«Give General Motors credit for staying true to
the Solstice concept, the car GM product czar Bob Lutz ordered up 15 weeks before the 2002 Detroit show,» said AutoWeek senior news editor Bob Gritzinger.
«This low - slung production version takes
the Solstice concept to reality and passes our fun test in the process.»
Not exact matches
Von Holzhausen, who designed the Pontiac
Solstice and served as Mazda's North American design chief, turned to the Model X
concept sitting behind him.
The name on the
concept was «
Solstice,» and three years later it arrived in Pontiac showrooms looking very much like the sleek show car Mr. Lutz drove on stage in Detroit.
Though DaimlerChrysler insists that it's a
concept car, there's a good chance that the sales success of the Pontiac
Solstice and Saturn Sky is pushing the company toward producing a vehicle very much like its Dodge Demon, which will debut in the 77th International Motor Show in Geneva in March.
We got a peek at the Pontiac
Solstice GXP Coupe
concept at the New York Auto Show, but with the death of the Kappa platform basically a done deal we didn't think we'd see much more of it.
According to Pontiac, its G8 GXP Street, G8 ST and
Solstice GXP
concepts at the SEMA show «raise the performance bar even higher, taking style and sportiness to the highest levels».