Why all the cracked heads, oil burning,etc. here?

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:31:19 -0800, misterfact donned fireproof underwear and scratched on the wall:

It is very simple.

Honda owners - typically teh younger ones - don't actually DRIVE their cars.

They simply place big "powered by" stickers all over and add on spoilers and oversize gauges.

1. I have been reading news groups since circa 1990 and I have never seen so many narratives of woe with such similar details. The writing style is also similar in most of them. I'm curious as to how these narratives were collected. I know that people don't send me such stories out of the blue.

1. Why do you hate Saturns so much? Were you and/or a relative affected by a Saturn failure?

2. What is your purpose of posting with these stories? Trying to hurt Saturn sales? Don't bother, Saturn has done that all by themselves by dropping the SL series and introducing the Ion.

1. I have a 95 SW1. Bought it with 135K miles, now has 185K miles on it. Most dependable car I have ever owned. I don't think I have put 0 into it other than oil changes and adding oil. My only complaint is really the oil consumption.

Hmmm, well I guess that is more than a couple of things, but ya know what they say: There are three kinds of people in the world, those who can count, and those who can't.

Me neither. I never get unsolicited saturn horror stories sent to me. I must not be special. *shrug*.

His wife impaled herself on a Saturn gearshift lever. Pretty rough to have your wife leave you for a piece of plastic, not to mention one that doesn't even vibrate...

He got tired of trying tell us how he knows better than the national electric code (even though he's clueless about it), thus instead of stories about failed electric wiring, it's stories about failed Saturns.

No, there are 10 types of people in the world, those who know binary, those who don't.

Wow - you can Google....You know of course, that somebody can find something with every car....I'm sure somebody can dig up the horror stories on the web like these with every manufacturer of most products - not just cars - Gimme a break...

I am not a Saturn lover nor hater....I have a 5speed 94 SL2 that was given to me with 120K miles 3 years ago. Now has 170K. Yes - it goes through a little oil, drips a little water on my left arm in the rain, (through what a suspect is a leak in the Sunroof), but oh well - As long as it passes inspection and doesn't leave it on the floor in the garage, one quart between changes doesn't kill me. Fixes to the car I've done are a starter, new tires and brakes. As I said, I don't love it or hate it as it's my commuter car and it does a good job getting me from home to job and back. It get's parked in the garage next to my F150 Lariat - Now we can talk about love... :)

Scott