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A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen

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1329 points kwindla | 2 comments | 25 Apr 25 15:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source
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classichasclass ◴[25 Apr 25 15:17 UTC] No.43794464[source]▶
I loved the Saturn plastic doors. The salesdroids were conditioned to call them "polymer panels" and I got corrected when I bought my SL2 back in the day, but I was sold when in their own showroom he kicked the door in, it visibly dented, and then popped itself right back out with no damage to either the paint or the pla, uh, polymer.

That SL2 went from California to Maine, down to Georgia and back to California. It never had any dings and had only a few scratches in the paint. My Civics seem to get dinged if you look at them wrong.

I wish I could have said the same about the Saturn's stickshift, though. That actually fractured when I was in Gilroy. I mean, the shaft literally snapped.

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1. aquova ◴[25 Apr 25 18:55 UTC] No.43797325[source]▶
My first car was a Saturn, they performed that same trick in the salesroom as well. They didn't keep that trend up forever though, in the late 2000s my father went to go purchase another Saturn, and he was reeling up to give it a kick before the salesman had to hurriedly tell him they didn't make them like that anymore.
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2. classichasclass ◴[25 Apr 25 21:28 UTC] No.43798701[source]▶
That was probably by the time they had become a glorified Opel rebadge shop. I was probably going to buy another Saturn and I might have settled for an Ion, but the Astra was, to borrow from Dan Neil, "hewn from solid blocks of mediocrity." So now I drive Hondas again.