That is surprising!

 

Says the person that has a car that is also dead from a company that has lost its footing in the auto world. There are several articles out there right now asking if Honda has lost its way in producing automobiles.

 

someone post the picture of the soltice that flipped over and crushed the windshield frame.... i know i saw it on this forum before.

Safety > all else

 

If you truly believe that, you shouldn't buy a convertible of any kind.

 

Honestly, it's really only the poorly designed convertible-ness of the car that is a deal breaker.

 

Honestly, I've never seen an S2000 frame cave in like that Pontiac's did. I think there is some merit in questioning just how good the rollover protection is on the Solstice - maybe its up to standards and the S2000 is just well above standards so it looks bad in comparison.

 

The older Miatas are guilt of the same lack of rollover protection. I will never own a convertible without a rollbar and for the short period of time that I drove my Miata sans rollbar, I was puckering my butthole around every corner. Ok, maybe it's not that bad but you get the idea.

 

Another gripe I have with the car, and it's admittedly a dumb one, no projectors or HIDs in the headlights, except for the sky. They should've at least offered it as an option.

But alot of the shortcomings were fixed in the coupes, the trunk went from horrible to bad, roll over protection seems to have been solved, and no top issues (well except that you can't store the hardtop in the trunk, but they do offer a tent as a solution). And how many people here wished that honda made a coupe version of the s2000?
But in the end it;s the same thing, different strokes for different folks, some people like paying more to get a more premium feel to their cars, others try to get the most bang for their buck.
Me, the s2000 was great fun, but I'm not a vert guy, never saw the track, and probably wouldn't have tracked it enough to deal with the rev happy, low end torqueless, more raw driving experience of the S on a daily basis. I'm frugal by nature as I feel there are more important things to put my money in and don't pose to be rich, but I appreciate engineering and quality in regards to durability. In this the solstice coupe strikes the right chord with me and so did the s2000. I have very little tolerance for unreliable or unnecessarily expensive to repair cars, don't care how special the car is.
I'm glad that the mainstream drivers don't like it because thats whats hurting the resale values, and that's what I was hoping for; that GM would make a plethora of coupes and I would be able to get one on the cheap soon... plan foiled but I'm still waiting, lol.
I still havn't shook the possibility of owning another s2000 though, perhaps an AP2 this time around, great cars, but I just love the look of the coupe and I could live with the interior. Personally, I prefer the styling of the solstice interior over the s2000, but I prefer the materials obviously of the honda.
Anyway, I'm researching the cars to see how durable they are over time.

 

My friend and I took the factory tour, we had this extra cool tour guide that more of less went a bit rogue and took us onto the assembly line itself (as in we were literally walking between the cars and the workers on the line).

Anyway, they started manufacturing the coupes not too long before our tour and said they had finished about 500 of them (many of the cars on the line that day were coupes). Estimates I've read say that by the time the factory closed down, probably around 1500 units had been produced. Numbers for GXPs with a stick, who knows.

 

It'll probably be more collectible than the S2000.

Flame suit on.