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My mom had a 1994 SL1 that had over 349,000 miles on it when she sold it 7-8 years ago.
She still regrets that decision.
So do I.
My sister had a ‘94 SL1, and that’s the car I took my drivers test in when I turned 16. Man was that thing slow with its 85 horsepower. I think it’s the slowest car I have ever driven.
Saturn is mostly a badge engineering brand it never produced a serious or extremely popular car. In the old days they made it to compete with Honda and Toyotas when they were budget cars and then the Japanese surpassed domestics in quality and reliability. Saturn basically retained the budget car brand. When GM tried to save Saturn, it was too late.
How can it have hail damage when it’s suspose to be a plastic body that’s was Saturns selling point they had a commercial showing a shopping cart hitting a Saturn in a parking lot a did no damage to the Saturn.
Hail can damage plastics too.
A freak hailstorm here blew hailstones through vinyl siding on houses all over town this spring, and blew holes through vinyl fencing.
My car is all metal, and I just got it back from the body shop. It's a new 2018 that I bought as soon as the model year changed last year, and while I always garage it, on that day, I had it backed up to the garage to unload some things out of it.
The storm hit so suddenly and ferociously, I didn't want to go out and get smacked around by the hail to pull the car into the garage. The hail caused $8700 worth of damage to the body in less than 5 minutes.
It was in the body shop for almost 2 weeks, but it looks brand-new now.
I thought that any vehicle that was 20 years old became "classic". Now whether its value will increase or it will become a desirable is not guaranteed.
I would say the Sky along with its twin the Solstice might, but I don’t think there was much love for them when they were new.
My mom had a 1994 SL1 that had over 349,000 miles on it when she sold it 7-8 years ago.
She still regrets that decision.
So do I.
Those plastic body panels were great up here in Maine. The stuff they put on the roads to melt snow kills sheet metal, but the Saturns still looked good even after 10 years on the road.
Today's vehicles will likely not become "classic cars" in 15 or 20 years, because once the electronic brains die they will quite likely no longer be drive-able, due to a complete lack of parts!
There is a Saturn SUV ("Vue") I see parked on my street from time to time.
I don't know what year it is, but it's better looking than nearly all of today's
compact SUVs.
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