Before anyone gets their knickers in a bunch, that’s obviously sarcasm, an achievement such as this is to be celebrated, not mocked, no matter who the manufacturer is. As an early Saturn, being a new car with a new engine in a new plant it’s even more impressive. I see a surprising number of cars with well under 100,000 miles in the junkyard, numbers starting with 1 and 2 are the norm, 3 as the lead is not really uncommon, a 4 though is rare unless a heavy truck, but anything over 500,000 especially in a car is extremely rare, in fact this is the first I’ve come across that I can recall. I even wiped the sweat out of my eyes as I thought it was a five digit odometer at first and had to look twice to be sure.
556,016 miles is the distance to the moon and back with another 88,000 miles on top of that. I won’t make you wait for the money shot, here it is! The gauge cluster isn’t bad overall either, no blank spots on this model (or any model for that matter) which was certainly an improvement.
This car stems from Saturn’s second model year, but it’s a fairly early one and is the SL1 trim level. There was an SL(no number) base model below it but the only differences were in the seat cloth and the fact that it did not have power steering. The brochure was inconclusive as to which seat cloth was which compared to what’s in this one but the power steering reservoir is visible in my pictures below so an SL1 it is. The SL2 had a DOHC engine and body colored bumpers along with lots of other differences.
Amazingly this car looks in very good condition. While the majority of the body panels are plastic, the paint in general has held up quite well over the years and distance. Those black things under the headlights are remnants of deer whistle devices, to whose efficacy I cannot speak. The white nose cone on this one has been repainted (poorly) at least once, though.
556,016 miles is more than 22 times around the world. But the badge still looks good! This logo I found to be one of the more inspired ones of the 90’s and would still look good today if there was a car it could adorn. The materials used to create it seemed better too than the usual plastichrome garbage across the rest of the GM divisions.
There was no badging on the rear of the first versions of Saturns, just the embossed name in the plastic bumper. But that was okay, with the huge ad blitz that GM put on, everyone seemed to know what a Saturn was. Just nobody knew what it would (or better, should) become, least of all GM.
556,016 miles is 185 times the distance across the United States. Saturn was of course GM’s attempt to out-import the imports by thinking differently and beating them at their own game somehow. Of course why that couldn’t just have happened at any (or better yet, all) of the existing divisions is a question for the ages. Let’s just keep building crap as usual but this one special new division we’ll throw money at and have them do what we should have been doing all along. So off to Spring Hill, Tennessee it was and a new factory was built to shovel out a new range of cars.
These cars were then sold at Saturn dealerships which introduced no-haggle pricing to the American consumer with a promise to not use the typical dealer sales tactics. And it was sort of a success (at first, kind of, besides the unfortunate fact that many buyers were already GM buyers and not turning in their Hondas and Toyotas). Saturn people seemed to be just as evangelical about their cars as Prius people were a decade later and Tesla people seem to be now. The difference is that Saturn kind of dead-ended and wasn’t really any different in the end since the same people were still in charge whereas the Prius has turned hybrids into accepted normality all over the world and Tesla has been spearheading a whole new paradigm and more or less turning the traditional auto industry on its head. As we all know, lots of owners even trekked down to Spring Hill for huge Saturn get-togethers at the plant. Some of them weren’t aware they owned a GM car.
556,016 miles is 14,632 gallons of gasoline at the Saturn SL1’s highway fuel economy rating of 38mpg. The SL and SL1 used a SOHC cam 1.9-liter engine producing a not very impressive for the size 85hp at 5000rpm at the time along with 107lb-ft of torque at 2400rpm. The SL was paired exclusively with a 5-speed manual, but the SL1 could also be had with an automatic (4-speed).
The power steering reservoir is there at the back left defining this as an SL1. That’s quite the lump there to be able to make it this far. Kudos. While apparently durable, these were still quite a bit rougher in operation than what most of the Japanese imports were installing in their engine bays.
556,016 miles is actually an average of about 20,000 miles per year since this car was built which is not significantly above the average driver’s annual mileage, especially in Wyoming. There is a note underhood about an oil change at 510,000 miles in 2013, which at that point would have equated to 24,285 miles per year. The round trip distance between Cheyenne and Laramie is exactly 100 miles, so that could be a commute for every working day in the year minus a couple of weeks of staycation. Perhaps the owner retired around the time of this oil change and that explains the lower mileage accumulation since.
