General Motors Kappa-platform roadsters — Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice — are so popular that the automaker has been forced to add overtime at its Wilmington, Del., plant to build the Opel GT roadster. The plant’s capacity of 30,000 vehicles has been fully allocated to Solstice and Sky production, which forced the overtime to build the GT.

The Opel GT is only sold in Europe and is an Opel-badged version of the Saturn Sky Red Line. The Opel GT is powered by a 264-hp turbocharged, direct-injected 2.0L four-cylinder engine. It will not be offered with a naturally aspirated engine.

The Opel GT is scheduled to arrive in dealerships in next month. The 2007 allocation of 2,800 Opel GT’s is already sold out. GM is targeting 3,600 cars a year starting in 2008.

## Source: AutoWeek ##

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