1995 Saturn SL1 VS 2002 Hyundai Elantra

The Saturn wins!!

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• Saturn
• SL1
• Hyundai
• Elantra

[bsp1148]

That hyundai engine should be covered under warranty unless the owner abused the car. I have the same car, 2001 Hyundai Elantra. The same original engine now has over 132 k miles and it is still going strong like new. I am still getting 33 mph on highway, honest. My question to this dude is, why do you think Saturn is now out of business? Also, you can swap the engine with an used one. There are many good used Elantra engines out there. I guess it is always easy to blame the car company.

[Geoff12052]

@bsp1148 No matter how you drive it, a car should not blow up at 32,000 miles. We've bought a few cars from Saturn, it was the best car buying experience we've ever had. They took my mother's piece of crap Beetle for a trade in and gave her $18,000 without even starting the engine. (The fuel pump went at 13,000 miles) I recently bought a Toyota Venza for my wife, and the car is amazing, but dealing with the weasles at the dealer and all of their BS took 4 hours! They diagnosed cars for free 2!

[bsp1148]

@Geoff12052 You had a blown up gasket and they have said $4500 to fix it? First of all, you can get a brand new long block for less than $3K. Even better you can buy a decent reliable Elantra engine under 40k miles for less that 1K. Now, I don't know how you've got your warranty voided but you are not telling the full story here. Hyundai honors the powertrain warranty up to 100k miles or 10 years whichever comes first. If the rest of car is fine, I will swap the engine out.

[bsp1148]

correction: you've said $5400 but I think you are inflating the cost. A blown up engine isn't the end of world and you can get your Elantra rolling again without costing you a fortune.

[Geoff12052]

@bsp1148 They said it needed a new engine, intake manifold, and radiator.

[Geoff12052]

@bsp1148 The car got towed away years ago... it was my brother in law's car. He bought it used with 30,000 miles. At 32,000, he heard a pop on the highway and it broke down. Towed it to two different Hyundai dealers who both told him the same story."blown head gasket, not a warranty issue" Then it sat in the yard for 3 years till we gave it away for parts. (bank stopped taking payments, but they still had the title) He was young and didn't have $ for another engine. That's the whole story! :)

[VTEC422]

@RealLife0823 lol at smoking things in a 98 sl1

[sundingaling]

my Hyundai Elantra has 200,000 plus miles and runs way better then any shitty saturn plastic pos are I've ever driven, most cars can last along time as long as you take care of it and don't drive like a jackass

[TomsCigReviews]

you sound like randal from clerks

[Geoff12052]

@RealLife0823 Nice! My water pump started leaking at 220,000 miles, and when they did that I had them do the tensioner, because it would start to squeal when I had the A/C on. I was told the timing chain lasts the life of the car, and I've heard of people replacing theirs at well over 400,000 miles, and there was still plenty of life left on it.... so you may want to reconsider that, unless of course you can do it yourself for cheap! :)

[ltskinbro]

Hyundai had alot of transmission problems.

[ugafan1997]

The Hyundai's are better cars! My 2001 Sonata v-6 has over 188,000 miles and the only thing I have ever done to the car, besides mantience, is change the serpentine belt! One great car! Definitely got my moneys worth!

[rhg1391]

lol i hate hyundai

i hope my saturn makes it to tht many miles lol i got the ion redline