Trunk Pictures, Trunk Volume
The famous "hump" (courtesy of GA73)...
The famous "hump" (courtesy of GA73)...
Autoweek:The full-manual process to stow it involves popping and lifting the rear-hinged lid, unlatching and collapsing the top, tucking it away and clicking the lid back down. You must do it from outside the car, but it's easy enough
Car and Driver:Before letting us slip in behind the wheel, the GM engineers folded down the mechanical top. The process starts by twisting a latch on the inside that releases the top from the header, and then opening the trunk in reverse fashion. There are a couple of wings at the rear of the top that fold inward, and then you're ready to fold the top down into the trunk. After the top is stowed, the trunk lid can be closed and the finished look is clean with no need for a boot.
The joy of other Solstice elements, however, remains to be seen. For example, the convertible top will need considerable work to make it a user-friendly device. It's distinguished by a flat-glass rear window and flying buttresses snugged down atop the teardrop fairings that extend behind the headrests and rollover bars, eventually blending down into the deck. Stowing the top entails some complicated folding before the whole business disappears beneath the rear-hinged decklid.
In the cutaway I posted above you can see the fuel tank. It's shaped exactly like the hump in the car.Rickady88GT said:None of the pics I have seen show the tank. The cut away pics show the muffler. It is behind the rear end not in the trunk. Look closer and you can see the exhaust pipe go into the muffler. Those pics show the entire exhaust system, not the gas tank.
We've had several discussions about this to try to discern of the Solstice does or not. If you look at any of the images of the Solstice there is absolutely nowhere for a window to come up out of on the body. If you see the images of the most recent almost production cars, there's no hint of a place for a window to rise up out of that would be weather proofed to stop water from getting in. There's really not even just a non-weather proof opening for a window as well. The Del-Sol has a window like that, but it rises up into a solid roof structure.bmwtourer said:Ok, lets say it ain't a hard top... :-(
It the spy shots (especially the 3rd one) do reveal the "true" top.
What do you think if the rear window would raise straight up like a door window. It would NOT be part of the top... The mechanism is simple proven and already available apart for the guides...
Bringing the rear window up would bend the top and might seal the window with the top...
This would explain the box behind the seat... it contains the window mechanism!
Just an idea...may be I should patent this!
Look at this picture, the gas cap door is closer to what Rickady88GT is talking about, I believe he is correct about the gas tank been behind the seats.Rickady88GT said:That is the gas tank. Or more accurately the tank is between the flat sheet and the bathtub. Just like on the C6. that cavity is a structural member that the plastic tank can be fitted into from underneeth. we dont have all the datta to see just how the fuel fill and vent lines will run but they sure cant run from the filler neck to the top of the tank if the tank were put in the center of the KAPPA trunk.If the tank is under the "cover" then there would be some realy creative venting going on in there.