Keeping their promise to launch a hardtop “targa” version of their popular Pontiac Solstice two seater in early 2008, General Motors are planning to reveal the Pontiac Solstice Targa at the New York Auto Show, just 10 days from now! This new exotic is being internally referred to as GMX627.

Keeping the Targa tradition alive this new Solstice is known to have removable panels directly above the driver and the passengers head. This time buyers will be having choice of hard or soft removable panels though! Trunk might be slightly reconfigured to easily occupy the roof panels.

It will be interesting to know whether GM will build a regular Solstice coupe or at least something very close to it! However, GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz is known to have said the coupe would look “exactly” like Solstice Coupe Concept presented in 2002 so there is good possibility that the new car will be built on very similar lines to the concept. Production starts in Jan’09 at GM’s Wilmington facility and will be limited to only 10,000 cars annually. Possible debut venues are LAIAS 2008 or the SEMA 2008.

Let’s see how much buzz the Pontiac Solstice Targa generates in the market and how well it sells.