Saturn was a good brand until it became GM's guinea pig. Basically, GM threw everything at Saturn to see what stuck.

No manual? No deal.

The only thing I don't like about my automatic headlights is that there's no off setting on them. That way, I can't blink my lights off then on at the idiots who would rather drive with their parking lights & fog lights on.

Unless you're on a Commodore 64 or some such.

Is it just me, or did anyone else read that headline in Hamster's voice?

Approves.

Then there's the DRL warning light that looks like a green version of the high-beam warning light. Prospective customers who saw it would always click the high beams on and off then look at me in bewilderment before I could explain what it stood for.

"Autocar...? The magazine that sacked you...?"

Ten years ago I lived in Fitchburg, MA and knew about the Pittsburgh Left...but the people in Fitchburg had a variation on it. The Fitchburg Left starts with the car in front pulling a Pittsburgh Left and ALL of the cars behind that one forming as solid a line as possible so that none of the traffic from the other…

Only three strikes?

In 2000, I moved from Vermont to Massachusetts, having landed a new job down there. When the time came to transfer my license registration, I went through the standard rigamarole of getting my insurance in order then going to the RMV (motto: "DMV Is Too Mainstream") to get the rest done.

Oh, that goes without saying. He was probably hoping for said spanking but the only thing getting spanked is his wallet.

What did he expect, a spanking from Sabine Schmitz?

The Insignia/Regal?

I'd hoon the hell out of my SL1 whenever (and to the extent) I could. Still get mid-30s MPG.

My girlfriend once had an '85 Jetta...

@deadwrx: Sheet metal? What sheet metal?

Probably my grandparents' 1978 Monte Carlo. I not only spent the most time in that car growing up, but...well, I was a kid and wasn't used to riding in a car...so I spent the most time in that car THROWING up as well.

Buick Regal. It went from being yet another generic GM midsize sedan to something relevant again. Never mind that the decision to offer it with three pedals was revolutionary in and of itself...

You know what else is green?*