I don't understand how people can cop an attitude toward the Solstice. I'll be sitting at the stoplight in the Pontiac minding my own business when a bully of an F-150 driver in the next lane guns his engine, powers ahead and jumps right in front of me. "I think you think I'm faster than I am," I want to laugh at the truck driver. But where I couldn't catch up to the truck with the roadster's four-cylinder power (obviously), I easily danced around the monster in the curves, ha...
But it is funny how passers-by at the curb and those sitting next to me at a stoplight when I'm in the Solstice often mistake the roadster's dangerous curves for a sign of quickness.
Caroline Pardilla, Production Editor
scott65 says:
09:17 PM, 08/29/06
See also:
Mazda Miata
Porsche Boxster
Audi TT
carlisimo says:
01:06 AM, 08/30/06
Heck, lots of 'sport' versions of economy cars get beaten in a straight line by minivans. Doesn't make the minivans sportier, it's just the reality of cars in different segments.
I don't know why anyone would feel challenged by the Solstice's presence.
rennf says:
07:24 AM, 08/30/06
For normal everyday driving I'm fairly light on the acceleration, despite the fact that my car can do 0-60 in the high sixes when it wants to. I must admit it's a weird sensation to get "beat" off the line by a minivan but it's happened to me several times. I'm not sure if they're actually trying to race (car envy?) or just being a leadfoot.
jerrywimer says:
05:49 AM, 08/31/06
Well, strictly speaking based on my significant other's driving style, it's probably the latter. There are lots of people out there that drive as if they simply *must* get wherever they're going as quick as they possibly can. And that means faster takeoffs and higher overall speaks, cutting in front of traffic as close as possible to your exits on interstates, etc. I'm sure it's not because you're in a small car that the F-150 raced up front of you so much as the need to get ahead of every single other vehicle possible before the turn they needed, just in case any of those others might be going the same way and possibly slow them down by 2 seconds.
(My wife doesn't do the cut in front thing, but she likes driving fast everywhere and taking off with a LOT of throttle)
caroscuro says:
12:23 PM, 08/31/06
Actually, Jerrywimer, that F-150 didn't turn anywhere or jump in front of anyone else. Just kept going straight, just right in front of me...until I passed him in the curvy parts, that is. And truth be said, I usually do like jumping off the line, too, but I wouldn't have any part of that F-150. He was just trouble, I can tell.