GM’s scores on both initial and long term quality studies have been steadily climbing the last few years, and now rival some of the top makes in the industry.
The Solstice is an all new from the ground up design, employing GM’s latest design, engineering, and assembly technology and procedures.
GM has been delaying the start of production of the car, over a month now, just so they can be sure they have all the potential bugs and trouble spots worked out before starting production and putting cars on the streets. This despite the fact they had a chance to have these cars on the roads by the start of summer (two days ago) and trump the introduction of the NC MX-5 Miata by a couple months.
In other words, I think this car will be one of GM’s best yet.
Of course, on any new model, there will be some bugs and glitches that come out once a large number of cars are in the publics hands. No amount of testing will catch everything. So those concerned may want to wait a year (same goes for the Miata). Otherwise, I would have no fear buying it.
GM did earn itself a poor reputation for reliability and quality in the past, but they have also done a lot to turn themselves around. Go check one out for yourself and decide on your own. Don’t just buy into the anti GM mentality from someone who owned a bad GM car 10 years ago, or someone online (or a magazine writer) who won’t give GM credit no matter what.
