The Lemon Index

Brands · No brand score

Saturn.

Every Saturn model we track: 2 with a Lemon Index, 5 with owner complaints.

Best Saturn SL 52 · Worst Saturn Vue 109

2005 Saturn Vue, illustration

Every Saturn, ranked. Lower is better. 100 is the average car.

Each score covers that model's own model years. Saturn wasn't one of the 22 brands in our 2010–2022 study, so it has no brand score.

More Saturn models with owner complaints. No score: we don't have their U.S. sales by year, so each page shows the complaints and recalls.

Most reliable Saturn

SL.

about half as many complaints as the average car.

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Saturn SL52

Least reliable Saturn

Vue.

about average.

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Saturn Vue109

The Lemon Index counts owner complaints filed with the U.S. government (NHTSA) in a car's first 3 years, per car sold, against the average car of the same model years (100 = average, lower is better). It measures complaints, not crash safety. How it works · Every brand

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