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My mother was recently in the market for a new vehicle. I drove a late model low miles V-6 Saturn Vue. It was an attractive seamist blue/green color with factory dual exhaust. The motor was impressive, it felt torquey like a V-8. The car seemed pretty nice. I think it was an '08 or '09, so I'm not sure if the one that you're looking at would be similar.

It did have 1 issue that made me think that most women and some men wouldn't like it. Because of the huge torque and the fact that the torque converter felt like it locked up at 1000 rpm, there was a very invasive low frequency hum. It was ever present because unless you were at highway speeds, the engines rpm was always low enough to create this NVH if you were on the throttle at all. I'm not sure that they are all like that, and the one that I looked at was an '08. If you were a young father looking for a family hauler, it might be just the ticket because you could feel like you were in a hot rod and still have room for the family.
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