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Erik @ Nov 15th 2007 12:27PM
@ Guenther
can you read?
Saturn VUE built after December 2007----although it isn't stellar, Saturn made the list.
Anywho when you get into a "real world" accident it's always a crapshoot.
djSyndrome @ Nov 15th 2007 12:32PM
The Vue? It's a rebadged Opel Antara, and it's built in Mexico. About at un-American as you can get.
Guenther @ Nov 15th 2007 12:33PM
I read at at a 7th grade level- I see the saturn now. Nothing wrong with that- just surprising that's the only one, with the slew of new models out right now.
Jeremy @ Nov 15th 2007 1:08PM
How did they test a car that was built in the future? It's not December 2007 yet.
Erik @ Nov 15th 2007 1:24PM
@ djSyndrome:
ok if you are going to split hairs then every Japanese car on that list that is made in America, by your logic is American.
I was just making a clear observation that a GM branded vehicle, sold in the United States was on the list. But someone needed to nit-pick, are you having a rough day?
djSyndrome @ Nov 15th 2007 2:35PM
@Erik: I'm having a great day - taking pot shots at ill-informed GM apologists always warms the cockles of my heart :)
The primary point of my post (that you missed) is that the Vue isn't an American vehicle *at all*. That has as much to do with the fact that it's a badge-engineered Opel as the fact that it's assembled by folks who can't read the warning labels on the sun visors. Any credit for its crash performance should be given to the folks in Germany who designed the vehicle and made it conform to the (much tougher) European crash test standards, not to GM of America which is completely incapable of building a safe vehicle.
Erik @ Nov 15th 2007 3:13PM
2008 Mailbu scores a "Good" rating in IIHS tests but GM can't make a safe vehicle.
Bulit in Kansas City, Kansas
I know....I'm ill-informed
djSyndrome @ Nov 15th 2007 3:34PM
I'll make this quick.
'08 Legacy (ZOMG built in Indiana!) : http://www.iihs.org/ratings/rating.aspx?id=203 . 'G' markings across the board.
'08 Malibu : http://www.iihs.org/ratings/rating.aspx?id=885 . 1 'A' rating for leg/foot.
Good, but why can't a brand-new Malibu best a *four-year-old* Subaru?
alex @ Nov 15th 2007 8:13PM
hey smartass (djsyndrom), the saturn vue is just as much a saturn as it is an opel. that's right, it was designed and engineered by neither company. it's a daewoo winstrom.
taking pot shots at domestic haters warms the cockles of my heart :)