General Motors stopped producing vehicles under the Saturn brand way back in the fall of 2009, but this like-new 1994 Saturn SL2 currently for sale through online auction site Cars and Bids brings us back to the brand’s mid-1990s heyday.
This could be one of the most well-kept privately owned examples of the Saturn SL2 in existence. It has traveled just 23,900 miles since it rolled off the production line at GM’s Spring Hill Assembly plant in Tennessee nearly 30 years ago, has never been an accident and has stayed in sunny California its entire life. It has also not been modified in any way – save for the easily removable fuzzy front seat covers, which have likely helped preserve the driver’s and passenger’s seats from wear and tear over the years.
This is an old vehicle that was used as a daily driver, though, so there’s still a few blemishes and other minor flaws. There’s a spot of missing clear coat on the front bumper, some minor scratches on the passenger side front fender and rear wheel arches and a few knicks on the alloy wheels. It does not come with a service record, either, although the seller changed the oil and replaced the rear tires in February of this year. The buyer will receive the owner’s manuals and two sets of keys as well.
Power in the Saturn SL2 came from a naturally aspirated 1.9L four-cylinder engine, which was rated at 122 horsepower and 114 pound-feet of torque from the factory. This particular model has the optional four-speed automatic transmission, rather than the five-speed manual. Some other features include automatic seat belts, a cassette player and air conditioning.
Bidding on this clean Saturn SL2 sits at just over $1,200 as of this writing. Check out the auction lot at this link for some additional information and photos before the sale closes later this week.
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These are great cars and truly undervalued. Hopefully whoever gets this preserves it.
Best car great ride durable tremendous competition for the Corolla again who’s the idiot to drop these General Motors problem they dropped the Malibu Nova Caprice Classic Cavalier Lumina all I had to do was rough on the cars they keep retooling and shooting themselves in the foot to the best cars on the road and Fisher body built the best bodies..
No I have a 2011 DTS Cadillac premium by all accounts from car and Driver Consumer Reports Etc was the finest car did they built it finally corrected the problems and what do they do shoot themselves in the foot again
Medium Red with Grey interior and those “Lace” wheels; the elegant yet simple dash (save for the atrocious-looking corporate steering wheel with airbag) and those quaint, motorized seatbelts! I owned 5 Saturns between 1991 and 2016 and would like a sixth for a commuter car. Great to see a low-mileage, first-gen example still out there.
The author quoted the wrong hp and tq, too. SL2s made 124 hp and 122 lbs-ft. The 8v 1.9L initially made 85 hp and 107 lbs-ft before a later boost to 100 hp and 114 lbs-ft. As for the engine’s buzziness, that’s what cranking up the stereo was for! #ifitstooloudyou’retooold
Best car great ride durable tremendous competition for the Corolla again who’s the idiot to drop these General Motors problem they dropped the Malibu Nova Caprice Classic Cavalier Lumina all I had to do was rough on the cars they keep retooling and shooting themselves in the foot to the best cars on the road and Fisher body built the best bodies..
No I have a 2011 DTS Cadillac premium by all accounts from car and Driver Consumer Reports Etc was the finest car did they built it finally corrected the problems and what do they do shoot themselves in the foot again
An atrocious crude vehicle with a rough running unbalanced engine. I wrote to the head of Saturn back then telling him the engine needed balance shafts to be as smooth as the japanese competition. He said their engineers disagreed. They did eventually use them.
Balance shafts were found in the Ecotec engines, the corporate engines Saturn used from 2003 to 2007 in the Ion. Of the three S-series models I owned, I never noticed excessive engine buzzing or vibrations, so I strongly disagree about them being “atrocious,” “crude” or “rough-running.” These cars were light-years ahead of what I owned before.
Would make a great winter beater
I sold Saturn’s for 12 years. These cars a really tough and structurally like a bank vault. I saw many that were wrecked and people just walked away, and the doors still would open and close with no binding. I loved selling Saturn’s and wish that GM didn’t eventually destroy the brand. The polymer panels were so strong and would never dent. The auto trans had 36 patents on it, and totally unique. The engine was simple and durable and I have seen so many go 300 to 400,000 miles and still run great. It was the expense of automation that made it hard for the company to be profitable.
It was a wonderful car General Motors killed it let the Union’s tell him what to do I should have told him to take a hike leave the car alone would have been a great little car
The problem with Saturn was what I’ve said before, it was a very GM way of trying to solve a problem, if half the money spent on Saturn would have just been spent on actually creating a GOOD J-CAR REPLACEMENT they would have ended up way ahead.
Instead they create not just another division, but a whole other ENTIRE CAR COMPANY……..