Solstice Plant Sold

jikelly · Nov 5, 2009

I really liked the Pontiac Solstice and was sad to see GM close its plant. It was nice to have an American built roadster while it lasted though.

Anyway...

Fisker Automotive has announced plans to buy GM's redundant Pontiac Solstice plant in Wilmington, Delaware - the same plant that was being mooted to produce a new DeLorean.

The plant will now be used to develop Fisker's plug-in hybrid family saloon 'Project NINA', and was bought using part of a $528.7m USD loan from the US government.

The factory is currently still tooled up for producing the Pontiac Solstice/Saturn Sky, but the purchase by Fisker presumably nails the coffin lid down on DMC's plans to revive the DeLorean name - which though improbable, did get as far as an intriguing rendering of a Solstice-based new model.

The deal also has implications for Chevrolet Volt, which Project NINA is designed to rival in the emerging plug-in hybrid sector. There is a certain irony in the sale of a GM factory to a private company planning to use it to develop a direct rival to one of GM's key future products - but hey, that's liquidation for you.

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Solstice Plant Sold

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