General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson said today the company will listen to offers for the Wilmington, Del., plant that builds the Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice sports cars.
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.
Pontiac just now is launching a coupe version of the Solstice, but only around 1,000 are expected to be built before production ends when the Pontiac division dies.
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.
The plant also builds a low-volume version of the roadster for Europe called the Opel GT.
But those cars could live on if GM receives an acceptable offer for the plant, the vehicles and the production equipment.
I still think buying a coupe gxp in a year or two would make for a wise investment considering they will make less than 800 of them.
I saw a Mallet Solstice at a car show last weekend, maybe Mallet should buy the plant and start selling that in volume.
