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I am not sure why it is worth dying on this hill of insisting the Saturns used 100% plastic bodies. They were always steel on the horizontals and plastic on the verticals.
In regards to collectability, I would guess the Sky is the only vehicle that has a chance. It is unique, desirable, and made in low volume.
In terms of plastic panels, the Saturns were always plastic on the vertical panels and steel on the horizontal.
"The SL (and SC) models used a steel spaceframe from which polymer body panels were suspended. The trunk, roof and hood were also formed from steel, but the spaceframe design was supposed to make styling updates simpler for the division." https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2013/1...991-saturn-sl/
I can go online and find a steel replacement OE hood for a 1st generation Saturn SL.
Only the Corvette and Fiero were ever made with 100% plastic bodies.
The Sky is not plastic either. It has your typical plastic bumpers, but otherwise the body is primarily steel. Made through hydroforming the body panels instead of traditional stamped steel.
"will any model Saturn ever be considered classic, and appreciate in value"
here's a quote:
Perhaps the biggest problem facing the collector’s car market is the lack of collectors.The ultra-expensive vehicles by far have found their biggest audience in baby boomers, who owned 58% of the nation’s nearly 5 million collectible cars in 2014. But that number has little—if any—room to grow, as the boomers age out of the population. (The latest census showed one-fifth of the country will be 65 or older by 2030.) And their descendants don’t seem willing to pick up where they left off
IIRC the rear glass was over $1000 to replace. Because of its weird curve/design.
Its quirky design choices like this that can often doom a car to the junkyard. Because who wants to spend more than a car is even worth to replace glass?
IIRC the rear glass was over $1000 to replace. Because of its weird curve/design.
Its quirky design choices like this that can often doom a car to the junkyard. Because who wants to spend more than a car is even worth to replace glass?
It shared that design with the Cutlass Supreme sedan.
No they were just a plastic panel sedan with a 4 banger engine, just like a Chevrolet cavalier, or a Pontiac sunbird nothing special about them. You can call Saturn a Roger Smith blunder one of the worst GM CEO’S GM ever had Saturn was one of GM divisions to go under because sales never took off as GM thought they would.
Either your total bias against anything not a Ford is talking and/or you never owned a Saturn and have no idea what you're talking about.
Saturns, with a few exceptions in the later years, were designed, produced, sold, and serviced by Saturn exclusively and separately from GM corporate.
Saturns were never anything like a Chevrolet Cavalier or Pontiac Sunbird and to say otherwise goes beyond merely stating an opinion to being virtually devoid of any factual accuracy.
Unlike conventional auto bodies, Saturn`s fenders, hood, trunk lid and door panels are made of a tough, yet lightweight, plastic. Saturn officials say there are a number of reasons they abandoned steel in favor of plastic.Nov 25, 1990
Wrong again.
The hood, trunk lid, and roof were all made of steel in order to pass the mandated crash tests.
Saturn did ok when they offered what people wanted in that market: inexpensive fuel misers. I had two Saturns, an SL base model, and an SL2. They cost next to nothing to fuel up, and would go 40 miles on a gallon of gas. Their downfall started when they got rid of the S-series and started to go for the mid-size car and SUV market—things they could already get from every other car maker.
If they ever wanted to make another S-series, I'd buy one in a heartbeat. Both of my Saturns went well over 200,000 miles. Cheap, reliable, and easy to work on. You can't ask for much better than that.
Spot on.
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.
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