Used 2008 Saturn VUE XR V6 AWD for Sale near Chicago, IL

For a SUV this truck is built solid. Its reliable. You put your foot down and it goes! You take it off road and it goes! You fill the tank and the gas goes! This vechile is amazing but the only complaint I have about it, is that with the 6cyl it uses gas far faster then I am used to. Its a trade off though, you want the power you have to pay for it some how

I like the xm radio, the dual cd player, how it handles in the snow and ice. Its fun to drive, dependable and not bad fuel economy for suv. I would recommend this car to anyone looking for an suv.

Cons: Accelleration is impressive for the weight of the vehicle, maintenance is pretty standard, the tranny goes out, but GM covers it to 120k now. For the most part this is a good vehicle for someone with a short commute that wants the added vehicle height for seeing over snowbanks, other cars. For the most part the AWD system will get you where you want when dealing with snow, and off roading where you don't have to do major hill climbs. Has a lot of features at a low price, like AWD, vehicle stability assist, fog lights, dimming rear view mirror, heated seats. Decent cargo room for items that are tall and you wouldn't be able to fit in the trunk of a car. Supposibly it has good safety and with the weight I would think it would crush the other car you get in an accident with. Looks are great I feel, still holds up around 2015 vehicles. Pros: Car weighs a lot and I think this hurts it both in the handling and gas mileage. Gas mileage is poor, was getting 20.5 mpg average with 75% highway when purchased in 2012, but recently have been getting worse. I will check it again today and maybe update mpg here. Again handling there is quite a lot of body roll when cornering, similar vehicles in 2015 will blow this vehicle away in the corners. In the winter every once in a while you will lose your stability track, traction control, ABS, and possibly AWD(can't really tell), haven't figured out why yet, to reset it, just turn the vehicle off open and close the drivers door and wait for vehicle interior lights to shutoff before restarting the vehicle. So an annoyance. Transmission 3-5-R waveplate goes out, but now GM is covering that for 120k or 10 years whichever comes first. For the size of this vehicle the cargo room is low, and you really feel that when going on a camping trip or other trip. Also rear seat room is small only really comfortable for small kids. Front room feels small too and seat bottoms are short, so you feel like too much of your legs stick off. The front seats don't bother me much but its worth noting for others. The rear bumper there is no protector over the top of it to keep it from getting knicked or scratched when cargo is removed or put in the vehicle, and it is a curved surface so there is really no add on you can put on there. On the front bumber is this black drop down air dam piece to help get the vehicle more MPG, only issue is, if you go offroading, it is going to get banged up and even on some high curbs this part will bottom out on when parking, bad design in my eye and how much MPG do you really save from this? I'm guessing minimal. The hitch that comes on my vehicle is a Class 2, with the trailering package. With a car with so much power, you would think they would have done a class 3 offering. Yet the chassis and the tranny wouldn't be able to handle the upper weights of a class 3. So, I think they put a class 2 just to make sure no idiot would dammage their vehicle. If you do opt to replace the class 2 with a class 3 hitch be aware that the tongue weight can still only handle 450 lbs based on the vehicle chassis and pull weight of 3500 lbs. Therefore I can only see one reason to really upgrade the hitch on this vehicle and that would be in order to be able to buy one of those bike racks with a hitch on it that allows you to pull a very small trailer at the same time. When temperatures fall below 45F, I notice my front shocks start squaking, I have looked up there and found that there is a plastic shock guard that appears to fall off probably when temps. are high in the summer and that is what I think is making most of the noise. If you pull it back down over the shock the noise is much less. I may cable tie it this fall, but I'm guessing if the noise bothers you you will want to at least pull that down every year in the late fall. I feel a lot of vehicle flex in the rear and there is some noise that goes along with things moving back there, doesn't seem to be too big of a deal for me, just that they could have made an overall stiffer chassis I think. Vehicle depreciation, I guess its domestic, what more can I say. AWD system, this system is a reactive system, where the vehicle runs in FWD mode until there is slippage up front at any tire and then a magnetic clutch applies some power to the rear end. I will tell you with experience you do not want to go offroading following your friends subaru to anywere he goes, because getting back is going to be much harder for you especially on the hill climbs. I've even had some trouble just going up my snow covered driveway with this system when the snow gets deeper. Yet, even though this system is inferior to Subarus it is much better than just a FWD vehicle.

Saturn hit a home run with the Vue, especially the XR. It was truly ahead of its time in exterior looks, interior comfort and features, and long-term value. We've loved this vehicle since 2008. Too bad Saturn was a casualty of the economy. But, it was brought back as the Chevy Captiva, out of the same Tennesee factory. Helps with dealer service, for certain!

This is no sissy car, It's a shame that GM dumped Saturn. Bad Move. GM seems to want to discontinue making popular cars such as the Celebrity and station wagons. This car so much fun to drive that I sometimes don't want to stop.