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: Saturn brand phased out

hirevtuner
09-30-2009, 04:20 PM
Who here owns a Saturn? i personally think the only saturn looks good is the sky model

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/GM-to-shut-down-Saturn-after-apf-1669090380.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=1&asset=&ccode=
Vansterdam
09-30-2009, 04:32 PM
GG
RabidRat
09-30-2009, 04:40 PM
damn, i liked the sky too
roastpuff
09-30-2009, 04:43 PM
Damn, I liked the new Aura. And the Astra. And the Sky.
ilvtofu
09-30-2009, 04:48 PM
I like the exterior of all the current saturn models, well maybe not the big suv
StylinRed
09-30-2009, 05:40 PM
yeah i thought Saturn was making some good moves recently... oh wells
maxx
09-30-2009, 05:48 PM
too bad.

the Vue is a nice truck, among with the afformentioned models
GordonTse
09-30-2009, 11:44 PM
i used to drive a saturn :P still in the household.
cho
09-30-2009, 11:56 PM
friend just got a new astra

...meh
SpartanAir
10-01-2009, 05:18 AM
Opel still makes the Astra in Europe...Thank the lord Saturn shut down, they are so ugly. The Sky is just a Solstice with a different body.
I do have to say I liked the front ends on the early model Vues, looked kinda cool. But they had some real annoying ads in their time.
Like when those old ladies want to watch the young guy bend over to look in his back seat of his lame coupe, but then he BUSTS OUT the '3rd door' and doesn't have to bend over and they get all disappointed...
thumper
10-01-2009, 06:40 AM
The Sky is just a Solstice with a different body.

i thought that the sky and solstice was based on the opel speedster? :confused:

still... i was hoping saturn would survive as a division that would carry all of GM's european models. oh well :(
ilvtofu
10-01-2009, 06:59 AM
Except the opel speedster is mid engined...

The Sky is just a Solstice with a different body.
That's not really a bad thing since it looks better, they should get rid of the solstice instead ;) or both! Just look at that trunk space,

maybe they should've just sold the opel speedster in a slightly more luxurious version here instead since the trunk space of the solstice/sky convertibles is absolutely inaccessible due to the fuel tank practicality isn't good either way

And the speedster would've been competitive on the track, whereas even the GXP solstice doesn't fair that well with the competition considering it has 260hp
J____
10-01-2009, 07:00 AM
haha damn, just this last month when i was in the states i've been seeing that saturn commercial with the black guy in green shirt saying how saturn makes cars americans wanna buy at least 10 times a day. Well i guess they dont =/
Mugen EvOlutioN
10-01-2009, 07:05 AM
when solstice / sky first came out about 3 years ago people were buying it


now i hardly see them on the street
q0192837465
10-01-2009, 09:34 AM
the easiest way is to just bring re-brand them as opel. Opel gives a nice ring but saturn just seem...........i dunno, lame. Seriously, using a planet name as a brand is kinda lame, same goes with mercury. I guess I watched too much sailormoon.

http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~darkness/pictures/SailorSaturn.jpg
Mugen EvOlutioN
10-01-2009, 10:34 AM
sailor pooooooo
yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy


:thumbsup::thumbsup:
!LittleDragon
10-01-2009, 05:46 PM
i thought that the sky and solstice was based on the opel speedster? :confused:




The Sky is the North American version of the Opel GT. Both are based on the Kappa platform, the Solstice was the first car to use this platform.

The Opel Speedster uses the Lotus Elise chassis but with a 2.0L turbo motor. There was talk way back about GM bringing over the Speedster as the new Pontiac Fiero. Shame they didnt, I'd totally rock one. Handled like, faster than and thousands less than the Elise.
ilvtofu
10-01-2009, 08:33 PM
The Sky is the North American version of the Opel GT. Both are based on the Kappa platform, the Solstice was the first car to use this platform.

The Opel Speedster uses the Lotus Elise chassis but with a 2.0L turbo motor. There was talk way back about GM bringing over the Speedster as the new Pontiac Fiero. Shame they didnt, I'd totally rock one. Handled like, faster than and thousands less than the Elise.

+1 new fiero would've been awesome, probably better built and more usable than the elise
orange7
10-01-2009, 11:14 PM
the easiest way is to just bring re-brand them as opel. Opel gives a nice ring but saturn just seem...........i dunno, lame. Seriously, using a planet name as a brand is kinda lame, same goes with mercury. I guess I watched too much sailormoon.

http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/%7Edarkness/pictures/SailorSaturn.jpg

I'm down I'm down.
you!
10-02-2009, 09:12 AM
the easiest way is to just bring re-brand them as opel. Opel gives a nice ring but saturn just seem...........i dunno, lame. Seriously, using a planet name as a brand is kinda lame, same goes with mercury. I guess I watched too much sailormoon.

http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~darkness/pictures/SailorSaturn.jpg

yeeeee
!Aznboi128
10-02-2009, 09:21 AM
the astra's pretty nice.....

also the older Vue redline it had a 3.5 v6 from Honda J35's awesome
StewartJD
10-03-2009, 03:55 PM
My mom owns an Aura, looks pretty good imo, and no major problems in 2 years of ownership. Shame Saturn will be gone.
thumper
10-03-2009, 04:59 PM
a few days ago the local saturn dealerships were agressively advertising their stock with big 1/2 page ads in the vancouver sun... but now they are gone. i wonder what is going on (eg. all saturn dealerships shut down?)...