2003 Saturn VUE review from North America

About 6 months after purchasing the car used, the transmission started to slip. The RPM's would go up but the car would barely move. Called Saturn, took it for service. They had one day and said it was fixed. I picked it up, a couple of days later it did it again. I took it back to Saturn they had it for 2-3 days. They called and said it was fixed. A week later I was in bumper to bumper rush hour and the car lost all power. The car almost red lined and I could barely get off the road. Saturn had my car for 7 days put 78 miles on it, let the mechanic drive it home and replaced the transmission. Well 13 months almost to the day the new transmission started to act the same way. At least I was able to dive while the RPMs stayed at 4. Again I took it to the same dealer and after calling me to say they needed to order me parts and 4 hours later the car was done. They only had it one day. The car is now at 84,000 miles and after picking it up this morning, my car is back in the same shop because I couldn't even get out of my jobs parking lot. It would not go over 5mph and it was over 4RPM.

I called the corporate office twice today to tell them my frustration and dissatisfaction. They called me back only to tell me that since I am past the 3 year/36,000 mile warranty, and the 5 year/75,000 mile extended VTi transmission warranty that they would repair it but that was all. They also are adding a 12 month/12,000 mile warranty on the third transmission they are installing.

This car is slow on take off because they put a 4 cyl. in an SUV so it cannot get out of the way of itself.

It is totally unreliable due to the VTi transmission.