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First Thousand Pontiac Solstices Ordered in Minutes
Friday April 15, 6:20 pm ET
- Exclusive First Orders Received from Customers in 47 States

DETROIT, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- One thousand lucky driving enthusiasts are looking forward to receiving an exclusive version of the new Pontiac Solstice roadster after being first in line to participate in a special promotion announced on Thursday night's episode of NBC's The Apprentice. Only 41 minutes were required to sell out of the specially-badged "First 1,000" Solstices.

"With the great response we've seen to the design and performance features being offered in our new Pontiacs, we were expecting many customers to jump at the chance to order one of the first Solstices," said John Larson, general manager of Buick-Pontiac-GMC. "But we were thrilled that we achieved such amazing results so quickly."

Orders were received from more than 650 dealers in 47 states. Additionally, more than 4,000 customers have asked to be placed on the wait list for one of the exclusive vehicles.

The Solstice early order program will continue through Sunday, April 24. Although the exclusive "First 1,000" cars have been ordered, Pontiac dealers have an additional allotment of Solstices available for pre-order during this period.

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That's good, but it'll need to live up to the hype with more than just unique styling if they hope to continue selling it. Unique styling only works for so long.

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"That's good, but it'll need to live up to the hype with more than just unique styling if they hope to continue selling it. Unique styling only works for so long."


I'm certainly expecting more than just the look from Kappa.

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I'm certainly expecting more than just the look from Kappa."

I am too, so I'm hoping it is actually worthwhile.

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I have a Solstice brochure from the GM vehicle display at the GWCC, and I'll be scanning parts of it and posting it sometime soon. (Whenever I get time, this week will probably be busy.)

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"I have a Solstice brochure from the GM vehicle display at the GWCC, and I'll be scanning parts of it and posting it sometime soon. (Whenever I get time, this week will probably be busy.)"


You posted that twice, whore.

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" You posted that twice, whore. "
IPGM is a disguised way of whoring, whore.

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"I have a Solstice brochure from the GM vehicle display at the GWCC, and I'll be scanning parts of it and posting it sometime soon. (Whenever I get time, this week will probably be busy.)"
My friend got one of those when they bought their orange Vibe a few days ago.  His dad's thinking about getting one.

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"IPGM is a disguised way of whoring, whore."


Not really, there just isn't really much else to say here. It's either IPGM or devoting my forum time only to C/D and the soon-to-open CarSPIN.

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You posted that twice, whore. "

I did? I said I got the SKY brochure in one thread, and I just told you I got the SOLSTICE brochure in this thread. I didn't think I posted that I got the Soltisce in two different places.

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I did? I said I got the SKY brochure in one thread, and I just told you I got the SOLSTICE brochure in this thread. I didn't think I posted that I got the Soltisce in two different places. "


I saw "brochure" in two posts related to GM vehicles, I didn't actually read through both posts.

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" I saw "brochure" in two posts related to GM vehicles, I didn't actually read through both posts. "
And you talk about me.

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"And you talk about me."


Nonstop.

On the subject of the Solstice, GM announced that it would not go on sale until September, contrary to its original estimate of early summer.

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Ah ha. So I'm supposed to put up with verbal abuse because you're too lazy to read?

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"Ah ha. So I'm supposed to put up with verbal abuse because you're too lazy to read? "
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Absolutely.

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Absolutely. "

Now that is just unacceptable.

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Now that is just unacceptable. "


Just unacceptable? Not abominable, amiss, atrocious, awful, bad news, beastly, blah, bottom out, bummer, careless, cheap, cheesy, crappy, cruddy, crummy, defective, deficient, diddly, dissatisfactory, downer, dreadful, erroneous, fallacious, faulty, garbage, god-awful, gross, grungy, icky, imperfect, inadequate, incorrect, inferior, junky, lousy, not good, off, poor, raunchy, rough, sad, scuzzy, sleazeball, sleazy, slipshod, stinking, substandard, synthetic, the pits, or unsatisfactory?

(Thesaurus.com)

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Just unacceptable? Not abominable, amiss, atrocious, awful, bad news, beastly, blah, bottom out, bummer, careless, cheap, cheesy, crappy, cruddy, crummy, defective, deficient, diddly, dissatisfactory, downer, dreadful, erroneous, fallacious, faulty, garbage, god-awful, gross, grungy, icky, imperfect, inadequate, incorrect, inferior, junky, lousy, not good, off, poor, raunchy, rough, sad, scuzzy, sleazeball, sleazy, slipshod, stinking, substandard, synthetic, the pits, or unsatisfactory?

(Thesaurus.com)"

Well, I could say all of the above, but I'd rather point out that you wasted time looking up a word on thesaurus.com just for the heck of it.

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Well, I could say all of the above, but I'd rather point out that you wasted time looking up a word on thesaurus.com just for the heck of it. "


The 30 seconds that I spent was more than worth it.

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The 30 seconds that I spent was more than worth it. "

I'm glad. I'd certainly hate to think that those 30 seconds nly wasted valuable time you could have been doing something else with.

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