2007 Saturn Ion
November 27th, 2006
The 2007 Saturn Ion is an inexpensive compact vehicle that emphasizes style and innovation as well as value. Ion was all-new in 2003, and significantly larger than the Saturn S-series model it replaced. The 2004 Saturn Ion features some significant updates, including higher-grade interior fabrics and richer-looking interior trim in more harmonious colors. Additional sound-deadening material brings a quieter cabin. The stereo systems have been improved and is available with an MP3 player, XM Satellite Radio, and a six-CD changer.
2007 Saturn Outlook
November 19th, 2006
Inside, the Outlook will offer two seating plans, one for seven passengers, the other for eight. In the former, the first- and second-row seats are buckets, the third row a three-person, 60/40-split bench. In the latter, a three-place, 60/40-split bench replaces the second-row buckets. Saturn promises ample room for adults in all seating rows, with special emphasis on the rear-most bench. With comparable room to the Honda Pilot, the Outlook’s third row can accommodate three passengers but will likely be more comfortable with two.
2007 Saturn Sky
October 29th, 2006
GM product czar Bob Lutz smote the earth and up sprang the pipsqueak Kappa platform, a fascinating potpourri of hydroformed steel tubes and stampings, aluminum control arms, and GM-parts-bin bits. The Kappa is now experiencing cell mitosis. First it sired the Pontiac Solstice roadster (December 2005), and now it gives life to a Saturn cub-Vette. The Sky, assembled alongside the Solstice in Wilmington, Delaware, is 3.9 inches longer than the Pontiac but otherwise virtually identical dimensionally. It is the Sky that will sell in Europe as the Opel GT, having been styled in GM’s Coventry, England, studios by Simon Cox, the chief artiste behind Cadillac’s 2001 Cien show car.