few = 2 to 3 avg =2.5

total running count 21.5

 

And i think i worked on one of the two that i have seen.

 

Not the best GM rig forced on Saturn, kinda like the Astra.

 

My Wife got an 05 Relay, put 63,000 miles on it in two years then somehow I ended up driving it. Wasn't bad since it had all the bell and whistles, but it was still a mini-van. Eventually I got my own VUE...

Darn thing about the Relay was that we had the front end stabilizers replaced five or six times. Don't know why it was eating stabilizers, but they finally got it right...(no charge of course)...

 

24.5.....

 

auto trader says there are 214 for sale right now.

since the vehicle was clearly popular, we'll assume that 2/3 of the relays we already counted were traded in on something "more better" - like pretty much anything-- but then immediately sold to unsuspecting purchasers who thought they were buying a real minivan. So the 2/3 are not part of the 214 because the current owners haven't relisted them for sale out of sheer embarrassment .....

Running count:214+24.5=238.5

(I was going to check ebay and the like, but I didn't want to spend the time crossref'ing VINs to avoid duplicates.......)

 

At the time and needing a new van and owning and happy with a Saturn I drove by to see what was going on and saw;
An over priced, butt ugly, badge engineered Chevy Van with Saturns infamous no haggle price.
So
I bought a new Chrysler at 2/3 that number with seats that folded into the floor and never regretted it.

 

GM can not get a mini van right no matter what name they put on it. But adding the Saturn logo to that turd was almost as bad as adding the Saturn logo to the biggest turd of all. The Opel Asturd 1.8L slug.

 

Taking my dogs to the Vet last Friday, I saw one of these things. I was actually in the market for a new van when they came out or shortly afterwards I guess. So I went to look at them. At the time I did not realise I needed a full size van, which this is and expected to see something the size of an Astra which I would have bought. I did not expect to see anything as ugly as it was. Bells and whistles besides it was not a looker.
AND pricey. About a year ago I saw one of these badged as a Caddy Excalade. The name did not improve the looks. And talking to my friend in Northern AZ and runs a shop there, they just installed an engine in one. As he said, just like a Chevy. But he also says the local dealers in his area are just blowing off major repairs on the newer Saturns, way too hard to get parts for them.
S cars?
Still the easiest car in the world to repair. But they are dissappearing now. The hardest? according to him. Izusu's. Almost impossible to get parts for some models.

 

I live about 100 miles from the Saturn plant in Spring Hill, TN and have never seen one at all. I find that ironic.