Archive for the ‘Solstice’ Category

This is one thought that hatched over the past long weekend. When you combine the effects of the bad economy with actions of embattled manufacturers along with the Fed's new CAFE standards, what does this mean for enthusiasts or wannabe enthusiasts who have been considering a new vehicle purchase? My mind came up with "Instant Classics."

Today's Instant Classics are those cars that warrant an enthusiast's attention based on style and performance. In other words, these vehicles have earned your attention. But what makes these vehicles rise to the top of one's consideration list is the fact that they are most certainly doomed to a near-term...

General Motors is willing to sell off the Delaware factory that builds the Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice as it hurtles toward a May 31 collision with bankruptcy court and federal overseers.

In a press conference this morning, GM's CEO Fritz Henderson said the twin roadsters plus the assembly plant in Wilmington, Del., could be parceled out to an interested buyer, if one could be found. Chrysler is trying the same approach with its Mack Avenue plant in Detroit and the Dodge Viper--but so far, no interested buyers have surfaced.

GM is looking at any and all scenarios to devolve brands and unprofitable businesses as it runs up against a June...

While Pontiac fades into history--and takes with it most of the 5 vehicles that killed it--TheCarConnection.com is taking a moment to reflect on why Pontiac made sense at General Motors for a very long time, and why it no longer matters today.

The 83-year-old brand began as Oakland in 1909. GM acquired it and issued the first Pontiacs in 1926, but the brand really earned its modern reputation in the early 1960s, when wide-track cars and big V-8s transformed its mundane offerings into domestic exotica like the 1964 GTO.

Pontiac rolled through the Sixties and Seventies as one of America's most popular car brands on the strength of cars like...