Saturn sky driver#
It kicks out the tail of the car, unsettling the rear tires and eliminating driver confidence. The Sky Red Line’s damping is fine– initially. (The base car is a handful in the wet she’ll swap ends faster than a boomerang.) Later, in the dry, I discovered that the more powerful Red Line Sky makes tire-shredding mid-corner drifts so easy you’ll start to think your last name is Millen. This is from someone who used to drive a rusty Dodge Caravan without complaint.Īs I mentioned, my first day with the Saturn Sky Red Line was wet, wet, wet (and too cold to play ball), so I left the traction control alone and did nothing at all. In fact, my girlfriend refused to drive the car. Nor will she be pleased with how low you sit inside its carcass. Women who achieve high Fahrenheit readings will not be pleased by the lack of a vanity mirror in the Saturn Red Line’s sun visor. I believe a convertible’s cool factor is measured in direct proportion to the hotness of the woman next to you. My normal airplane carry-on wouldn’t fit into the trunk.
Step 3: Slam (and I mean SLAM!) the boot lid down, making sure it’s sealed on either side of the car. When you think it’s down, give it a nice shove in the middle ‘til it’s nestled snugly. With both hands, pull the top backward into the trunk.
Saturn sky crack#
Crack open the glovebox and hit the trunk release.
Saturn sky windows#
Step 1: Open the windows and unlatch the top from the top of the windshield. So I dropped the thoroughly ridiculous piece of barnyard engineering known as the Saturn Sky’s roof. Not because of the way it looked, sounded or drove because the roof leaked. Still, who cares? I admit that my pants were wet when I got behind the wheel of the Sky Red Line. Meanwhile, twin antennas– an OnStar/XM killer whale and an analog radio whip– continue to mar the roadster’s pitch perfect lines. OK, the brake cooling vents and the larger mesh in the lower grille add a bit of aggression, but the cosmetic changes to the basic Sky are about as thrilling as Pamela Anderson’s fourth breast op. The headlights’ black bezels, chromed exhausts tips and 18” wheels are nice, but they do little to project the requisite menace. The Red Line’s chromed hood vents are fake. While the Saturn Sky Red Line’s basic shape and proportions remain top shelf eye candy– a modern take on the original Corvette– God is not in the details. With the advent of the Saturn Sky Red Line, GM’s different kind of sports car gets a chance to redeem itself amongst die-hard pistonheads, to whom the drop-dead gorgeous base model failed to provide the necessary automotive intercourse. In fact, the Sky is the most physically appealing GM car has produced since Harley Earl last prowled the halls of The General’s design department. But the Sky knocks the ball out of the park in the style department.
Not because it’s a great car the lack of any appreciable trunk space and the model’s less than intoxicating driving dynamics make it a toy with limited play value. The Saturn Sky has been a tremendous success.
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