The Sky nose looks like a boxer leading with his chin, but the overall look is sporty, with peaked front fenders, big forward-leaning vents in the front fenders, and twin head nacelles like the Solstice's in the body just behind the cockpit, leading to a short rear end with small, tasty corner-mounted taillamps. With very few details changes, this design will be sold in Europe as the Opel GT roadster.
The Sky looks pretty cool with the top down, not so cool with the flying-buttress top up. Stowing the top requires popping the decklid with the key fob, which also unlocks the pins that hold down the rear section or buttresses. Then you have to get out of the car, fold the top down into the cargo bay, push it down a couple of times until it is fully nested, then walk around to the back of the car and slam the decklid down with a good amount of force from the center of the lid so that both sides will lock down. The Saturn top has more noise insulation than the Solstice top, so the interior is quieter, but in all three of the cars we tried, there were significant air leaks between window glass and top seals on both sides of the car.
Given the restrictions imposed by sharing the GM Kappa platform, we think it's a pretty successful execution of a new Saturn design, with only a few niggles, like the tiny SKY badge hung out there in left field instead of centered under the Saturn logo on the decklid where we think it belongs.
