Sticking with the Solstice. From what I've seen of the Sky, I think the Solstice looks way better and much more unique. The Sky seems kind of generic to me. It's styling isn't bad, it just looks like it could have come from Toyota, Mazda, VW or Honda. Nothing stand out about it. No mistaking a Solstice.
This poll illustrates what a stupid idea it is for GM to offer the Sky at the same price point as the Solstice. Before the Sky announcement, there was a pretty good group of people here pretty sure that they would get a Solstice. Now many aren't so sure or are going to change to Sky. Taking the same limited pool of roadster buyers and dividing them in half is very inefficient. Sure, they may sell just as many Kappas, but at a reduced effeciency due to the differeing parts of each model, and let's face it, any company can only sell so many roadsters. It's not a huge market.
The Camero/Firebird annalogy doesn't apply here simply because the proposed Kappas are small, don't have back seats, roofs or V8 engines. This greatly limits thier sales appeal to North American buyers. The final specs on the Sky are not known, so it could still be that it is in a higher price range and that it might come with a more competent engine, drive train, and interior appointments to better compete with roadsters in that range so as to steal sales from manufacturers outside of GM. My guess is that it will probably just be sort of a Firebird, a Solstice with different sheetmetal.
Anyhow, they'll do what they'll do, and probably loose some money too. They're good at that. Whatever, I'm getting a Solstice, I love that car. :cheers