I logged 29.9 in a relentless attempt to bankrupt my employer. The transmission was sometimes hesitant, and I hate having to jerk the lever from D to 3 to kill overdrive and gain some compression braking. The interior of the Saturn certainly benefits from the optional leather seating package. The leather is soft and generously laid on. Cockpit room for a hefty driver was reasonable, even with the intrusion of the optional moonroof.
Instruments are models of legibility, and ergonomics well thought out.
It's when you get under way that the Saturn experience starts to sour. The test machine, which I can only assume had been checked out at least as well as those that real people buy, felt like a loose assemblage of parts when I took it over my favorite rough road. It creaked, it groaned, it rattled like nothing else I've tried in recent decades. I had the moonroof open, and even it contributed to the cacophony, rattling over every bump. The steering was fairly light and rather quick, but rubbery and vague.