Of course that particular commute means a change in elevation from 6063 feet to 7165 feet while crossing an 8200 or so foot pass and can be very treacherous in the winter. Perhaps there was a set of Nokian snow tires on the factory steelies and that’s why it came into this yard on space savers.
556,016 miles is 8554 hours (356 nonstop days) of driving at the 65mph speed limit in force in most states in 1992. Still, there’s barely any rust on this thing, none on the top side (it’s not ALL plastic panels, just the sides and ends), and minimal on the underside.
556,016 miles brings the cost per mile for the car purchase down to 1.6 cents per mile which is exceptional, plus operating expenses of course. And the first year and a half was with a full warranty (3year, 36,000 mile bumper to bumper). This car listed at $8,995, but air conditioning (which this car has) was an optional extra. Curiously so was any radio with a cassette but this buyer decided to stick with radio only, which would be harsh for that much driving out in the Wyoming area. As would driving around without any way to adjust where the air is directed since that knob is missing, presumably after the bumper to bumper warranty expired. But otherwise the HVAC controls are clear and easy to figure out.
The knob for the standard 5-speed certainly seems to show the correct amount of wear. I’d probably take up smoking too if I drove this car for this long, anything to take my mind off things besides a staticky radio.
556,016 miles is more than I’d want to drive this car for but I’d say that of any car. I have to assume that there were floormats in this car during its lifetime, that carpet is way too clean and undamaged for there not to have been. The pedal covers are obviously worn and the clutch one is missing; worn to dust, or it just fell off. I don’t know if I’d choose this over a Mitsubishi or a Nissan of the era, but almost certainly over a Cavalier.
The driver’s seat bottom still looks great but the seatback has been replaced with one from an SL2 model, I’m assuming based on the plusher fabric. And the passenger’s has a cover on it.
All manual here, baby! Locks, windows, even the mirror. At one point someone re-padded the armrest and look at the pullgrip, that is showing a bit of wear. However the door panel is still on the car, not too shabby.
I think these earlier interiors were better and more attractive than the later ones, they seem more competitive at least, later they just started to look even more plasticky and sort of malformed, as if the funding started to dry up or something…oh, wait! And it’s a glorious shade of blue as well.
The cushion looks sort of low and the back support seems minimal but I’ve never been in the back of one of these that I can recall. At least it has sort of headrests.
At some point in ownership I guess you just break out the Sharpie to note when the last oil change was done. With this many miles on it, I wouldn’t trust anyone else to do it right either.
My decoder website tells me that even though this is stickered as an October car, it rolled off the line on November 4th of 1991. Which, lo and behold, was a Monday! Maybe they didn’t get hangovers at the Spring Hill plant.
I’m impressed with this car, and its owner. This is in far better shape than many I see with half or even a quarter of the miles; I suppose if you take care of your car, it will take care of you.
The single-overhead-cam engine in this car seemed to stay on roads longer than the oil-munching DOHC version I had in my coupe 20 years ago. These were very well-screwed-together compared to the Cavalier, very easy to work on (we replaced a clutch without lifting the engine out!), and I remember the handling and transmission being pretty sprightly. My SC2 didn’t get past 140,000 though (probably due to my teenaged maintenance ineptitude).
It was weird how Saturn’s marketing skipped over model names, I wonder how many Saturn drivers could even distinguish “SC1, SL2”, etc. I really do believe brand recognition would be more successful if everything got a real name. Looking at you, Lincoln/Cadillac.
Umm…New Lincolns and new electric Cadillacs have real names.
https://www.caranddriver.com/lincoln
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a31225540/cadillac-ev-lyriq-celestiq/
“I really do believe brand recognition would be more successful if everything got a real name. Looking at you, Lincoln/Cadillac.”
Putting aside for a moment that new Lincolns and Cadillacs do have “real names”, the point of them going to alphanumeric names was to increase brand recognition.
Excellent find and report. As you implied, ultra high mileage cars are a testament to the care of the owner, as much as the car. A meticulous owner can help make most cars last for many years, and high miles. They generally don’t abuse their cars, and appear to consistently practice preventative maintenance. Thanks for this.
My dad started using synthetic oil in the 70s, and generally had long-lived engines. His main rationale was less wear in extremely cold and hot weather, and the benefits paid off. From his example, I’ve always used synthetic, and I think it was a major reason a couple cars went to almost 200,000 miles from new. With no serious engine issues, including a Chrysler 2.2 litre. I wouldn’t be surprised if this Saturn ran on synthetic.
