> The Saturn division originally built very good little cars, a great > first cut on subcompacts. GM simply starved them of money until they > could be made over in the image of the parent company. Now Saturns are > just plastic clad GM extrusions. They build keepers but the fish keeps > rotting from the head...
My dad got one of the very first Saturn coupes in California, and for the rest of the '90s my little brothers and I were big Saturn fans (we were young and impressionable, what can I say). Every year we went to the San Francisco International Auto Show, and I saw the evolution of the Saturn brand from the beginning. When GM started drawing them in closer, they just went downhill. Quality, looks, everything. The only interesting & unique thing Saturn has put out this decade was the 2001 special edition yellow coupe, which I thought was just beautiful, especially with the black & yellow leather interior. My mom got one, but with plain black cloth interior (boooooring). The other product of theirs that I like is the Sky roadster, but it's just another GM clone, like the rest of Saturn's cars now. I was very sad when my dad sold his little red Saturn, but it was getting old and he needed something he could haul gardening supplies with. Now he's driving a Honda CR-V, and I suspect future car purchases that my parents make will be Japanese as well. My parents just don't trust the American car companies anymore. Me, I'd give anything for a new Dodge Challenger. John Celio The Saturn Score: Dad: original '91 SC-1 Coupe, now drives a Honda CR-V Mom: 2001 yellow special edition SC-2 Bro 1: 2000 (?) SL-2 Bro 2: 2004/5 Ion Me: yet to own a Saturn, much less drive one. My family's cars are all manual transmission, which I don't drive well enough to risk ruining a clutch or two. Plus, I'm not a GM fan, and currently loathe my little Chevy. Case in point: http://www.neovenator.com/2008/01/is-time-to-bitch.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
