. Should be loads of fun. I believe the hard top will be std and since you can’t store it, the soft top was developed to fold up and store in the back. Not sure if the soft top will be std or optional.

  5. Vince … where are you going to go for the weekend when you can’t even fit 2 bags in that trunk ?? Unless you are travelling by yourself and put everything in the passenger seat !! I sat in the convertable version again at the auto show and I still can’t believe how cheap the interior is on this car, GM should look at the interiors of Hyundai maybe they will learn something. The best car in this segment is the still the Miata and you can get it with a folding hardtop and you still have a bigger trunk than this POS.

  8. I agree about the Miata.
    You can get a hardtop convertible with a full truck, all in a good looking a reliable package.

  9. I believe your comment about not being able to store the top is incorrect. Check out this quote from Edmunds “The panel can be stored in the cargo area, which is accessible through the rear liftglass. It only weighs 31 pounds, so it’s only a one-person job.
    “

  11. I hear people whining about the lack of trunk space under the lifting glass hatch. But notice the cutlines extending from the top of the rear lights, and what looks to be a cutline right below the badges on the rear end (above the rear license plate holder). While the pictures may not show it, I think the trunk will prove to be way larger than we think.

  12. I hear people whining about the lack of trunk space under the lifting glass hatch. But notice the cutlines extending from the top of the rear lights, and what looks to be a cutline right below the badges on the rear end (above the rear license plate holder). While the pictures may not show it, I think the trunk will prove to be way larger than we think.

    I don’t know how you ‘hear’ typed words, but, honey, don’t you see the pictures of the hatch open? And how would the size of the opening make the trunk larger?

  13. is it too late to cancel this runt. wow is that hideous and it will sell and be as well built as a fiero, remember those, are there any on the road still?

  14. If you are over 5 foot 10, your head hits the rear roofline. Gm is really a builder of scrap, I can’t belive anyone even walks near those stores. Underengineered, and overpriced with little to no resale value.

  15. Leave it to GM to screw up even this car; instead of making a straight coupe with a fixed hardtop, they have to go with this sure-to-leak, wind-buffeting targa top that can’t even stow aboard. They already make a convertible after all… and I see in R & T where the curb weight is actually UP a couple pounds over the convertible lol

  16. If you are over 5 foot 10, your head hits the rear roofline. Gm is really a builder of scrap, I can’t belive anyone even walks near those stores. Underengineered, and overpriced with little to no resale value.

    I tried to test drive one when they first came out. I’m 6′-4″ and my legs are too long to operate the clutch without jamming into the steering wheel. The salesman and I never made it out of the parking lot.

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