My dad switched to synthetic in 1989. The only oil-lubricated part that failed on any of our family’s cars after that date was the timing chain on an Olds 350 that was already 16 when started on synthetic. We’ve never kept stuff past about 200,000 as a rule, but 3 vehicles have solidly gotten there without breaking heavy metal bits.
Very impressive find, and nicely written!
If it rolled off the line on Monday during the day, they started building it on Friday.
I estimate I’ve driven a total of 630,000 miles in my entire life. About 20k of it in a 95 SL2, sedan which I bought used in 95 and sold after 14 months–to a Saturn dealer, no trade.
While I liked the handling and fuel economy, I could not have lived with this car for 100k miles, let alone 500k.
Still, it is impressive, and this anecdote seems to confirm my impression that these were robust, though not refined, cars.
Impressive. Obviously a committed long-term owner. Of course we don’t know if a younger engine was swapped in at some point. That’s not to say it isn’t possible for it to be the original engine.
The reality is that internal engine wear on modern cars is drastically lower than it once was, thanks to fuel injection and modern manufacturing processes and materials. And of course continuous highway miles are much less demanding than occasional city driving.
The question regarding modern cars is: how many end up being junked because the internal engine components actually wore out? Versus so many other things that make it expedient to junk a car?
Early Saturn owners were known to be a bit fanatical. I imagine that was the case here; someone really took a shine to it, and decided this was their long-term driver, and treated it accordingly, and repaired what needed to be repaired. And as I said earlier, possibly swapped in a more youthful engine at some point.
A terrific find and testament that GM was the master at building cockroaches of the road.
“The question regarding modern cars is: how many end up being junked because the internal engine components actually wore out? Versus so many other things that make it expedient to junk a car?”
You almost never see evidence of major internal engine failures on the road nowadays. Three in particular used to be failure common- 1) Tailpipes blowing out black smoke. 2) Cars with so little compression they couldn’t keep up with traffic. 3) Rods knocking as a car rolled past in a parking lot.
Based on that, I’d have to say internal engine failures are now few and far between.
I’d guess the two most common reasons to junk a car are transmission failures and blown head gaskets, both high dollar fixes that equal or exceed the car’s book value.
I’d probably put timing belts up there as well, as they generally aren’t a cheap maintenance item either.
Saturns had chains, not belts. “They don’t wear or break” said the commercials.
Yeah , I’d include timing belt failures on interference engines. A belt replacement should be relatively inexpensive, but a broken belt often results in a head job, greatly driving up the costs.
It’s really common to find the factory cross hatching in the cylinders in modern high mileage engines, most wear you’ll find inside one is seals as long as oil was kept in it and not neglected. Most common mechanical failure that will send a car to a junkyard instead of repair is a bad transmission, or a list of other issues like needing a suspension rebuild or the catalytic converters are clogged, a persistent check engine light in emissions counties etc. when the cars there are at the bottom of their depreciation and old it’s just not worth putting money into them for most people or used car businesses.
Years ago a friend of mine hit a bind and had to buy a beater quick, and he got a rusty late 90’s civic coupe for $450. He did a synthetic change and coolant change immediately, hoping to get thru at least one winter. At well over 300k it had to be junked three years later because something in the suspension rusted out. Mechanically it ran like a top. Another friend right now has a ‘98 Corolla that runs great at just over 200k but is being eaten away from the bottom. Here in MN that still claims quite a few vehicles.
I had a valve fail on a 22R Toyota at 235k but that was built 33 years ago so might not count as modern. Had a friend’s 22R do the same at 240k. The only other engine failure I had was a main bearing on a 2001 3.0 H6 Subaru. right around 150k miles. Which is a modern engine and frankly soured me on Subies.
Other then that I think Transmissions and upper end engine problems (head gaskets valves timing chains belts) send most cars to their grave, well and rust.
I’d have been terribly saddened as the owner to see this car go off to the scrapyard. In a way I hope the poor guy has passed on (probably likely or he might still be adding mileage).
I got a ’93 Saab 9000 up to 336,000, but I was the second owner, and repair and maintenance receipts from my ownership and the woman I bought it from might very well have exceeded her original purchase price. Still, I took it as a personal challenge to get it to go as far as I could before finally giving up. After it was towed off to the little independent Saab dealer I traded in to, I had the sad misfortune of seeing it on a lift being scavenged for parts when I went to take delivery of its replacement. I could have cried.
