A Saturn Sky With an Identity Crisis
Satillac? Caditurn? We didn’t think much of this everyday-looking Saturn Sky when we passed by it in the shopping district of downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but a closer look reveals that this Sky roadster is actually wearing Cadillac badges.
Not only did the owner of this Sky decide to slap Caddy badges on the little Saturn, they even went so far as to add Cadillac's Buick's signature portholes to each side. However, this owner added two portholes too many—Cadillac Buick's cars have one porthole for each cylinder, and the GM Sky/Solstice twins house four-cylinder powerplants under their hoods. A peak inside the car also revealed Cadillac badges on the steering wheel, too, though we were unable to get photographic proof.
Does this act of re-badging mean that some Sky owner is wishing that Cadillac would offer a small roadster? Or was the XLR just too expensive? Have your say in comments.
Comments
The Fuj
Cadillac's do not have port holes like this. AFAICT these are port holes from a Buick Lacrosse (and probably crappy aftermarket ones).
AutoJournalist (really)
Steven J. Ewing's photos of the badge-altered Saturn Sky (not surprising in La) shows a well-executed Cadillacization by someone seeking to impress someone - most likely themselves.
More and more these days, drivers will go to any length to impress by tarting up their vehicles. Ergo 4-door sedans with faux convertible tops (mostly seniors in the sun-belt states - or gangsta wanna-be's), spinners on compacts (Neons, Civics etc).
However, Ewing got it wrong with the comment about 'Cadillac’s signature portholes'. The 'portholes' in his pictures are a Buick hallmark, seen on the current Enclave, Lucerne, Lacrosse etc. These faux holes are available (sadly) in ads in major car magazines (including the one I occassionaly write for), on the internet, Pep-Boys etc.
Cadillac has a version of 'vents' on the CTS, Escalade, SRX, etc which harken back to vents used in the past. Other functional vents are on LandRovers, Jags, etc.
AJ
Steven J. Ewing
Indeed you are correct. I realized that I made this error after proofreading this post a few times. No worries, however, the change has been made.
Thanks for the comment!
Steven J. Ewing
Production Assistant
Winding Road / NextAutos.com
christomapher
Actually, portholes date back to the 40s and 50s from Buick, not just from their current model offerings. Useless information yes, but good to know if you actually care about accuracy.
Not Your Father's Oldsmobile
My father said that back in the day when Buicks used to have real portholes, these were conveniently placed receptacles for male bladder relief. My father died a few years ago, so I can't ask him if points were awarded for either style or accuracy.
Whudatid
Now I've seen it all. Bad enough bros are sticking buick powts on everything they drive, now some idiot lowlife had to deface a perfectly good SKY. Deah be goin' yo trade-in balyoo, sho nuff. I bet the driver wears a bootoof on BOTH ears. I'm only suprised that they didn't put spinners on the car. Hopefully the owner of this car gets so publicly humiliated it never defaces another car like this again. Then again, maybe this is a clever attempt to disguise this car from the repo-man.
Michael
That SKY needs to be taken up to the SKY and be let to free fall :P all the way down to the GROUND.
Jeff
That is just the tip of the iceburg. Check this site out. www.molestedcars.com
"Just because you read the manual doesn't mean you can drive the car."
Anonymous
OMG - it is bad enough that some fools try to pass these cars off as European with rebadging them as Opel GTs (which by the way are NOT European - because they ARE made in the USA on the same line but in smaller numbers).
I guess the only thing worse would have been rebadging it as some sort of POS ricer.
Donald
The owner of this Sky probably thought his car was nicer looking than the XLR.
As far as the interior goes, he might not be wrong.
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