My question was not answered in the first 35 pages of the Solstice Book. It is always just referred to as "Solstice". This is why I asked the question.I'd have to check my Solstice Book....if I could only find it!
According to an April 2002 article in Popular Science , Bob Lutz decided to place his new sportster concept car under the Pontiac banner. It was indeed Pontiac which came up with the name, apparently sometime in late September of 2001.
Good Job hunting there Mr. KKadet, I suspect that is as close to an answer as is out there.Popular Science said:Naming the car was another challenge. Pontiac, which had just painfully announced that 2002 would be the last year of its 1960s-era muscle car, the Firebird, desperately needed a lift. So Lutz put the new concept car under Pontiac's imprint. None of the designers or engineers was particularly cheered when Pontiac proposed the name Solstice, but it stuck after more evocative suggestions failed legal department scrutiny.
Yeah, at least the dreamers at Pontiac didn't call it a SPARKIMHO they hit it big with the name Solstice!
I think it's much simpler than folks realize. It's a Summer car, and June 21st has the most amount of daylight for the northern hemisphere. So, being that it's a North American, convertible car. The best possible time to drive it would be June 21st as you'll have the most daylight with warm temperatures to enjoy it.The answer is simple, the concept car was called Solstice and Pontiac decided to keep the name when they put it into production.
So why was the concept called Solstice?
I like the simple theories, but there is the winter Solstice too of course, in fact that's when I picked my baby up a few years ago. Also longer days in summer apply to the southern hemisphere as well as northern (their winter = our summer).I think it's much simpler than folks realize. It's a Summer car, and June 21st has the most amount of daylight for the northern hemisphere. So, being that it's a North American, convertible car. The best possible time to drive it would be June 21st as you'll have the most daylight with warm temperatures to enjoy it.