I should ad that the car I reference above did have an engine transplant at just over 200,000. Just weeks before I bought it.
My wife and I have had five Saturns.
This was because my father in law worked as a Mr. Goodwrench at an Olds dealer for decades and we weren’t to consider anything but a GM car. No way would we have bought one of those Cavaliers or Sunbirds. Saturn was our choice.
The car wasn’t cheap, but it never let us down either. The service at the garage was outstanding and as you can probably guess by the number of Saturns we bought, the dealership was terrific and kept us moving up into bigger Saturns as our family grew from two to three to five to six. Our last Saturn was a VUE 3 which was a great van that easily cost $10-15000 cheaper than our friends’ Oddyseys, but outlasted them with fewer repairs. What repairs there were were cheap GM repairs at that.
The 2001 SLW2 I had went through three transmissions. Saturn paid for the first two and the warranty expired when I had the third one installed. No body damage for any of them.
The Saturns were not refined. They steadily added sound proofing to the SL line over the decade and that helped. The first generation VUE we owned had a loud Opel engine that sounded rough, but never gave us any problems. The VUE seemed very boxy and plasticky, but my wife loved it very much and to this days says it was her favorite car.
I know some guys like to roll their eyes when discussing a Saturn, but I actually have real life experiences owning many of them, and we would still have a Saturn in our garage if they were still available.
The Vue was a CUV. Funny that you compare it to a Honda though because first gen Vue red-lines sourced a Honda motor.
The Relay was Saturn’s minivan and had no Honda motors available.
There was a Saturn minivan, but it was called the Relay. Saturn sold the Relay from 2005 through 2007, and it was the sort of indifferent attempt that led to GM ceding the market to Fiat, Honda, and Toyota.
I see that now you mentioned the Relay I need to keep my reading glasses more handy.
I seem to recall reading that some Vue’s used the Honda V6 with GM transmission, and some used the GM 3.1 with a Honda transmission. Strange bedfellows …
Around here in Rustville (heavy trucks aside) I only see this kind of mileage in Lincoln Town Cars, as former commercial limos and taxi applications. I wonder if this car had a money making aspect to its mileage. Its difficult to imagine a person squeezing that kind of mileage in a personal vehicle where the extreme wear and tear is a reflection of the cheapness of the owner.
But, if it’s making money for the owner there’s impersonal justification for putting up with the wear and deterioration. I’m a cheap, parsimonious bastard, but even I lack the attention span to put that much mileage on one car unless I’m paid to do so. Too boring.
Most vehicles are able to travel vastly greater distances than they do. The usual reasons are not understanding what is required to properly maintain a vehicle, fear of the cost so doing nothing and, rather strangely, hoping the issue will go away, and so on.
I have known many people who simply stop taking even the most basic care of an older vehicle, and when it gives up the ghost, of course attribute it to age and miles, not neglect.
And I’ve bought the results. About half of my fleet was bought for pennies because the previous owner took a “drive it into the ground ” mentality, or refused to fix a simple problem. I find brakes, tie rods and ball joints are the most common areas of neglect, all easily fixed. If they dump the car because it’s not running well, inevitably I trace it to a bad ignition coil.
Here’s something to think about – the people who neglect basic maintenance, ignore problems and generally take little care of their cars probably treat their own bodies in much the same way.
I would hate to be on the secondhand market for a body – there are some people who look after their bodies, but observation suggests that there are a whole lot more who eat badly, smoke, don’t take exercise etc etc. And then there’s all the liars on the secondhand market as well. Luckily it doesn’t seem to be an option just yet to buy a secondhand body, but who knows what the future may hold!
Oil munching DOHC? My ’96 SL2 didn’t use a drop between changes. Ran Mobil 1 oil. changed every 4K. 290K miles before it got wrecked. Use the wrong oil (too thick) in a performance engine, it will overwhelm the thin low tension piston rings. Not the engines fault. Operator error.
I too wonder if this is the original engine, as that’s seriously impressive mileage for that engine. I bought a used example for a daughter, and it was a serious oil burner (which they were known for). The only car that I’d be more surprised at having an original engine at that mileage is a Vega. Good on the owner for keeping this going and in relatively good shape!
Modern engines are a marvel of reliability..
