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GM aims for new heights with Sky

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Thought this article was already put up but can't find it. It's a couple weeks old but here it is....

http://www.freep.com/money/autonews/saturn29e_20041129.htm

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I don’t remember seeing that particular article on the forum before, but I could have just forgotten about it. I hope the Sky isn’t too menacing, since its name does not conjure up an image of a menacing car!
The first Kappa-based car to reach production will be the Pontiac Solstice roadster, which should go on sale in the second half of 2005.
Notice they didn't say Fall! :thumbs :cheers
Fformula88 said:
I don’t remember seeing that particular article on the forum before, but I could have just forgotten about it. I hope the Sky isn’t too menacing, since its name does not conjure up an image of a menacing car!
The name is lame, but I really hope the car does have the "menacing" attitude of the VX. So far the GM released sketch gives me great hope.
Rik said:
The name is lame, but I really hope the car does have the "menacing" attitude of the VX. So far the GM released sketch gives me great hope.
I actually kinda like the name now. And I definately like it better then 'Evoke' which was the other rumored name.
brentil said:
I actually kinda like the name now. And I definately like it better then 'Evoke' which was the other rumored name.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo brentil! Be strong don't give in. We can pick our own name. We just have to think of something that has the right amount of attitude for the car.
Rik said:
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo brentil! Be strong don't give in. We can pick our own name. We just have to think of something that has the right amount of attitude for the car.
True true, but then that goes against the mentality of the Rebadging Thread we had a while back :D
Speaking of that rebadging thread.... I responded in that thread that I would leave the badging on the Solstice. My answer may be different if I were to by the Sky. I'd probably leave the Saturn badging, but if it says Sky on it I may have to remove the name The name really doesn't do anything for me at all. :sleep
Fformula88 said:
Speaking of that rebadging thread.... I responded in that thread that I would leave the badging on the Solstice. My answer may be different if I were to by the Sky. I'd probably leave the Saturn badging, but if it says Sky on it I may have to remove the name The name really doesn't do anything for me at all. :sleep
Yes, I agree with this. But I still like the Sky name better then Evoke. Doesn't mean I think Sky is the best name though. Maybe we should just make some 'Kappa' badges and rebadge all the Kappa cars :D
brentil said:
Yes, I agree with this. But I still like the Sky name better then Evoke. Doesn't mean I think Sky is the best name though. Maybe we should just make some 'Kappa' badges and rebadge all the Kappa cars :D
LOL, I suppose you are right. Sky is better than Evoke, but its basically the best of two horrible names. It’s like saying a quick painless execution is better than a slow, painful one. :banghead
Might sound lame,but what is kappa?
GM's name for the platform Solstice/Sky/Opel/Daewoo are built on. I'm sure that there will be better explanations.

Terry
And no it's not lame! It's all good!

If you have any other questions just ask away!

Bert
Link is a little busted Nova. This one will go right to the answer. :thumbs:

GM Kappa platform - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The forum auto-converting the link ate the ending ")" :(

Kappa (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I was linking to the disambiguation page for the listing of uses of the word Kappa. I had heard of the word from both Japanese folklore/cryptid and the Greek character.

If I had to guess, I'd guess that GM chose it because of one of the Greek character uses. :dunno: :thumbs:
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