Monday, June 08, 2009

Uranus

We had a Saturn for about 8 years it was the cheaper of the SL1/SL2. A four speed auto with a four cylinder.  It needed oil and brakes and stuff.  The PCV valve went out (clogged) twice. Paid for one, got the other for free. It was a good little car. The stuff on the lot now looks like crap.
Toyota has been ascendant for at least three decades, and GM declining, for a simple reason: Toyota built cars that worked ("bulletproof," as they say) at a time when GM built cars that didn't work.

In my life I have driven/owned the following domestics and they has met the demise listed in parenthesis.

1981Mercury Cougar X-R7 (transmission failed at 60,000 miles)
1991 Dodge Spirit (transmission failed at 80,000 miles)
1995 Saturn SL (sold to neighboor's retired dad)
1999 Dodge Stratus (stolen and wrecked) Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep can be stolen with nothing more than a standard screwdriver.
1997 Mercury Sable (stolen, was never the same, traded was a great car and I would still be driving it if I would have remembered the club)
1999 F150 (Own) the club is on whenever I park it.

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1 comment:

DuggleBogey said...

Interesting.

It's nice to see the Saturn name still has value, as 16 companies are competing for its ownership.

I think the Saturn Dealerships are really what they are after, I have heard a lot of good stories about how they were treated by Saturn dealers.