if you like solaras sure.
http://www.toyota.com/camrysolara/index.html

 

I still like the g6 exterior and hate the interior Given the choice at that price, I am all over the mustang. Its insane to even price the g6 within $3000 of the mustang. To 95% of the public the Mustang is going to look better, perform better and its an image car.

 

I think it looks alot like a 350z from behind.

 

I agree. The roofline also seems to mimic the Z. There aren't many sedans I find more attractive than their coupe versions, but with the G6, that's actually the case. :blah:

 

Man...tough room

Anyway, yes the dash is the same as in the coupe...it actually looks better in the coupe, with the faster A pillars and such. To each their own I guess...should've known on a Camaro site, the retro-brick RWD V8 Mustang would be preferred

I know which one I'd spend my $$ on though...G6 looks forward, while Mustang takes that step back that makes me want to hurl. Sure, Mustang is an image car...but that doesn't mean everyone likes the image

 

Jason, I saw black G6 GTP coupe last night at a Pontiac dealer in Louisville. It looks very nice, I am not a fan of the sedan styling but the coupe is very sleek looking and I love the rear. I couldn't get to close because they had it on a turn table thing that was rotating. The window sticker was on the front windshield but I couldn't get close enough to see any of the options or price. I'd love to drive one and check out the performance of this coupe.

 

The G6 looks forward?

**scratches head**
Could have sworn I remember seeing cars like that in the late 90s.
Ford retro-60s.
Pontiac retro-90s!


But I got to sit in a G6 yesterday and it was a nice car. Wouldn't plop down 25k on the coupe over a Mustang though. Kind of don't see the point.
Slower,FWD...and blends in with every other car on the road. **shrugs** Somebody has got to buy them I suppose.

 

I don't know where much of a comparison of Mustang comes in but in any case, both are V6 for that price, both are nice cars but I would think the G6 would be better than the plastic Mustang. I wouldn't know though as I haven't gotten the chance to sit in them yet.

 

hehe...shocking right? I agree with you 100%, and I know which one would get my money as well. I personally think the new Mustang is hideous, and I will never consider the current design as a candidate to the empty spot in my garage. Popularity only adds to my decision not to purchase one...

 

The surprising thing is that the most direct competitor to the G6 coupe will probably be the Mustang, not the Solara or the Accord coupe. Remember, the second choice of most Mustang buyers used to be Grand Ams, not Camaros. I can certainly see those wooed by the V6 Mustang cross-shopping the GT G6. Will Mustang GT buyers cross shop a GTP? Not nearly as often, but I bet it will happen a little bit, especially here in the Northeast. Muscle cars are definitely used primarily as 3 season cars around here. Its amazing how around April 1, all of a sudden you see F bodies and Mustangs coming out of the woodwork

Either way, I can't wait to drive the next one we have coming in...a GTP 6 speed.

 

I think that is a strech.....

Reason the GA was crossshopped with the Mustang is because it looked so agressive. It looked much faster than it was. The GA's ground effects and cladding and agressive styling are not present in the G6 coupe...which seems like a car a 40 year old female real estate agent woud drive.

I really wish Pontiac would have done the G6 right and gave it AWD, 300HP and agressive styling..

 

uhm.......not so fast........

The Grand Am and Z24 were cross-shopped with the Mustang for many reasons......true that styling was one consideration......but the two main reasons in 'rejector studies' from 1998 thru 2001 were:

>FWD confidence in bad weather
>Camaro/Firebird has more power than I need (I'm not kidding......that was the second reason!) Keep in mind that the demographics of the Mustang were different from the Camaro/Firebird.......Mustang had a slightly younger buyer, more female buyers......lower HH income. (don't have the figures in front of me.....)

 

I never understood this logic either, but I have heard of it. Seems to me this makes a huge case for that "true" base V8 car we throw around.....

 

I understood it just fine. My dad even said that when he was test driving Z28s. "Yea, if you just lay into too much slightly, you're gonna wrap it around a tree."
It certainly makes a business case for base v8s. I'm sure that 300hp is somewhat testing people's limits.

 

The guy my father-in-law restores Corvettes with is also the body shop manager of the Chevy/Pontiac/Buick/GMC/Cadillac dealership we shop at...

They just got a G6 GTP in... he said it looks awesome...

Now, that might not sound like much, but he and my father-in-law are both "old school" guys, and don't think a whole lot of today's cars stand out when compared to cars of the past... so the G6 GTP getting a comment like that from him is something quite significant, IMO...

To top it off, he brought it up all by himself while we were talking at my brother-in-law's wedding... I didn't even prompt the response.