If not the original engine, I wonder at what point it would have made sense to invest in it for a different one…Figure if the engine dying did cause this to get junked (of which there really isn’t evidence, it could have been anything, even perhaps the owner’s passing and nobody wanting a running manual transmission car with this many miles on it), then that’d be an average of almost 280k miles per engine (still very good) – however it’s doubtful someone would have put a NEW engine in at 280k. If it was a used engine then it would have more total miles than 280k on it now or the original one lasted longer than that already. Assuming of course there wasn’t more than one replacement engine here.
It may be possible the owner had the means to replace the engine themselves, at which point it would be the cost of the replacement engine (probably not too bad) and time.
Of course, I’ve also invested in expensive repairs in otherwise older low value cars if I like the car, it is still in good shape (as this car is), and other than the issue requiring the repair is still mechanically sound. It can even make financial sense in a way – a $1000 repair can make more sense than taking that $1000 + the scrap value of the car and trying to find a replacement for that kind of money that doesn’t also need some work.
With that said, given the good care this car appears to have gotten, there’s a pretty decent chance that is the original engine.
My first car was identical to this one, except mine had the tan interior. It was purchased new for me as a graduation present, as my grandparents didn’t like the thought of me commuting to university in a used car. I didn’t complain. I actually kept the car for 7 years, trading it in at 260k kms. The only major repairs were a broken rocker arm (warranty) and it needed a new clutch at 200k kms or so.
I still miss that thing. With good snow tires, it was like a tank through the snow. I remember driving home on a remote highway one winter night with snow drifts so deep, they were blowing over the hood of the car as I went through them. No one passed me that night. I felt like the snowplow.
About 10 years later, I bought a second hand 1998 SL2 as a second vehicle. It was more powerful, but it just couldn’t match my 92 SL1.
My dad and sister both had early 90s SL1s, both bought in used in 1996 from the local Saturn dealer.
My dad used his 1994 SL1 to commute back and forth to work about 70 miles round trip. My dad’s lasted about 130,000 miles before it started leaving a cloud of smoke everywhere it went and it went to the junkyard. They figured it wasn’t worth fixing and went down to a one vehicle household at that point since he was nearing retirement.
My sister’s 1993 SL1 on the other hand not only lasted through all of her schooling, but was finally junked out last year after sitting too long after they got a second car, causing a number of issues not worth fixing. Her speedometer quit working at ~280k miles which was sometime in the early 2000s. I would imagine that hers had well in excess of 300,000 miles on it when it finally went to the junkyard. That’s pretty exceptional considering it spent 99% of its life in the salty upper Midwest.
I never cared for driving my dad’s SL1. I thought it felt cheap and was very noisy. My mom’s ’95 Escort wagon was no luxury vehicle by any means, in fact as everyone knows, it’s just the opposite, but I preferred that one by far due to the overall feel of the vehicle if I wasn’t driving my own truck.
I was thinking after seeing this how I haven’t seen one of these Saturns in ages but CC effect struck and I just saw two on the street minutes apart. Perhaps they were still invisible, but they really stand out in traffic now, opposite of how I remember them as a kid, as they were very popular in the Chicago burbs.
The mileage doesn’t surprise me, but it’s impressive, these seemed like vehicles that will keep going for as long as you’ll put up with them and this drivetrain combo is perfect for racking up extensive highway miles. That blue interior would get to me after a while, I lament the loss of color palette but blue interiors in just about anything in the 90s really begins to feel toyish after a while
I enjoyed this really inspired Curbside Recycling piece, with all of the numbers for reference. I’m so conflicted, as I smile at the thought of this Saturn SL1 making it to over 500,000 miles, but remain sad as to how the whole Saturn story played out.
This division was new around the time I was about to leave high school for adulthood, and reading as much as I did then about new cars, I had such high hopes for Saturn. In the back of my mind, I still want to believe Saturn’s mission is still new-ish, alive, and evolving as part of a revitalized GM. A little bit of self-delusion at the end of a Wednesday workday.
It takes a special owner to maintain the commitment this kind of mileage takes. I’ve become much more interested in such things since I inadvertently became the owner of a 2001 Tacoma with 342,000 miles on it. It checks off the boxes for survivorship including a solid original build, rigorous and documented maintenance from a single mechanic its entire life, low owner number (I’m #3), nearly all highway miles in a salt-free mild Northern California climate, and significant residual value. Still, although it runs and drives great, with its original V6 5ve engine and automatic tranny, this truck scares the hell out of me, which obviously means I’m not sure I have what it takes.
