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Saturn Sky surely makes a surprising differentiation from the traditional Saturn car concept: we are talking about the first sports car in the division with an immense market success. Saturn Sky is a very new brand in the Saturn family, even if it has common features with Pontiac Solstice and Opel GT: this is the case with the Kappa automobile platform that is present with all the three GM designs.

Saturn Sky has 18 inch wheels and two engine options: you can go for the 177 horsepower Ecotec LE5 engine or the turbocharged one that produces no less than 260 horsepower. Further on, Saturn Sky brings two types of transmission, manual and automatic, and this difference reflects in the price of the vehicles too. The model designed for the Red Line is definitely more expensive with a price of about $30,000; however in case you go for the five speed automatic you could be saving $5,000.

What is there additional in the Red Line Saturn Sky? There is a better suspension over the average quality provided by the basic Saturn Sky model, plus, the stability control is also upgraded. Dual exhausts, pretentious leather decorations in the interior with special tachometer and digital control panel are just a few other features of the Saturn Sky Red Line variant available since the end of 2006. Add on options are found with the dealers in case you want to enhance some specificity of a standard Saturn Sky, and this applies very well to the improvement of the suspension.

There are companies that focus on various conversions of the Saturn Sky into even more powerful cars; one fine example is the case of Mallet Cars, Ohio, that put a V8 engine on this GM car. Thus the horsepower outcome is not lower than 400 with the turbocharged versions going way beyond 750 horsepower. The torque or the brakes are other Saturn Sky parts that can undergo various configurations either custom-made or not.

Last but not least, Saturn Sky has been subjected to electric conversions, or at least efforts are being made in that direction by teams interested in making it more price convenient as an autonomous vehicle. No fuel consume, but the same great feeling a sports car gives? That really sounds awesome!. Needless to say that a V8 Saturn Sky engine has a huge gas consume, which is surely alarming for environmentalists. With the ever stricter necessity to use the planet resources wisely, time may come when fuel-powered engines become an extinct car production segment.

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