a cool-looking, great-handling and smile-provoking convertible a few years back, I would have nodded my head in accordance, but internally disagreed. After all Pontiac is the brand that brought us ...

You could barely fit a sandwich back there. Gentile: OMG! Yes, the Pontiac Solstice and its cousin, the Saturn Sky, were useless – not only for trunk space, but interior cabin room, too.

And now we have a Pontiac Solstice, GXP. That means it has turbo direct injection, 270 horsepower, and 260 lb-ft of neck-snapping torque at 2,500 rpm. It’s a gorgeous, mean, rare little car.