That is an impressive mileage accumulation. Ive been to Wyoming many times, and the highways were always smooth as a pool table. Contrast that to the Chicagoland area where I live. The roads here look and feel like a British runway during the Blitz. Since I’ve had many old local cars with 200,000 miles-plus on them, I wonder how that would equate to Wyoming miles. Out there you probably never even need new shock absorbers until they just eventually leak out their oil or gas insides.
I like the OG Saturns. I had a 1994 SC coupe with the DOHC. It was an automatic and much too small for me (my head touched the roof as I am 6′ and 32” inseamed) It handled well and was quite peppy once it got up in the higher revs. By then it made such a cacophony of noises, none of them pleasant, that it sounded like a pile of metal tools in a blender. But it never once broke down on me. At 100,000 miles I traded it for an ’89 Accord LX coupe which ended up being a POS. I really missed the noisy, unsophisticated, crappy-switchgeared, cramped wonderful Saturn. It also got 35 mpg all.the time.
And I still miss the pop-up headlights.
Also, there is no comparing the SOHC and DOHC motors. Not even in the same league.
My experience with a second gen Saturn SL2 and a friend’s 1st gen was that as long as you stayed on top of engine oil consumption and the transaxle didn’t explode they were very durable cars. Mine succumbed to a failed differential after 20 years and 130,000 miles. Even the interior trim plastics held up better than the GM norm since in 2017 our 97 SL2’s plastics were in better shape than our son’s 2003 Buick
We had a 1995 SL2 and sold it with 250,000 or so miles on it. Guess we should have kept it since it was at half-life. I did put about 250 quarts of oil through it, though.
Nope nope nope nope.
I bought a used ’94 Saturn SL2 sedan several years ago. I did diligent research. The owner had the carfax. The car had 71,000 miles on it. It seemed to run well and looked ok.
While it was reliable, it also drank oil like it was going out of style. And it ALWAYS had something wrong with it.
I ended up donating it. I’ve seldom been so glad to see a car leave on a flatbed.
“GM cars run badly longer than most cars run at all.”
My wife bought this ’02 SC2 new (that was the last year for the OG design) and we still have it. DOHC/automatic and it is the original engine and transmission. 330,XXX miles on it. I just drove it 150 miles yesterday and there is literally not one thing wrong with it, not even a rattle. Despite the goats hanging out on it, the paint even still looks good.
As usual, GM ruined a good thing
I really want to know more about your goats!
Even GM managed to screw up timing chains, so buying a vehicle based on having a timing chain vs timing belt is a crap shoot. Thanks to CAD, Computer Aided Disaster.
When I purchased my ’03 VUE the salesman told me the the SL’s and manual VUEs where made to flat tow behind RV’s, since I can’t tell by the pictures if a tow bar was ever hooked to the front of this car, it might explain the high millage of the Saturn.
I drive a 1995 saturn sl1 gold as a daily driver with only 116,000 miles on it. Eventually I’d like to drive it as a second car. Been in the family since 98. My late brother use to drive it about 20 years ago. Memories. Has a slight slippage with the tranny. But still reliable. A/C runs great 🤘. My brother and I recently replaced the evaporator on it 2 months ago. And also the heator core. I’m keeping this and taking good care of it for awhile. I’d like to eventually get a second car. And let it rest for a bit. Wont happen anytime soon. Maybe after I graduate college when I get my masters which will be a few years. But that’s my long term goal with this car. Love it with all my heart. Within the past year. I’ve driven to jupiter, miami, and tamiami. All together each ranging a 1-1:30 hours away from where I live. Been a faithful car. Old pictures of me as a child in it, and when my grandmother drove it RIP.
My $750 “big body” 2003 L200 came from FL, has 110k miles, has plenty of old lady dings on the bumper covers but it doesn’t burn oil and the a/c will freeze you out. I’m working from home and drive it to Kroger on Sunday morning, so unless the Ohio salt eats the underside, it should run a long time.
Saturn was a great idea, which in typical GM fashion, was allowed to wither and die.
For a time, three out of four cars towed behind motor homes was a Saturn. Perhaps this one was towed a lot.
725,000 as of today
I bought a 1995 SL1 over labor day weekend 1994. The 95’s had just rolled off the truck. I was driving a 93 SL1. With the drop in interest rates I was able to step up to the 95. I’m still driving it.
not the original engine, rebuilt at 416k when the clutch failed. Runs great, zero oil buring.
Need a front bumper cover for a 1992 Saturn sl2 how much to ship to 98204 if you have one