At long last, badge engineering creates beauty where mediocrity is the norm. Topping the package are the most elegant logos adorning a modern vehicle the Saturn's famous red-square has the depth of a trillion-cut ruby. The Aura hosts a pair of upbeat exhaust pipes, making a statement of virility no previous Saturn dared proclaim. The deck lid's chrome slab does more than get its spizzarkle on it visually thins the booty. Meanwhile, the Aura’s Audi-esque flowing C-pillar and side marker lights add a distinctly Teutonic touch pronouncing the car’s German heritage louder than a computer generated Kraftwerk concert.Ī tall posterior rounds out the Aura’s rear, offering an ideal blend of Pontiac understatement and Altezza attitude. Conforming to the current Japanese style, oversized headlights blight the Aura's sleek silhouette. The blistered wheel arches and chunky front end are muscular by Camry standards– albeit with a thick chrome bar across the grill that would be right at home on Paul Wall's iced-out grin. The model’s sheetmetal offers suitably clean/boring lines in a pronounced wedge shape, with complementary angles and purposeful curves. The Aura is an American-built Opel that looks like a Japanese copy of a German car. And now, finally, the Saturn Aura is here to revive GM’s "import fighter." After leaving Saturn to twist in the wind, losing billions in the process, GM eventually spiked the brand’s independence. Friendly Saturn dealers created devoted customers with a “no dicker” sticker and a pretty good range of plastic-paneled cars (the S-Series). An X indicates that the vehicle was not manufactured for a specific year.Saturn was born “A different kind of company, a different kind of car.” Talk about post-modern irony GM created the Saturn division to copy Japan’s products, management techniques and manufacturing dexterity. N/A indicates that we did not receive a large enough sample size to provide data for a specific year. Our subscribers provide great insights into their satisfaction by answering one simple question: If they had it to do all over again, would they definitely buy or lease the same model? In addition, respondents also rate their cars in six categories: driving experience, comfort, value, styling, audio, and climate systems. To learn about satisfaction, CR has collected survey data from our annual survey on more than half a million vehicles. An X indicates that the vehicle was not manufactured for a specific year. Based on this data and further analysis, we predict reliability for the latest year. Extra weight is given to the more serious areas such as major engine or transmission problems. The results are presented relative to the average model that year. Consumer Reports subscribers reported on any serious problems they had with their vehicles during the past 12 months that they considered serious because of cost, failure, safety, or downtime, in any of the trouble spots included in the table below. The reliability charts are based on responses on hundreds of thousands of vehicles from our latest Annual Auto Survey.
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