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1999 Saturn Sl2 Homecoming Edition on 2040-cars

US $2,250.00
Year:1999 Mileage:242700 Color: Green /
 Tan
Location:

Springfield, Illinois, United States

Springfield, Illinois, United States
Advertising:
Transmission:Automatic
Body Type:Sedan
Vehicle Title:Clear
Engine:DOHC 1.9 L
Fuel Type:Gasoline
For Sale By:Private Seller
VIN: 1G8ZK5274XZ283799 Year: 1999
Make: Saturn
Model: S-Series
Trim: SL2 4-Door Homecoming Edition
Options: Leather Seats, CD Player
Safety Features: Driver Airbag, Passenger Airbag
Drive Type: FWD
Power Options: Air Conditioning, Cruise Control, Power Locks, Power Windows
Mileage: 242,700
Exterior Color: Green
Interior Color: Tan
Warranty: Vehicle does NOT have an existing warranty
Number of Cylinders: 4
Condition: UsedA vehicle is considered used if it has been registered and issued a title. Used vehicles have had at least one previous owner. The condition of the exterior, interior and engine can vary depending on the vehicle's history. See the seller's listing for full details and description of any imperfections.Seller Notes:"Clearcoat peeling in several spots, minor crack in drivers side mirror, uses about a quart of oil between changes. Drivers seat has "patched" rip. Odometer bulb is out, but works fine."

I'm the original owner of this well maintained, 1999 Saturn Homecoming Edition SL2.  Clear Title in hand!

In 1999, the Homecoming Edition was produced in a special "Mint Color" with tan leather interior, special off-white gauge faceplates, and black Saturn badges to commemorate the second "Homecoming" visit to the Spring Hill, Tennessee manufacturing facility.

There were only 4,000 of the 1999 Homecoming Edition produced.

This vehicle was rated 24  MPG City - 34 MPG Highway and it still gets a consistent 30 MPG on average.  It has an automatic transmission and a DOHC 1.9L engine.

It still runs great with over 242K miles, but I've bought a new car, and the time has come to let it go.  This is a safe, reliable, and quiet car that still has lots of life left.  This would be a great "new driver" or students car, and it's even up for a long distance trip.

Check out the pictures, and you'll see that I recently had the headliner professionally replaced and the sun visors reupholstered.  A tune up was done this summer, with new spark plugs and wires, and an ERG Valve.  Overall the car is clean looking, but the clearcoat is peeling in a number of spots, mostly on the spoiler.  There a several flaws in the paint and a couple of small rust spots on the hood due to its age.  See the pictures for yourself.

The stock radio has been replaced with a Pioneer Radio/CD player, and it works fine.  Brand new Silver Star Ultra headlights just installed this week!

I'm also throwing in 2 spare matching FireStone/Primewell tires.  Like all older Saturns it uses an extra quart of oil between changes at about 1500 miles.  The battery, brakes, and muffler have all been replaced in the last three years.

If you have any questions just ask.  Local pickup in Springfield, IL.  Airport pickup available.

 

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GM's Saturn Division has been gone since the final 2010 Auras, Outlooks, Skies, and Vues slunk apologetically out of the showrooms, and I'm doing my best to document the more interesting models from The General's once-revolutionary brand. Some of the later Saturns began life as Opel designs, but the Vue actually was the first vehicle to go on the all-new GM Theta platform; the Opel Antara was thus a Saturn copy, a fact that Saturn fans no doubt trot out when they get shamed by Opel zealots over the Astra. Today's Junkyard Gem is a most unusual Vue, in the sense that its original purchaser was fine with both the base manual transmission and the leather-upholstery upgrade. Sure, the cheapest way to buy a new Vue— which was sold here for the 2002-2007 model years— was to get it with the base transmission: a five-speed manual. You can still buy a new car with a five-on-the-floor manual right now, but only in a handful of cheapmobiles; by the middle 2000s, a tiny-and-ever-shrinking subset of American car shoppers would even consider a three-pedal commuter vehicle. Really, there were only two reasons an American new-car buyer would have considered a non-enthusiast vehicle with a manual transmission in 2004: either an eccentric preference for the good ol' stickshift or just plain penny-pinching. The cheapest possible '04 Vue was the version with four-cylinder 2.2-liter engine, front-wheel-drive, and five-speed manual transmission, and it started at $17,025 (about $26,080 in 2022 dollars). That's what we're looking at here. The optional CVT automatic transmission cost an additional $2,095 ($3,210 today), so it made sense to get the manual if you wanted to save serious money on your Vue. However, this car is loaded to the gunwales with nice equipment upgrades, to the tune of at least the Leather Appointments Package ($755) and the Sports Plus II Package ($1,300) and probably a lot more.  So, a buyer who didn't care about power (so no V6 engine), didn't want all-wheel-drive, liked driving a manual transmission Â… but insisted on power everything and a full-zoot comfy leather interior Â… in a cheap small SUV sold by a fast-fading brand. The conversations with the Saturn salesmen about this thing must have been interesting. Built in Tennessee, sold new in Denver, will be crushed near Pikes Peak.

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