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What if you took a Kappa platform from GM, replaced some of the metal body panels with composite, and dropped a 400 HP LS2 V8 under the hood? Not only would you get the Kappa everyone wants, but you'd have a Breckland Beira straight from the isle of Great Britain. In addition to looking the part and having more than adequate grunt to back it up, the Beira can also be fueled with liquefied petroleum (LP) gas — though we don't know if it will make the claimed 0-60 in under 5 seconds on the grill gas. All pretty nice, but it had better be for £55,000, or right about $108,000 for us Yanks. Um. Okay, maybe it isn't
that nice.
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Who says the Germans are always hung up on Bruce? Sure, the press release we just received from German tuning house Irmscher says
"Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail" at the bottom; but the body of the message has an entirely different tone. Forget the standard weaksauce Ecotec 4-pot; it seems the German hordes have realized they coulda had a V8 in their Opel GT. So Irmscher is releasing their version of the wee little roadster made off the same assembly line as our Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice with a 480 PS (473 HP) 6.0-liter V8 of unspecified origin. We're sure the German Green Party will totally be happy. Full press release with all the hilarious German-English translation errors — like
"V8 Power to be enjoyed" — after the jump. We're just going to sit here and dream of a V8 crammed between the rails of a Saturn Sky. Don't mind us.
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The story of child star Gary Coleman took another sad turn last month as the former star of
Diff'rent Strokes was unable to unload his 2007 Saturn Sky Convertible. In fact, there wasn't even a single bidder or another offer. Even more depressing, he only asked for $25,000, which isn't an outrageous price for the car given the condition (here's a similar
Saturn Sky with no child star connection at the same price). The car even came with a Gary Coleman autograph. Vehicle description below the jump:
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