1997 Saturn SC review from North America

I loved this car. I had moved to America in 2004 and wanted a cheap car to do some traveling. My boss' wife in fact spotted this car for sale on the side of the road and I bought it soon after.

Apart from the usual wear and tear stuff - brakes, the odd oil leak, tyres etc nothing really went wrong with this this cheap little gem. I had her serviced regularly at a back yard Barry sort of place, and that was all it ever required. Parts were cheap as chips and it was so economical to run.

The only thing this car didn't manage for me was that it failed to impress the American ladies, but that's a whole different story.

I am back in Australia now, and before I left the land of the free, the big, and the guns, I sold it to a New Yorker who asked if Australia was part of America?! Consequently I jacked the price an extra 20 bucks on account of ignorance.

This car got me everywhere. I drove it twice to Toronto from Tampa, Florida and back without so much as a skip. This too in the middle of winter mind you.

I miss that little Saturn. She was a beauty and I hope that fellah who bought it off me is having plenty more fun.

I now have a bigger GM HSV with a gut wrenching V6, and burning so much gas that it's paying off the Saudi sheik's new castle.