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vanzandt said:
Saturn lol.
Ya gotta give him credit, if Roger Smith was anything, he was a marketing genius with Saturn.
A Chevy by any other name, is still a Chevy.
He pulled the wool over the eyes of most American's in the market for a quality car at the time.
Typical GM junk, but Roger used used Shiseido instead of Maybelline when he reached for the lipstick...
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Funny story about my Saturn experience. 10 years ago I wound up with a used 2002 Saturn L100. The thing had like 120K miles on it. It had it's problems, mostly chassis related, and brakes.

One day I was driving along in it early in the morning before the sun came up. I was very tired, had to be somewhere on time.

So while tootling along, I had my hand resting on the shifter (It's an automatic, of course.)

For some reason, to this day I do not know why...While cruising along at 50 MPH, my right arm jerked uncontrollably, and I pushed the shifter into reverse. The car made the most horrible sound, obviously. After a second or two I got it back into D, and pulled over. I was freaking out, thought I killed the tranny. Waited a bit while parked and idling in a lot, everything seemed fine. Continued on to the destination.

Got home later fine. And the car was never the worse for wear for the remaining couple years I had it.

So kudos to the GM tranny folks, they knew how to build them to last, at least in that model of car, hehe.
 
Overnight said:
Funny story about my Saturn experience. 10 years ago I wound up with a used 2002 Saturn L100. The thing had like 120K miles on it. It had it's problems, mostly chassis related, and brakes.

One day I was driving along in it early in the morning before the sun came up. I was very tired, had to be somewhere on time.

So while tootling along, I had my hand resting on the shifter (It's an automatic, of course.)

For some reason, to this day I do not know why...While cruising along at 50 MPH, my right arm jerked uncontrollably, and I pushed the shifter into reverse. The car made the most horrible sound, obviously. After a second or two I got it back into D, and pulled over. I was freaking out, thought I killed the tranny. Waited a bit while parked and idling in a lot, everything seemed fine. Continued on to the destination.

Got home later fine. And the car was never the worse for wear for the remaining couple years I had it.

So kudos to the GM tranny folks, they knew how to build them to last, at least in that model of car, hehe.
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Lol.
Somehow it doesn't surprise me that you'd buy a Saturn.

That, laughingly said, you don't think they ALL figured that out in like 1952?

It's like a bunch of engineers are sitting around in a room designing an automatic transmission and one of them says.....
......"but what if they accidentally hit reverse".

It's called a reverse inhibitor.
It's controlled by the obc now, but back in the day it was controlled by a separate hydraulic valve that kind of acted like a solenoid. It wasn't a solenoid, but for lack of a better description, it would be synonymous to one. Fluid flow and current flow are very similar from an engineering standpoint Lots of equations apply to both.
But trust me... Saturn merits no kudos for that one.
You could have pulled the same trick in a Pinto.
 
Overnight said:
Can you please show me anywhere in that post where I said I bought a Saturn?
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Didn't mean to hurt your feelings dude.

I mean I guess I assumed this was implied.

"10 years ago I wound up with a used 2002 Saturn L100."

Why are you like some kind of bug that flies to a light anyway?

You chime in on everyone's post.
I mean it doesn't bother me.... but it should bother you.
Just sayin......
 
vanzandt said:
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You chime in on everyone's post.
I mean it doesn't bother me.... but it should bother you.
Just sayin......
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K, I will no longer post in any thread other than my own. After all, you are saying that chiming in on everyone else's post is bad for me, but does not bother YOU. Seems to me that YOU are the one that is being bothered by my text.

I "wound up" with that Saturn because it was my mother's car, and I inherited it when she died in 2013.

As for all that talk about throwing an automatic transmission into reverse at forward speeds of 50+ MPH? Well, if they have it all figured out in 1952, then how come in a car 50 years later when it happens, they cannot keep the car from shuddering like it is going to explode?

Answer that one.
 
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