A 1993 model Saturn? Which one? That was pretty early in the Saturn line. Nevertheless, a brand new line of cars, and a manual transmission lasts for over 230,000 miles, well that is pretty good, all by itself. An average of 23,000 miles a year is pretty high milage.
Sounds to me like you got a good car, Peter... Are you going to replace it, or have you already? keith Peter Alling wrote: > > Auto-tranny, no way, I like to have control over my machines, not the other way > around. Ten years and 230,000 miles and the damned thing just came apart. > Then don't build them like they used to, and its a good thing too... > > At 02:00 PM 10/12/03, you wrote: > >Automatic tranny? > >I only have 1/10 the miles on my 4 year old SW-2 Saturn wagon, but it's > >a stick with a 5 speed tranny. > >I'm still very well pleased with the quality and - so far - durability. > >I've owned foreign sports cars, and later coupes and sports sedans since > >1956, far preferring the handling and performance over U.S. designed and > >built machines. > >I'm pleased to say I recognize and appreciate the vast improvement in > >most American cars in the intervening period... > >My Saturn handles very like a fine European or Japanese sports sedan. > >It's appointed like they used to be, not cheap and cheesy like the > >American iron used to be, years ago. > >Also, I've noticed the same attention to detail and reliability for > >other U.S. made cars in the last 4 to 5 years. > >American-made cars deserve the new attention they're getting. They've > >made vast strides. > > > >I still want to hear about that tranny! <g> > > > >keith whaley > > > >Peter Alling wrote: > > > > > > My Saturn went approximately 230,000 statute miles that's 370,149 KM for > > > the those impaired by > > > using the Metric system. My mechanic congratulated me by the way, not the > > > for extraordinary mileage > > > but the way the tranny destroyed itself, his exact words were, "I've only > > > seen BMW's hand-grenade like that!" > > I drink to make other people interesting. > -- George Jean Nathan
