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Saturn announces pricing for 2007 Sky Red Line



Press Release:
2007 Saturn Sky Red Line Features Turbocharged Value

260-horsepower roadster to start at $27,895

Detroit – Today, Saturn announced that the 2007 Sky Red Line will be available this fall at a starting manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $27,895 (including destination charges). Retailers are now taking orders for the turbocharged variant of the Sky roadster, which is one of the hottest selling cars in the auto market.

The Sky Red Line features the 2.0L Ecotec Turbo engine, equipped with direct injection technology. It produces 260 horsepower and 260 lb.-ft. of torque, making it General Motors’ highest specific output engine ever at 2.1 horsepower per cubic inch of displacement.

“Through its design and advanced technology, the Sky Red Line shows that Saturn is making vehicles like never before,” said Dave Smidebush, Saturn’s director of marketing. “But the Sky Red Line also demonstrates that the brand’s commitment to great value and innovation in our product lineup is as strong as ever.”

Along with the boost in horsepower and torque, the Sky Red Line features a long list of standard equipment including:

Stabilitrak electronic stability control
Traction control
Close-ratio five-speed manual transmission with self-adjusting clutch
Four-wheel ABS disc brakes
Limited slip differential
Performance-tuned suspension with coil-over Bilstein monotube shocks
Air conditioning
Power locks, windows and mirrors
OnStar with one year of Safe & Sound service
The Sky Red Line will accelerate from 0-60 mph in about 5.5 seconds, and will run the quarter mile in about 13.9 seconds.

Saturn, a division of General Motors Corp., sells vehicles in the U.S. and Canada through a network of about 500 retailers, with a focus on providing innovative products with solid value and excellent customer service. In 2006, the brand begins a major revitalization of its portfolio with five new vehicles: the Sky and Sky Red Line roadsters, Aura midsize sports sedan, Vue Green Line Hybrid and Outlook large crossover utility. These new vehicles join the current lineup that includes the Ion compact sedan and quad coupe, Vue compact SUV and the Relay crossover van.

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Marty Howard
2011 NASA SE Factory Five Challenge Champion
Track Events Logistics Coordinator - TZC/THSCC
2007 Factory Five Challenge Car.
http://www.mh-motorsports.com

Pontiac Announces Solstice "Turbo" GXP Pricing



Press Release:
New Turbocharged Roadster to Sell for Under $26K

Detroit - At the height of the summer solstice, Pontiac today announced that the turbocharged 2007 Solstice GXP will carry a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $25,995, including a $600 destination charge. The 260-horsepower roadster arrives in Pontiac dealerships this fall.

Powered by GM's new direct injection, turbocharged 2.0-liter Ecotec engine, the Solstice GXP adds a 47 percent boost of power to augment the road-gripping performance and seductive styling already available in the base model roadster.

"The passion customers have for the Solstice continues to amaze us and we have been sold out of the 2006 models for the past couple of months," said Mark-Hans Richer, Pontiac marketing director. "There's already a waiting list for the 2007 models, so we believe the GXP will only extend the Solstice's position as the top-selling roadster in the U.S., proving that a domestic car can retake a segment previously dominated by imports."

Model year to date through May, Pontiac has sold 15,145 Solstices, outselling the closest competitor in the segment by more than 2,600 units. Solstice remains one of the industry's hottest selling cars, contributing to a 20 percent increase in Pontiac showroom traffic since the beginning of the year and double digit percent sales gains in key coastal markets.

Pontiac is a division of General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM) and markets the G6 sedan, coupe and retractable hardtop convertible, GTO, Solstice roadster, Torrent SUV, Grand Prix, and Vibe. Later in 2006, Pontiac will introduce the turbocharged Solstice GXP roadster and G5 sports coupe. Pontiac sold more than 437,000 vehicles in 2005, ranking third among GM divisions in total sales.

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Marty Howard
2011 NASA SE Factory Five Challenge Champion
Track Events Logistics Coordinator - TZC/THSCC
2007 Factory Five Challenge Car.
http://www.mh-motorsports.com

Please stop, those pics have me thinking baaaad thoughts...

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Hmmm.... Yeah, which one to buy. They both look good!

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Do they have any type of stock roll over protection? A woman that I work with ordered the Sky and she did not konw.

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"Never let life be shaped by fear of its end"

No, you're a towel!

The Aztek crowd are designing roadsters too. :throws up in my mouth a little:

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No rollover protection:

From http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/autos/stor ... 4393c.html

There are no pop-up rollbars in the Sky, and the windshield pillars provide only "a degree of rollbar" protection during rollover crashes, according to a Saturn official who noted that "in the real world, roadsters are exempt from (government) roof crush standards."


--Donnie

Of course you *would* have to do something pretty drastic to get one of these things to roll...

They're finally making affordable roadsters with some real power. I was wondering 10 years ago why nobody made anything like this then. The idea is pretty simple, after all...

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'93 Mazda RX7, touring ed., 5 spd.

I could be lured by hatch/coupe versions.

Miata engineers said something similar...you would have to do something really ignorant (not counting competition/high performance driving) to get it to roll over - "it will spin out first" was how they justified no roll-over protection.

A Solstice parked next to me in the deck last week and of course, the first thing that came to my mind was to figure out where (if) you can put the rollbar! I took a snap of the interior behind the seats with the camera phone. Not much room to put one in there by my estimation...and then there are all the stock interior panels of a brand new car that you are going to have to "destroy". Also not sure how the folding roof stuff will interact, either. Will be interested to see what the aftermarket brings for this car (thinking about the lack of rollbars for the Honda S2000).

Clarification - I can see where the hoop could go in there but I'm not seeing where the rear braces will go.

Regards,
--Ashraf

I think these have cages:


http://hotrod.com/projectbuild/hdrp_0605_solstice_v8_project_car_23_z.jpg
http://www.solsticeforums.com/

You think track wheels could fit in this: