re saturn performance was re saturn puzzled by its pricing in article fjdcfu iv i kap andrew cmu edu jason m roth jr q andrew cmu edu writes i can t imagine any civic or saturn owners flex n there egos in stop light races it generates as much excitement as two nerds challenging each other in a game of one on one basketball the sl does in about note that this is closer to a than to a paseo or storm pseudo sporty cars that s a ridiculous comparison i know but the point is that saturns and high end civics for that matter accelerate just fine in fact better than most unimproved muscle cars of the s hp is great but tied to tons it just doesn t go that quick saturns on the other hand use hp tied to lbs with some short gearing to move very quickly off the line anyway while your time is consistent with most car magazines and reports i saw the pbs motorweek show clock a speed sl at seconds i m sure that most sl owners will be very lucky to get this speed but seconds is still astonishingly fast for a small door a new civic ex runs about seconds if i m not mistaken most cars in this class are lucky to be in the second range mihir shah
