Pontiac Solstice News Archives

Vice President Joe Biden, known for repeated instances of foot-in-mouth disease, unwittingly spilled the beans on Fisker Automotive's plan for a Delaware-built, three-vehicle family of plug-in hybrids .

There's nothing like a little old-fashioned reporter shoe leather, especially when few other automotive media outlets bother to make the trip.

With all the pomp and circumstance that surrounds any big economic news, Fisker Automotive of Irvine, CA announced an agreement yesterday to purchase GM's former Wilmington, DE plant where it plans to produce low-end and mid-range hybrids by 2012.

Don't Get No Respect - "It surprised me that being a start-up founder does not get you more admiration from women." That's one response to the question, "What surprised you the most about starting a company?" asked by Paul Graham, the co-founder of seed investor Y Combinator.

Let's face it. Everybody in the Pontiac hobby wants to see a remake of Smokey and The Bandit ! But, who could star in it.

Fisker Automotive, a California-based startup manufacturer of luxury electric vehicles, plans to build plug-in electric cars at a former General Motors assembly plant in Delaware, people with knowledge of the situation said Friday.

Fisker Automotive plans to build a plug-in hybrid car at the empty Boxwood Road plant near Newport, a decision that will give Delaware a prominent role in a government-backed reshaping of the American auto industry.

Now reported widely around the web, Fisker Automotive seems to be near a deal to acquire General Motor's Boxwood Road assembly plant in Wilmington, DE, where GM produced the Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice.

Henrik Fisker, the company's co-founder and chief executive, said Tuesday that an announcement about the location of a manufacturing facility was in the works.

Fisker Automotive plans to build a plug-in hybrid car at the empty Boxwood Road plant near Newport, a decision that will give Delaware a prominent role in a government-backed reshaping of the American auto industry.

Two electric car startups, Fisker Automotive Inc. and Reva Electric Car Co., both affiliated with well-known Silicon Valley venture capital firms, are close to announcing production facilities.

Spending on customer incentives like low-interest financing and rebates soared in October among auto manufacturers, according to the auto research Web site Edmunds.com, as carmakers seek to clear out old inventory that piled up after the Cash for Clunkers program ended.

Dr. David Wolfe s 1970 Opel GT was the first car he ever owned. When Dr. David Wolfe of London, Ont., was a graduate student at the University of South Florida in 1975, he had never owned a car and got around campus on a bicycle.

The Mazda MX-5 Miata remains an iconic and enjoyable drive. Mazda MOTORSPORTS EDITOR MAC MORRISON: A timeless top-down roadster to be sure, but with each passing year the Mia .

Originally this car started life as a 1967 Tempest Station Wagon. Over the last 6 years of ownership, I've transformed it into what I envision Pontiac may have built, had they ever offered a GTO wagon.

Submitted by Bill Bortzfield on Fri, 10/09/2009 - 06:56. Imagine a car that prompts you to get a cup of coffee or starts applying the brakes if you don't. The redesigned 2010 Mercedes-Benz E350 is packed with high tech safety features such as intelligent cruise-control, night vision and automatic headline range adjustments.

So when the company's Kappa platform was introduced for a new rear-drive roadster to be distributed across three different motor divisions, you'd have figured the program was pretty safe, right? Unfortunately for the workers at the Wilmington Assembly Plant which manufactured the Kappa roadsters, those three divisions were Pontiac, Saturn and Opel ...

Fans of the Pontiac Solstice, get ready to cast aside your mourning garments, as the sporty little roadster/coupe could yet live on under the auspices of the DeLorean Motor Company.

'78 Pontiac FireBird, powered by original 305 that is stock except for the carb and intake and Summit chrome valve covers.The trans is the stock turbo 350 w/shift kit, and the rear is the factory GM 10 bolt w/3:23 gears, wheels are CenterLine Convo Pro, and the interior is original except for the Hurst Dual-Gate shifter, it still has the original ...

Friday, October 02, 2009 at 3:32 p.m. The 46th annual Northwood University International Auto Show kicks off in Midland.