At the 2004 North American International Auto Show, Saturn debuted two sports car concepts based on GM’s new Kappa Platform. One was the concept for the open-top Sky—which later went into production—and the other was this, the hardtop Curve.
Designed by Michael Mauer, head of design at Saab at the time, the Curve was powered by a supercharged 2.2-liter Ecotec …
It looks like if Bugatti made a small entry level car.
NickD said:It looks like if Bugatti made an RX-8.
Sure looks a lot like the Saab Aero X concept, but uglier:
I want more gated shifters to make it from concept into production. I fully get why not, but I love them dammit.
In reply to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :
Both were owned by GM :)
They were very wise not to have taken that to market. When they did offer a coupe version of the Kappa it looked one heck of a lot better than that! I suspect that they might have eventually brought out a Saturn version if GM hadn't gone off the rails just weeks after the Solstice coupe hit the dealers
At least their prototype for a Saturn Nomad was less lumpy, but I think it was a good idea to shelve that one too.
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