The Saturn Sky I Spotted is For Sale!

[Sam Blockhan]

2007 Red Line (2 October 2020)

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/37epnQ0R/2007-saturn-sky-red-line

[Jarrett]

@Sam-Blockhan Less than 1000 miles a year.

What a waste. LOL

[Chariotoflove]

@Sam-Blockhan
If memory serves, that's probably NP. I wonder where it will end when the bidding closes.

[User]

Buy it

[Italia]

@Sam-Blockhan I really wanted one of these until I sat in one and realized I'm about four inches too tall.

[tophercrowder]

@Sam-Blockhan I loved those cars. I rented one while in LA for an art show. While parked on Sunset, people would ask what kind of car it was. I loved driving it.

[Sam Blockhan]

@Genesis_Haysenhox I wish I could, but it's beyond my budget and my Dad won't let me learn to drive a manual with his Ford Fiesta.

[ItalianJobR53]

@Chariotoflove is it NP? You can get a C6 vette for that much which will make better sounds and be faster…

[drVanTraveler]

@Sam-Blockhan That is a nice one. It's already been bid up more than it's worth to me.
Just another collectible to be traded around and not driven.

[Mr.Ontop]

@ItalianJobR53 Cars like this aren't about speed. they are about cruising and arriving in style. You want to be seen in it. Even if it's just a Saturn, it's a cool Saturn. (Yeah, yea, I know it's just a rebadged Opel)

[WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTInowA4]

@ItalianJobR53 said in The Saturn Sky I Spotted is For Sale!:

@Chariotoflove is it NP? You can get a C6 vette for that much which will make better sounds and be faster…

For rarity, maybe. For performance, surely not.

[HFV_Junkyardin]

@Sam-Blockhan I love that color.

[Chariotoflove]

@ItalianJobR53 said in The Saturn Sky I Spotted is For Sale!:

@Chariotoflove is it NP? You can get a C6 vette for that much which will make better sounds and be faster…

I'm not talking about what else you can get for the money. I mean what these go for in their market. The Solstice GXPs easily top this in good condition, and I have no reason to imagine this Saturn is different.

[Sam Blockhan]

@Mr-Ontop And a Daewoo.

[Mr.Ontop]

@Sam-Blockhan That one actually hurts my feelings.... and also, full disclosure I used to own a Daewoo Lanos.

[Sam Blockhan]

@Mr-Ontop Cool! What happened to it?

[Mr.Ontop]

@Sam-Blockhan Sit down, it's story time.

I liked it well enough. I just bought it because it was cheap, fairly new, just one year old at the time. I was in need of a car my trusty old 200k mile LeBaron (like this one) had given me all that it could give, so I HAD to replace it. No choice.

I didn't have a lot of money, and this one seemed to be built sturdier than any other low cost import, like Hyundai, so I took a chance. It did the job, and got decent mileage, and I used it for a part time delivery gig * This was way back when I was still trying to pay off my student loans and worked multiple jobs for that express purpose) *

Not my car, but it looked exactly like it.

I think if it hadn't been for all the wear and tear that delivery gig put the car through, it would have lasted longer. I stayed on top of maintenance, but it seemed that when the car engine failed the first time, it started a cascade of failures that were thankfully covered by warranty, but it just wouldn't stay fixed.

Seriously, I could not fix that car as fast as it would break down. This was my first car that I had to replace the engine on (Thank god for the warranty, didn't cost me a dime) but on the first one, I went to the dealership, happy to have my now fixed car back, I pulled out on the street only to have it give a death rattle and immediately die....which was not what I expected a car with a new 0 mile engine to do. I walked back to the service department, and told them what happened. They thought it was just something not hooked up or maybe a loose battery cable etc. They helped me push the car back into their garage and started looking for what was wrong... an hour or two later they get back to me...one of their genius mechanics had somehow dropped a socket into the motor. It had somehow gotten sucked into one of the cylinders and just destroyed everything it came into contact with. No problem. It was obvious that they had been the ones at fault...I'm pretty sure dude was fired.. but I now had to wait for them to ship yet another new engine from Korea to replace that one. Another month in a rental car that they generously provided to me at no cost.

I got the car back a month or so later, this time, everything worked as it should, and it did it's job well enough, but sure as hell, it started giving me problems again, this time with emissions, which CA is rather strict about. The shop told me they couldn't identify why it kept throwing the code and that it may cost at least $1K ( which was a lot of money to me at the time) to replace all the sensors because they were apparently deep in the engine and not easily accessed and they couldn't promise that it would actually clear up the problem.

I stopped to take note of this. I only paid $7800 for the car to start with. I was now on my THIRD engine and the car still wasn't even at 80k miles...I just ask the shop what they would give me for it and then made them give me a little more because it had a full tank of gas.

Fortune had smiled on me, so I had another car waiting in the wings, but god, what cluster owning that car had been.

In short, it could have been a much better experience.

[415s30]

@Sam-Blockhan Nice Opel

[Sam Blockhan]

@Mr-Ontop Dang.

I've heard people both say that Daewoos were reliable and unreliable. Perhaps there was poor quality control, so some came out good and others not so much, and some places were adept at fixing them, and others were not.

[Mr.Ontop]

@Sam-Blockhan I did like the car, oddly enough, more than my other 3engine replaced Dodge Intrepid.

[fintail]

@Sam-Blockhan I always was amused the Saturn, a brand known for being gentle and non-confrontational, had the more bold aggressive styling, while the sporty Pontiac brand was soft and rounded.

[SilentbutnotreallyDeadly]

@Sam-Blockhan most cheap Checked like the Spark and the Cruze are actually Daewoo vehicles in disguise...

[CaptDale - is secretly British]

@Sam-Blockhan Neat, maybe they will trade for a broken Alfa

[Miss Mercedes]

A Sky Red Line is one of my dream cars. But at these prices I'm pretty sure that the one I'd end up with has mileage starting with a 2 with 5 trailing digits.