I too looked at the saturn and pontiac before my crossfire but I ended up with a base model crossfire coupe because the price was right and I was able to extend the factory warranty to 96,000 miles.

My opinion of the sky turbo was that it was a fun car decent looks but crummy interior (even compared to my base coupe). If I had to do it over again I would probobly by the saturn over a base coupe but definately not over an srt. My only reasoning is that I enjoy modding cars and chrysler's warranty is too strict.
With the soltice and sky you can spend a mere $650.00 and bump your torque up to 340ft lbs and retain your factory warranty , not to mention the ecotec motor is extremely easy to build while the crossfire's tuning is very complicated. Once you install the LNF upgrade the engine will automatically retune when other modifications are made....no need for a reflash .

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