Edmunds Full Test: 2007 Saturn Sky
Beauty at a Price
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By Mike Hudson Email | Blog
Date posted: 08-02-2006
At the age of 11, before the 2007 Saturn Sky was a twinkle in Bob Lutz's eye, a young soon-to-be writer was hauled by his father to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. With dad, older brother and the young upstart fighting 100-degree temperatures, the adventurers trudged along the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in search of beauty.
Here it was: a sight of crashing waves, striated stone and unblemished flora existing as one entity in a display of brilliant, haunting confluence. A symphony hall and art museum had arisen in the woods miles from anywhere, performing a hypnotic, never-ending improv for anyone who cared to visit.
Filled with hope for mankind, we headed back to the car — a day-and-a-half hike. Beauty faded with a lack of water and dozens of horsefly bites. Fellow hikers grew tiresome. Needless to say, running out of toilet paper had us thinking, "Disney World would be a fun vacation."
Somewhere between then and now, Lutz twinkled and the Saturn Sky convertible was born. Pictured Rocks had been turned into convenient garage-able form.
It is a beautiful sight — beautiful enough to steal customers away from Mazda MX-5 Miatas and Honda S2000s. But as hours in the Sky turn to days, beauty again fades into questions. Why is this ride so rough? Why is the shifter dancing like a novelty Coke can? What is that rattle? Where can I put...anything?
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