2007 Sky Pictures

The Sky was recently displayed at Saturn of North Houston and was able to
shoot a few pictures. The lighting was surprisingly poor and my ancient
Kodak DC215 Zoom is certainly showing its limitations with these shots.
Definitely time for a new camera. Pictures aren't great but can be viewed
at following link:

http://home.houston.rr.com/bfiedler2/Saturn/

Always curious, I asked the tech traveling with the unit if they plan to
show it with the top. He said the top is still in design and not available
at this time.

John
2004 Vue

 

-> The Sky was recently displayed at Saturn of North Houston and was able to
-> shoot a few pictures. The lighting was surprisingly poor and my ancient
-> Kodak DC215 Zoom is certainly showing its limitations with these shots.
-> Definitely time for a new camera. Pictures aren't great but can be viewed
-> at following link:
->
-> http://home.houston.rr.com/bfiedler2/Saturn/
->
-> Always curious, I asked the tech traveling with the unit if they plan to
-> show it with the top. He said the top is still in design and not available
-> at this time.
->
-> John
-> 2004 Vue


Looks a bit like that sporty new Pontiac, imho.
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I certainly like it more than the Miata. It will be intersting how Car and
Driver (and similar) review. I'm also interested in how it does in crash
testing...

....maybe something to look into for my pending mid-life crisis! (grin)

Thanks for the pics.

 

Suzie-Q <> typed until their fingers bled, and came
up with:

The Solstice?

That would be because they are both based on the Kappa architecture.

Opel will have a version as well.

 

I got a few hi-res photos at last year's Chicago auto show - you can see
them here: http://www.evilplastic.com/05show/show05c.htm

It is a darn good looking car in person. The photos don't do it justice.

Lane [ lane (at) evilplastic.com ]

 

I agree.

Your link reminds me though of an early prototype shown at the Houston Auto
show, Feb 2, 2003. Much different than the current prototype being shown...

http://home.houston.rr.com/bfiedler2/Saturn/html/Pt.html

 

Too bad Saturn was not producing cars like this 7 years ago. That, IMHO, is
when they lost their momentum and just became another GM division. Shiyite,
Saturn could be running GM had they the ability to put out cars like this.
Big Brother GM said no, you can't take away Chevy sales.

 

Given that it is VERY closely related to the Pontiac Solstice, I would
expect that they just didn't want anyone to see the ratty-looking top
inflicted on that car. The local Pontiac dealer had their 'demo' Solstice
showing here in the Frozen North with the top-down as well -- in November,
with the snow flying (the 'flying buttress' gimmick combined with the
gun-slit side windows makes the car look quite "prototypish" with the top
up, in my opinion -- and apparently the dealer's as well)

Worse still, when lowered, the top pretty much fills the luggage
compartment, making this car totally impractical even for week-end trips
away. Mazda still out-engineered GM I fear -- though I prefer the look of
the Sky / Solstice siblings, and would prefer to buy North American, the
Miata can actually be used as a real car, rather than an occasional-use toy.