It was gutless no power and boring. I only had it for 1 year and traded it in for another. Only new car I ever owned that I sold a year later.

My Mother got a Saturn after my Dad passed away. It was a nice small car for her to drive then she got diagnosed with dementia and lost her license. The caregivers I hired drove her around in the car but after awhile preferred to use their own. It sat in her the garage for years. I would start it up weekly just to keep it going. After she passed I sold the car to a friend and after 6 months the car basically died with 40,000 miles. I ended up giving back the amount I sold the car to this friend who ended up homeless.

It lasted about 10 years between me and my two older brothers.

I rented a Sentra in the 80’s and it was a good car then

All I know is that the thing died between the late August to December '06.

We bought it when we retired instead of the RV that we had planned to purchase and become full-timers. Now we are stuck here in deep-red rural Michigan, saddled with endless renovations and the weight of the extended family's expectations that we will continue to uphold the family legacy.

After about 14 months of working 9 hour days, keeping up a small farm, they told their relatives "You want to buy it?"
Naturally, relatives turned it down. 3-4 days later, it was up for sale. They actually made a profit on the deal.
My friend and his wife said: "Never, ever again will we try to please everyone!" ..."Nobody was pleased..especially US!"

my husband is incredibly happy here. That sounds wrong. I'm really happy that he's happy, and I love that for him; however, I feel totally stuck.

I've owned two Saturns, a coupe and a Vue, and both were very dependable. I think the quality went way down in later years as GM cut support and started just re-badging other makes as Saturns.

You have my sympathy.

I had a customer tell me once "You people aren't technicians, you're Quick Restore mechanics!"

He wasn't entirely wrong

We can’t get a duplicate because the county records still show a lien, even though it was paid off more than 20 years ago, and the financing entity no longer exists.

drove me to mac. had 2 hardrive failures with the mac and no arguments , just send it in and they fixed it. havnt had any issues since . this is my 2nd mac laptop computer.
may outlive me.

I tried to talk her into a Honda Civic which was her second choice but she thought the Saturn was more dressed up.

What it was was a crap economy card dressed up in plastic panels. And unreliable to boot.

Hated that car.

For me personally, I would say that the worst purchase was a Rainsoft water treatment system for the house. They sold it as being a miraculous thing and it turned out to be a bad water softener and and RO unit. Not worth the money even before it started leaking and breaking down. Replaced both and the replacements have lasted twice as long without troubles.

I had moved into the mountains and figured the stars were awesome, which they were. But the telescope was too delicate to move around, WAY too complicated for my skill level, needed electricity to operate (I was off the grid) and, finally, it's just way too freaking cold to sit outside nearly motionless at night in the mountains. Total waste of money.

Excellent visual quality for something mass produced. I want an Apochromatic but they're $$$. The whole thing weighs maybe 15 pounds including the mount and motors.

I had a 70s era Celestron 100mm refractor for a long time, but it was heavy and cumbersome. I sold it in 2017.

GrabNGo is what I do now.

State of the art, enormously expensive. I never followed through on developing some expertise with it; decades later, I'm still pissed at myself for letting it go.

When I saw the title of your post in relation to the discussion, I was more than confused. I thought, "WTF?? Did someone use it for a sledgehammer or something?? Was it stripped before you got it and they just put some old pickups in it?" LOL.

I grew up in Austin, so there was all manner of music available over the years. One morning, a friend stopped by my place and presented me with a small, thin piece of light wood, highly polished on one side. He'd been to a progressive country concert the night before; turned out that one of the performers (you'd recognize the name) had become enraged at the audience's lack of appreciation for his songs, causing him to bash his Martin 12-string into fireplace kindling, before stomping off-stage. My friend was kind enough to retrieve a piece of the destroyed Martin, which is still in my belongings, somewhere.

I use it maybe 3 or 4 days per month.

It just takes up too much room.

Mine also is HUGE. I use mine about the same amount as you do. I just knew I'd be able to sell it for what I paid - NOPE!! Not even a little bit close. I'm thinking of setting it on fire on my birthday!

I did have it for ten years and got some good use out of it before it just quit working.

…$2000 clothes racks -

there is always a but it seems. My treadmill is one of the better purchases I have made. I have found that using them becomes boring over time. Solution: There is at least one contraption on the phallus arrow company which allows for the attachment of a laptop. There are now a few websites that allow one to walk around in Amsterdam or Rome or the ruins of Pompii... Definitely make my walks much more enjoyable and on one site there is even tour guide info included. Many of the walks are UHD and 60fps.

You are missing out IcyPeas. Anyone PM me if more info is wanted.

Five transmissions.

Had an expensive repair when the transmission went out but other than that it served me well. I finally got rid of it by giving it to my son-in-law's brother who lives in Mexico City. It's pretty beat up looking and has a lot of miles on it but he's still using it.

More expensive caravan. Power steering went out if you went through a puddle. It was a total piece of trash. I told her to get a toyota

either watching the clothes go around or yelling into it trying to get an echo (and attempting to climb in).

I was with that dud for 14 years, 12 of them married.

Lasted only 15 years before neck bow started causing intonation problems.
A local tech determines that the truss rod is broken inside the neck. The guitar was NEVER adjusted. So, it had to leave the factory with that defect.
Martin has a lifetime warranty, so no problem, right?
Wrong.
Martin gets to decide when it will honor their warranty. They get to decide (without any evidence) that the customer must be lying."
They also claimed the guitar is old. I've got a Martin in the storeroom built in 1965, and 2008 is old?
I'll never buy another Martin product.

A good friend named the car 'Amway'. It had some kind of experimental carb on the engine (this was the Energy Crisis time after all) which did not work right. It was always stalling out (it was an automatic) whenever I had to climb any kind of hill. I finally got rid of it after it sat in my yard for a few months.

What a forward thinker I was.

Had a Datsun B-210 that was a complete lemon, though.

This was an add on family room with a flat roof.
Rain, ice, snow, freeze thaw, more rain. Looked like Niagra Falls in there.

You are taking a huge chance with any flat roof. Even if you are assured it was maintained, even if you do routine maintenance yourself.

However, I had a 1999 Saturn 4 door that ran until 268,000 miles. Stong engines in that year's model. But it got to a point that no GM dealer nor any mechanic really wanted to work on it. Lasted almost 25 years with routine maintenance, then a weird timing problem took it out for us. Donated to a charity.

I would now recommend a used Subaru, after you research it.

I thought it would be fun. It was, sometimes, but it was unreliable and having a two - seater was limiting. It eventually blew up, and I have been car-free for 20 years.

Would make the pope kick in a stained glass window.

Way back when VCRs were a new thing I bought a Beta type. Worked okay except it had a remote that was wired and I ran over it with a vacuum several times. I had to use electrical tape to "repair" it.

The biggest problem was that there were so few Beta videos to choose from to rent. Plus the remote..

I finally got rid of it and all of my tapes by selling everything for $35 at the flea market.

It could have been ok if it wasn't in two head-on collisions before I got it!

What a damned nightmare it is.

A 2018 Honda Civic Sport.

Won't go into any details but it is ruining my 'effin life.

I cannot sell it because of the accidents I was not told about.

It seriously sucks!

I saw a discount brand online and on an impulse, I ordered it. (I had five cats at the time.) It still cost a car payment. And it never worked. I was able to send it back or I would still be kicking myself about it.

I have a cat treadmill that only Charlotte would use.

A 1950's money pit.