[BigAls87Z28]

Point still remains that people want a total package, and Pontiac designed the car to be a total package. The car will have better handling, better brakes, and a more powerful engine. It comes as a package. Along with things like electronic stability control as well af 4 channel abs SHOULD be standard on a car such as this. It is standard on all other of GM's cars. NO ONE offers a stripper performance car. Why have a big engine when the brakes suck? Why make 600hp when you cant turn worth a damn.
Again, if you WANT a stripper Solstice, they DO make thoes. For 20k, you can get a manual window, manual lock, no AC, 177hp 5spd, no frills sports car. You complain about voiding warranty, but I assume that if you broke something durring racing in your stripper sports car, that GM would just look the other way and cover it huh?
Pontiac clearly made a very awesome sports car for a very very low price. 260hp, RWD, under 2900lbs, and some of the best handling and braking out there, and if they can keep to the 3-4k over base price, its even better. For about 26k, you can have a very powerful street machine that can take it to many cars, with room to spare. Bigger brakes, tighter suspesnsion, its a sweet deal.
As for stripper models, im talking to a bunch of enthusiasts here that all they care about is racing. In the world of the other 95%, when people spend a lot of money for a high po car, they expect the best.
ZL1's did NOT sell that well at all!! They were twice the price of a normal Camaro, and looked nothing more then a standard model.
The more power, the better quality stuff, the higher the price. Thats how it goes. GM did show a Solstice race car with a carbon fiber removable hard top at SEMA, and Lutz and others want the car in Grand Am racing.