@Paul Y. requires regruntling: As someone who worked for On*Star, in the call centers, and as a corporate trainer, I had to overcome that attitude on occasion. The safety and security features cannot be replicated. If you're involved in an accident and lying unconscious, your car is stolen in a jurisdiction that…

@Jagvar: Also, the transmitter wouldn't do anything anyway because it was an analog system and there's no wireless analog tower that will take AMPS 800. They were phased out in 2008.

@WidowMaker: I'd have to say that the Pontiac Montana SV6 was the worst of all of them... Or maybe it was the Uplander, or the Terazza. No— they were all equally hideous...

@Elhigh: By the time I started working for a Saturn dealer in 2000 (I owned one and loved the dealer experience) it had changed significantly. By then, they were dealing with an aging product line, little corporate sales support, and nothing exciting.

@rock.strongo: I beat my 95 SL1 without mercy, putting 200k on it in 3 years of delivering pizzas from 1998-2001. I loved that car. I only had to replace a clutch, the temp sensor, and EGR valve in the years that I owned it. It was everything a 20something in a small car could want.

I agree with most of these - The body-on-frame Explorer is no big loss -most off-roaders who use them, that I've seen, just use them because it was mom's hand-me-down because they were only going to give her $1500 as a trade when she bought the Mini.

CP, with a story: near me, there's a 92 Previa for sale with 384k miles - the guy wants $1000. I drove it just for S&Gs and looked at the maintenance receipts - and decided "hell no" based on the fact that he wasn't willing to take the $600 cash I offered. Add to that the fact that there was a defined whine from the…

1. Find a decent-condition twin-cam, 5-speed neon coupe. I'd prefer an R/T in Blue. Nostalgia for the late 90s, etc...

Corn ethanol is not the answer by a long shot. Ethanol can only be a viable alternative fuel when cars are built for it, and it can be produced from materials that we already have. A few years ago I read about a company called Consaka that was making ethanol from cellulosic plant waste - waste wood pulp and other…

I'll just leave this here.

#corrections

I'd buy this for my girlfriend, who currently has the fever for a new car with no roof. The color is awful on anything but a W123 and I'm honestly a bigger fan of the US-market dual round lights - it's a better look than euro lights and us bumpers...

@Cloud81918: I loved my 1995 Saturn SL1 5speed - I thrashed it without mercy, delivering pizzas from 1998-2002 with abandon. Unfortunately a recall that wasn't done (1995-96 single cam saturns had a tendency to crack heads before 100k miles and some 150,000 cars were recalled in 1999 to replace the head with a better…

@dmoon: Agreed.

@HighSpeedIndeed: I would love to turn a Z31 300ZX into this car...

Cressida... I think it's a Cressida.

It's better than the banks' response, lobbying tooth-and-nail to keep from closing the loopholes that they exploited to get into their mess in 2008.

@Pibbs loves his Saab: Not so much on fuel injected cars with modern gasoline...