![]() ![]() Getting the manual version quickly to 60 requires a torturous high-rpm clutch drop followed by careful management of wheelspin and two very fast shifts. Quarter-mile trap speed provides excellent evidence of a car's horsepower claim if our Sky had had an unusually powerful engine, it would have had a higher speed through the quarter.Īside from being quicker, the automatic option makes accelerative tasks easy. But this is unlikely, considering the Saturn hit the quarter-mile at the same speed - 98 mph - as the Pontiac. You might be thinking this particular Saturn was quirky, that it somehow had an unusually strong engine. We would expect a Solstice GXP with an automatic to be the same as its twin, the Sky Red Line. ![]() With an automatic, the Sky Red Line hustles its way to 60 mph in 5.2 seconds, a time that betters the manual Solstice GXP's 5.6 seconds. This expansion represents an additional 823,788 vehicles.Enchanted by the looks of the Saturn Sky Red Line and Pontiac Solstice GXP but not comfortable with a manual transmission? Concerned that the $850 automatic will sap the joy from GM's diminutive roadster? The good news is that, despite the turn-off of an automatic-equipped sports car, the performance numbers of this Sky Red Line should be seriously eyeballed because in our hands it out-accelerates a mechanically identical Pontiac Solstice GXP equipped with a stick shift. On March 27, 2014, GM notified the agency that the defective ignition switches may have been used as service replacement parts on other vehicles, and as a result GM will be recalling certain model year 2008-2010 Chevrolet Cobalt, Saturn Sky, and Pontiac G5 and Solstice, and 2008-2011 Chevrolet HHR vehicles. In these models, the weight on the key ring and/or road conditions or some other jarring event may cause the ignition switch to move out of the run position, turning off the engine. On February 25, 2014, GM increased the recall to include an additional 748,024 model year 2006-2007 Chevrolet HHR and Pontiac Solstice vehicles and 2003-2007 Saturn Ion vehicles and 2007 Saturn Sky vehicles. General Motors LLC (GM) notified the agency on Februthat they are recalling 619,122 model year 2005-2007 Chevrolet Cobalt, and 2007 Pontiac G5 vehicles. The key fob (if applicable), should also be removed from the key ring. Until this recall is performed, customers should remove all items from their key rings, leaving only the ignition key. This defect can affect the safe operation of the airbag system. Note: Until a vehicle has been remedied, owners and operators are advised that when exiting, to be sure that the vehicle is in "Park," or in the case of a manual transmission, that the vehicle is in the "Reverse" position and the parking brake is engaged. General Motors' number for this recall is 14113 for the ignition lock cylinder and key replacement, and 14133 for only key replacements. Chevrolet owners may contact General Motors at 1-80, Pontiac owners at 1-80, and Saturn owners at 1-80. For vehicles that were built with the redesigned ignition cylinder or had the ignition cylinder replaced with the redesigned part, dealers will cut and, if necessary, re-learn two ignition/door keys for each vehicle. General Motors will notify owners, and for vehicles that were built with the defective ignition cylinder and have not previously had the ignition cylinder replaced with the redesigned part, dealers will replace the ignition cylinder and cut and, if necessary, re-learn two ignition/door keys for each vehicle. ![]()
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