It was a ‘96, says so right in the article, and that’s the year airbags were added.

I love it, but why cram it full of extra power and then delete the air bag? 

The Ion was an uglier, chintzier Cobalt. It represented the moment that the Saturn dream had died.

Actual Saturns were excellent and ahead of their time. By the time the Ion came around, the parts of the company that mattered were already dead.

It also looks like they slapped a later front fascia on it and I’m pretty sure that’s not an ‘85 steering wheel either. This is a weird frankenbin of parts.

As long as that wheezing 2.4 is still under the hood it’s not worth a second look.

My 3.0 Sundance didn’t burn oil, just blew it all out the seals all over the engine compartment :/

Not *my* Tempo, thank god. Going to high school in the years that I did there were lots of them in my orbit though.

Yes I believe that’s exactly what they did. Awful.

I had that engine in an Escort and didn’t totally hate it. The idle vibration was horrendous but other than that it served me pretty well and was happy to cruise at 80 and still give me 30 mpg.

I don’t think the 2.3 in the Ranger was the same as the one in the Tempo. The Ranger one might have actually been slightly better.

I really hate the 2.3 4cyl in virtually every Ford Tempo. Loud, slow, coarse, and with the automatic short several gears.

No mention that this is just like Max Cherry’s car in Jackie Brown? For shame.

And do it soon, please.

My thoughts about Millenias (Millenia?): the restyle shown here made it look even more like a 626 and the previous design was more attractive. My family had a ‘98 and it didn’t even have the interesting engine, just the 2.5 v6 from the 626/Probe/mx-6 etc, and we still loved it. It was a 2 year lease at an eye-popping…

Oh god. 1981 was a bad, bad year for cars.

Ah yes, thank you. All other points stand.

The only thing that gives me pause at all is the mileage. This one has the best of everything LeBaron - flippy headlights but with the revised interior, Turbo II, manual, good color. But man, I’d be worried about a Chrysler turbo with that kind of mileage on it.

You literally can’t see directly in front of you. In a car that was already sitting crazy high. It’s a massive safety issue so, sorry...find a different way to look cool.

Oh my god - nothing breaks like Corelle. They don’t break often but when they do, look out.