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> OT: Quick post of the new Ponco Solstice, Miata move over babe!
rick 918-S
post Mar 27 2006, 03:52 PM
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177 hp verio valve timing, 4 cylinder. And yes, I'm sure I could fit a V8 in it! Oh! BTW around 2800lbs. W/ driver and passenger air bags, sensors in the passanger seat to gauge air bag depolyment speed and force. power windows remote locks, 6 disc CD, etc.


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post Mar 27 2006, 03:53 PM
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How do you like the targa bar look?


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post Mar 27 2006, 03:54 PM
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This car is small like the Miata. Wider track than a Z3 roadster.


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post Mar 27 2006, 03:54 PM
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Hood flips forward.


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post Mar 27 2006, 03:55 PM
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Lots of room under the hood! Chassis is aluminized!


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post Mar 27 2006, 04:04 PM
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Did you drive it home?
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post Mar 27 2006, 04:07 PM
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(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wub.gif) I really like black the best. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smilie_pokal.gif)
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post Mar 27 2006, 04:10 PM
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Rick,

one of the magazines has a tuner version with the V-8 already installed and sold as a turn key.

It might be lighfinger (sp) or at least some tuner company that is well known.

I think they used the 400hp corvette motor!


hey I know ponco means pontiac, but could you explain the origin of that slang word for me? (sorry for my ignorance)

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post Mar 27 2006, 04:21 PM
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QUOTE (brant @ Mar 27 2006, 02:10 PM)
Rick,

one of the magazines has a tuner version with the V-8 already installed and sold as a turn key.

It might be lighfinger (sp) or at least some tuner company that is well known.

I think they used the 400hp corvette motor!


hey I know ponco means pontiac, but could you explain the origin of that slang word for me?  (sorry for my ignorance)

brant

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post Mar 27 2006, 04:29 PM
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www.malletcars.com is the tuner. $25K car + 20K conversion = 400hp ala sunbeam tiger.
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post Mar 27 2006, 04:39 PM
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QUOTE (Ferg @ Mar 27 2006, 02:21 PM)
QUOTE (brant @ Mar 27 2006, 02:10 PM)
Rick,

one of the magazines has a tuner version with the V-8 already installed and sold as a turn key.

It might be lighfinger (sp) or at least some tuner company that is well known.

I think they used the 400hp corvette motor!


hey I know ponco means pontiac, but could you explain the origin of that slang word for me?  (sorry for my ignorance)

brant

Pic of above mentioned car, yummy (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wub.gif) brant's right 400hp vette motor (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/driving.gif)

Hey, if you listen to the guys here since it's water cooled, not mid engined, and not a Porsche, it's a POS. While you're throwing it out of your garage, would ya kinda nudge it this way?

BTW, that is the fugliest convertible top ever. Quick, someone design a HT.
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post Mar 27 2006, 04:39 PM
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Nice car, checked one out Friday last week. Only problem Zero trunk space. Yes its a sports car, but a hard sell to the wife when you can't put anthing bigger than her purse in the trunk and that is with the top up, nothing fits in back with the top down. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/dry.gif) My only real complaint
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post Mar 27 2006, 10:26 PM
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I hate that car for 2 reasons.

1) I dont fit. The car may be great if you need a step stool to reach whats on top of the freezer... but not for me.

2) The dash is quite possibly the ugliest plastic hunks of fuck i've ever seen.
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post Mar 27 2006, 10:36 PM
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Pontiac is famous for fugly dashes... let me guess... pimpin' red lights in the dash as well?
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post Mar 27 2006, 10:46 PM
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A plastic hunk of fuck? Ahhh kids these days. College student. Uh huh. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wacko.gif)

Cheers, Elliot
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post Mar 27 2006, 10:51 PM
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QUOTE (Elliot Cannon @ Mar 27 2006, 08:46 PM)
A plastic hunk of fuck? Ahhh kids these days. College student. Uh huh. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wacko.gif)

Cheers, Elliot

They're engineering students, not English majors (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/beer.gif)
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post Mar 27 2006, 10:54 PM
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QUOTE (Elliot Cannon @ Mar 27 2006, 08:46 PM)
A plastic hunk of fuck?  Ahhh kids these days.   College student.  Uh huh. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wacko.gif)

                  Cheers,   Elliot

They're engineering students, not English majors (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/beer.gif)

Hey, I learned that one hanging out with mechanics. My first day on the job, I asked the head tech what he thought of 914s. He said "i wouldnt touch one of those hunks of fuck"

its just stuck. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)
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post Mar 28 2006, 12:41 AM
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hot rod magazine and gm built one with a z06 500hp cts rear end. and all factory off the shelf
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post Mar 28 2006, 04:05 AM
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The May issue of Sports Car International has done a road test of the Solstice and they couldn't hate it enough....poor quality control,pieces falling off etc.....cheap components etc....no storage room etc....Noisy rough engine... To bad because it is a great looking car aside from the ugly and ill fitting rear section of the top when up.
GM needs a winner in the worst way and this isn't it,just another chick car and not a very good one at that.
Sorry about the chick car reference in advance
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post Mar 28 2006, 05:42 AM
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Typical Pontiac/GM. Funky styling, about 10 years behind the ball, shotty build quality, and poor resale.

They'll probably stick an LS2 in it and then kill it. Can you say Fiero, 96 Impala SS, etc?

I'd pull for GM since I believe in American companies, but they're killing me with their designs and UAW woes.

It's a neat idea though... But, I'd rather have a Miata.

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