Would you buy this car?


What if I told you it was a Pontiac? Well it is. It's the Pontiac Solstice. I saw one the other day and I admit I did a doubletake. It was difficult to see what the manufacturer was but the icon on side looked strangely familiar. Turns out, it was grandma's car I was thinking of. Well, in looks, I'd give it a 9. They should fire the designer of the Aztec and hire more of this designer's friends. At a base price of $21,000 it looks very nice. Not sure how the rest of it shakes out. If they could only change the maker name...... We'll Saturn has a variant as well.

Why don't they get together and come up with a new, third brand (in the fashion of Scion)? That just might help sales. It would at least rid it of the stigma.













(Solstice interior photo courtesy of Brad Dougherty under Creative Commons License)

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