Thank god, with the exception of the Sky and the Astra.

The rest was a bunch of poorly "styled" cookie cutter shit.

The SC2 "3-door" coupe was ugly as sin, but pretty fast considering. Same with the Ion "Red line" coupe.

Kinda ironic the latest vehicle they ever came out with was called the Outlook!

Apparently the outlook wasn't too good... heh

back in the early 90's when Saturn really started to catch on, their cars really were trouble free import alternatives. My friend Pauls' family had a their Tercel blow up in Ohio and they bought a 92 Saturn SL2 (the fully loaded DOHC sedan) on the road. It was white, 5-speed, 1.9 DOHC. His father's commute was about 120 miles a day. John drove that car for almost ten years before the engine started to burn too much oil... that was at 280,000 miles. He found a junkyard engine with maybe 45,000 miles on it and the Saturn dealer in South Burlington VT swapped the engine for him, for nothing. Seriously. He was on their hall of fame mileage wall... when he totalled the car swerving to miss a deer (ironic, no?), the car was at 330,000 miles... and still looked like a fairly new car. They bought another Saturn to replace it. They traded in his wife's car for a new Saturn sedan. Their other son Adam purchased a new Saturn back in 01 or 02 and he still has the car. Paul even bought a Saturn to replace his rather battered Metro.

my friend Victor has an 01 Saturn SC2 that he races... for a 1.9 DOHC, it's pretty peppy. If you hit up youtube and streetfire, there are guys out there making stupid power out of these DOHC engines with turbos.

it's a shame that this brand was so mismanaged. their core was to sell cars to compete against Honda, Toyota and Nissan... they were positioned as a cheaper, trouble free alternative... and then, poof... the clone wars. Badge engineering was a bad idea in the 80's, 90's and guess what, now. All manufacturers are guilty of it, but GM never figured out to make them look different enough to sell.

and now, well now, they are a memory.

Posted by Samurai my friend Victor has an 01 Saturn SC2 that he races

Where does he live? I know a guy with a turbo Saturn down here in SoCal and he races it in time attacks.

my neighbor just sent her first generation staurn to the junker, (and it only fetched 40$) it ran great till the end, had cool out of the ordinary styling for the time, and still looked great, although the body was rotten out and unsafe! i liked that car

Posted by big dave Where does he live? I know a guy with a turbo Saturn down here in SoCal and he races it in time attacks.

over the mountain from me in Witherbee NY.
he does road racing

GM I think instead of just flat out mis-managed the brand, just simply forgot about it. I think GM should of spun off Saturn back in 2000 when they had a chance.

Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! my neighbor just sent her first generation staurn to the junker, (and it only fetched 40$) it ran great till the end, had cool out of the ordinary styling for the time, and still looked great, although the body was rotten out and unsafe! i liked that car

plastic doesn't recycle for as much as metal. =P

I'll miss Saturn. I loved the SL1 that was the shop car I learned how to do brakes and suspension work on. Fun little car to do burnouts with in the student parking lot.