Anyone see Saturn making a Turbo Ion in the future???

 

http://www.autoblog.com/2005/12/15/o...09-saturn-ion/

 

nope, the Ion is dead

whats the point anyway, people will just bash it because of the Saturn logo and then praise the Cobalt even though its built on the same platform

 

There will not be. Saturn Sky Redline as the LNF but the Ion was killed off at end of MY07 and was replaced by the Astra. There is talk about an Astra Redline that might be powered by the LNF but not sure on that.

 

Astra Redline would be a SWEET ride.

 

I thought i remeber hearing about a turbo astra redline.

 

reminds me of the MS3

 

thats very nice, i would dump the cobalt for that, i love hatches

 

wow the astra is nice whats hp numbers on those bad boys

 

oohhh i want one, thats nice.

 

I hope the call it the VXR, like the Opels and Vauxhalls. I love the exhaust on them. Hopefully Ford will finally release a Focus ST or RS in this country. There small car division is hideous. The Verve/Fiesta looks very good imo, it's just not going to be released anytime soon.

 

138hp, 1.8L

 

saturn has a 1.6 litre turbo and a 2 l turbo astra model to begin production in 2009

 

the VXRs have been around awhile...so they are thinking of introducing them to the US? SWEEET!

 

Someone's gotta photoshop an Ion with an Aura or Sky front end.

 

if they come out with a astra opc vxr or redline.. im getting another car.. i love the look of the vxr .. i've even thought about buying an astra xr and getting the vxr kit and then turboing it but then i remember that would come to about 35K after i'm all done lol

 

If they release a Nurburing edition with the Recaros and everything else I think they will price themselves towards an R32 and Evo GSR range. I like the Hot Hatch look but I think the Cobalt has an old school wedge look that nobody is using other than Scion. I love to see what the Vdub crowd would say? They always throw that it's German engineered crap in your face.

 

^^...I own an .:R32 and I think this car looks great.

Oh yeah my car is german engineered so its 1000x better thatn anythign else.

Sorry had to do it...

 

there is one reason, and one reason alone why i decided on the cobalt and not the ion. the gauges being placed over the center console. i ******* hate it. if it werent for that. id have that car instead. and to be honest if they made a redline tc quad sometime in the future (with the gauges in the right place), id get a yellow one as soon as i could afford the losses of trading in my balt.

 

the gauges are actually alot better once you get used to it.. i never take my eyes off the road to see how fast i'm going.. it's parallel to your line of site so you can still see the road through peripheral vision as well as see the speedo through it as well

 

functionality aside, i dont like the way it looks, and it ******* wierds me out :P ill just have to drive one sometime :P

 

haaha fair enough yea i was like WTF till i drove it lol

 

i hate gauges behind the steering wheel

i shouldn't have to move my hands or adjust my head to see the cluster...in the center its in clear & plain view

 

yeah it really bothers me... if there are any ions showing up sunday at the meet, ill have to jump in and check it out.

 

There are Talks about having the Asta XRV Stateside. I drove one of the 3 door XR that they have now, and I've also had an XRV when i was in Germany on a business trip. I would trade my cobalt in on one of those in a heart beat. The handling was amazing and the power was spot on for the car. The state side version isn't very different from the Eurospec, which is a good thing.