If they bought the factory (which they’d have to, if they wanted to keep selling the model), then that factory would be a Daewoo factory… and Daewoo is, of course, owned by GM.

Are you sure it’s getting built? Is there a market for it? And most important: Can BuickToyota market it?

Seth L:
I’ll beleive it when I see it.

+1.

I’ll beleive it when I see it.

“The Solstice and Sky have been America’s top-selling budget sports cars — outselling the Mazda Miata on a combined basis — every year they’ve been on the market since 2007.

In 2008, Pontiac sold 10,739 Solstices while Saturn sold 9,162 Sky roadsters. Mazda sold 10,977 Miatas. Those figures were down from 2007 when GM sold 16,779 Solstices and 11,263 Saturn Skys while Mazda sold 15,075 Miatas.”

Instead, I got a used S2000.

So yes, the top does count.

That said, the real problem with these cars is that they’re supposedly big time money losers. I’m not seeing that improving as a stand alone business. So, no sale.

As to the coming onslaught of Japanese sport coupes threatening future Camaro sales…um, no. Like all style machines, sales of the Camaro will decline as the month it was the flavor of fades away. But no-one’s cross-shopping a Z28 and a CR-Z.

Concerning the Solstice and Sky, gee whiz they are pretty. But NO luggage space? None? C’mon. Who suposed to buy them? Even the Miata has a trunk! was no one watching the store the day that was thought up? its a tragedy. If there was even a Miata sized trunk, id have coupe NOW.

I think GM heard there was an “x-prise” for the “Worst designed no-British convertible top since WWII”.
The tragi-comic insanity has been continued with the targa you can’t carry in the car on the coupe.

Sad.

Bunter

“The first exec who tried to put the top down should have screamed bloody murder.”

In theory that should have been Bob Lutz, or somebody who reported to him. Where’s Maximum Bob now? he took the money and ran.

–chuck

The Z, the Miata, the S2000, all pass.

The solstice and sky crash and burn.

The Nomad could have been a hit and given them an early advantage against the onslaught of small sports cars. Instead they made the Solstice, which was never meant to be anything more than a toy. Cripes, GM, even the Miata has a functional trunk.

The Miata is often no more than a weekend toy too, but the added practicality of the car makes it more appealing.

I wouldn’t kid myself with the possiblity of a Nomad being a hit, beyond people fawning over it at an auto show, or buff books and blogs talking about how great it is.

A good car won’t sell if it a strong marketing campaign, which is not GM’s (or their ad agencies’) strong suits, doesn’t follow up with the release of the car. That strategy let Nissan breathe life into an entire brand on the shoulders of an impractical RWD sports car in 2002.

GM’s missed a chance to do the same with the GTO, G8, Sky and Soulstice. They’re missing the boat on doing the same with the Camaro, too.

Who would buy this, especially now, when they could just get it cheap at auction.

The first exec who tried to put the top down should have screamed bloody murder.

That the top & trunk was NEVER fixed, when it was clearly a disaster from day 1, shows how GM jsut doesn’t care.