Pontiac Soltice Targa

clinehall · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:37 pm

Marty is falling down on the job. Somebody find something about the new Soltice targa and post it. Looks pretty good from what little I have seen

Donna Frank · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:20 pm

A few things...

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/07/new- ... ay-appear/

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2008/03/ny ... coupe.html

http://www.leftlanenews.com/pontiac-solstice-coupe.html

Matthew Fortner · **Joined:** Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:21 am **Posts:** 384

RSS is your friend.

Arthur McDonald · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 1:54 am **Posts:** 2052

Heaven help me, but I kind of like it, at least with the hard roof panel in. Sort of a cross between a Superformance Daytona Coupe and Z4 Coupe.

Donnie Barnes · **Posted:** Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:29 am

Arthur McDonald wrote:

Heaven help me, but I kind of like it, at least with the hard roof panel in. Sort of a cross between a Superformance Daytona Coupe and Z4 Coupe.

Heaven help you, indeed. You just named two of the uglier cars ever made, IMHO, and this one will join them.

Sure, it's all about taste, so to each his/her own. Color me unimpressed. But then again, I don't care for what they started with on this one, either.

--Donnie

Aaron Buckley · **Posted:** Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:23 am

I'm kind of surprised they're doing this. At the local dealership here, there has to be 8-10 Solstice's on the lot and they've been the same ones for about 5 months. - AB

Donna Frank · **Posted:** Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:05 am

As soon as the "nice" ( now if it would just stay) March weather hit, we started moving the Solstices. They had pretty much sat unnoticed during the cold months. They tell me that's typical...makes sense. The G6 convertables did the same thing. I think we have three models left now and one G6 convertable.

Ryan Storzbach · **Posted:** Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:48 am

I like it

Richard Casto · **Posted:** Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:50 pm

I think it looks fine. It does have a bit of a "Crossfire" look to it from the rear.

Wes Eargle · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:47 am **Posts:** 3683

Let's make a hardtop that weighs more than the softtop. Brilliant!

Donnie Barnes · **Posted:** Sun Mar 30, 2008 3:46 pm

Wes Eargle wrote:

Let's make a hardtop that weighs more than the softtop. Brilliant!

That's pretty standard when companies take a car that was originally a roadster and make it a hardtop. We're used to hardtop cars weighing less than convertibles because it used to be that a company took a hardtop car and turned it into a convertible, which required adding weight to stiffen the car because of a loss of rigidity when you remove the top. I don't know of a single case where a car company took a roadster chassis and added a hard top and lost weight. Even the Porsche Boxster turned Cayman got heavier.

--Donnie

MarcusMcRae · **Posted:** Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:08 pm

Donnie Barnes wrote:

Arthur McDonald wrote:

Heaven help me, but I kind of like it, at least with the hard roof panel in. Sort of a cross between a Superformance Daytona Coupe and Z4 Coupe.

Heaven help you, indeed. You just named two of the uglier cars ever made, IMHO, and this one will join them.

Sure, it's all about taste, so to each his/her own. Color me unimpressed. But then again, I don't care for what they started with on this one, either.

--Donnie

The Z4 M Coupe is ugly, but I still want one for some reason. Maybe Pontiac has found that magical look?

They couldn't give it a useable trunk despite loosing the gear for the convertible??

Aaron Buckley · **Posted:** Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:50 pm

MarcusMcRae wrote:

The Z4 M Coupe is ugly, but I still want one for some reason. Maybe Pontiac has found that magical look?

They couldn't give it a useable trunk despite loosing the gear for the convertible??

The M coupe (Z4) is very hot. When TC Kline showed up with one marginally prepared for SM2, but painted in Chevrolet orange, I fell in love

To say it was beautiful was an understatement. There is no Solstice that could hold a candle to it

- AB

Arthur McDonald · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 1:54 am **Posts:** 2052

MarcusMcRae wrote:

The Z4 M Coupe is ugly, but I still want one for some reason.

I think it's the whole 1950's & 60's long hood/short deck styling thing. It's pretty well burned into my conciousness. Not that I have to explain the appeal of these cars (I hope), but here are some examples of the look:

Ferrari 340/375 berlinetta: http://www.alaskaseaplanes.com/Ferrari.html
Ferrari 250 GT SWB berlinetta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrqHFrt3 ... re=related
Ferrari 250 GTO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFfx6kdiNyM
Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona coupe: http://www.qv500.com/ferraridaytonap1.php
Jaguar E-Type Coupe: http://www.sportscarmarket.com/Affordab ... /November/
Shelby Daytona Coupe: http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/pic.php? ... 5&carnum=2

MarcusMcRae · **Posted:** Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:20 pm

Aaron Buckley wrote:

MarcusMcRae wrote:

The Z4 M Coupe is ugly, but I still want one for some reason. Maybe Pontiac has found that magical look?

They couldn't give it a useable trunk despite loosing the gear for the convertible??

The M coupe (Z4) is very hot. When TC Kline showed up with one marginally prepared for SM2, but painted in Chevrolet orange, I fell in love

To say it was beautiful was an understatement. There is no Solstice that could hold a candle to it

- AB

Ah yes, the carbon coupe. Very nice.

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