I think your guy made it up. Taking the information as a whole, I'd say cars were produced to fill images sometime earlier this week, not just friday.
However, I'll say it once again, whether production started monday, tuesday, friday, or next week... it doesn't matter.
What everyone SHOULD be asking is "when will the first SKY's be shipped to fill dealer orders/allocations?"
THAT is the real "big deal" date. Shipping to fill orders means the cars being produced now have been deemed good enough to sell to customers.
Producing to fill orders is no big deal. The Solstice attemped to do this many times, and that's why we got post after post of "I was told production started today", where 'today' in that statement was:
January 2005
March 15, 2005
May 5th, 2005
May 16, 2005
May 23, 2005
May 30, and also may 31, 2005
June 6, 2005
june 15, 2005
Jun 21 (obvious desire being the summer solstice), 2005
July 14, 15, 19, 2005
July 25, 28, 2005
first car was delivered (most of the founding members remember this one) at a party at the Renaissance Center on August 5, 2005. When was that car built? Answer: nobody really knows...
Even AFTER that car was delivered, the cars were being built, then sequestered (ask mceb about that one - VIN 000030, suspect built sometime in July or August, IIRC he got his car in october???) and repaired by the hundreds.... it was a mess over at Solsticeforum - people tearing their hair out and ranting about their cars being held up... man you guys should have seen the rumors THEN :lol:
So, you will continue to get all kinds of speculation, but (reiterated again) the
start of production doesn't matter. What matters is when the first vehicle gets shipped to a dealer.
My guess, acutal start of production was prolly Valentine's Day, give or take a day. I won't even charge $0.02 for that one...
The next big hurdle is all the stuff that has to happen to cars built now before they ship. THAT is what we all should be asking - "when will the first cars reach dealers?" "When will the first cars be shipped?"
