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Article: SEEING IS BELIEVING; Second-gen Vue is surprisingly better than the first.(News)
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- AutoWeek
- Article date:
- May 28, 2007
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Byline: BOB GRITZINGER, WES RAYNAL
The 2008 Saturn Vue is one of the more intriguing new vehicles on the market this year for a few reasons-and not because of any innovative technology, advances in safety or mammoth leaps in fuel economy.
With the Vue, you get fairly straightforward hardware: front-mounted four- and six-cylinder engines, front- or all-wheel drive, MacPherson strut front and multilink rear suspension, seating for five, six airbags, the usual.
What's compelling, first of all, is how this car got here. Five hundred engineers simultaneously designed and developed the car in Germany, the United States and Korea. It will be built in ...