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    Official: Tauro puts Spanish flavor, Corvette engine into Pontiac Solstice
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    While it may have had its fans, we have to say we don't much miss the roadster family which General Motors based on its Kappa platform. Sold alternately as the Pontiac Solstice, Saturn Sky, Opel GT and Daewoo G2X (depending largely on the market), the roadster as much about style as substance, ...

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    Finally Official: Pontiac is dead
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    2009 Pontiac Solstice Coupe GXP – Click above for high-res image gallery
    Pontiac has been dead for some time now, at least from a manufacturing point of view. The Vibe was the last vehicle to roll of a Pontiac assembly line, marking the end of new car production for the brand in August of ...

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    Self-proclaimed "irritant" Bob Lutz honored by GM
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    Bob Lutz is now officially into the swing of being retired. The former General Motors Vice Chairman has been living the life of leisure since the end of April, but the company he helped steer through Chapter 11 took some time to honor the living automotive legend in a number of receptions held ...

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    Officially Official: Fisker buys GM's Wilmington Delaware plant
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    In Wilmington, Delaware this morning, Governor Jack Markell was joined by Vice President Joe Biden and Henrik Fisker (seen at right) for the official announcement about the purchase of General Motors' closed plant there. Fisker will re-tool the plant to build a new, more affordable plug-in hybrid ...

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    Rumormill: DeLorean Motor Company considering rescuing Pontiac Solstice?
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    DeLorean Motor Company Pontiac Solstice renderings – Click above for high-res image gallery
    General Motors has made a science out of sharing platforms. So when the company's Kappa platform was introduced for a new rear-drive roadster to be distributed across three different motor divisions, ...

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    REPORT: The Sky has a limit after all, as GM Kappa production ends
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    Pontiac Solstice GXP - Click above for high-res image gallery
    Old saying: The flame that burns twice as bright burns only half as long. Having driven our share of Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky roadsters, we can't honestly declare them to be brightly burning flames. Oh, they have their good ...

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    2009 Pontiac Solstice GXP Coupe: Great moments in cupholder history
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    2009 Pontiac Solstice GXP Coupe's weird cupholders – Click above for high-res image gallery
    If you've ever driven a Pontiac Solstice, you know that it's a very pretty but extremely flawed car. In the interest of getting the concept car's look exactly right in production form, GM had to make ...

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    Review: Pontiac Solstice GXP Coupe goes quick, just don't look back
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    2009 Pontiac Solstice GXP Coupe - Click above for high-res image gallery
    Climb into the Pontiac Solstice Coupe and there's an unsettling feeling of familiarity. We've been here before. And after driving off, it all begins to gel, although it has nothing to do with our previous stints in the ...

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    Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky could live on... with different parents
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    Pontiac Solstice Coupe - Click above for a high-res image gallery
    General Motors' acting CEO Fritz Henderson has said the Wilmington, DE plant that currently produces the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky could be sold if a buyer was interested in producing the two roadsters. "If someone were to ...

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    Rendered speculation: Chevrolet Sky-Volt?
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    One of the many unfortunate casualties of General Motors' financial apocalypse is the loss of the Kappa platform, the small, rear-wheel drive architecture underpinning the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky. With both of those brands being discontinued and no plans to migrate any models over to GM's ...

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