Description: Compact SUV Crossover
Base MSRP Range: $16,895 - $20,010
Invoice Price Range: $15,766 - $18,663

Styling for Saturn's compact-class SUV seems rugged and strong but also progressive and friendly. The wagon reveals familiar proportions of a sport-ute with the tall stance and boxy cabin but also clean lines of an industrial design with simple shapes.

Crafted with a unit-body structure typically used for cars rather than trucks, Vue blends the best features of a traditional SUV -- the tall stance and a spacious cabin with flexible seating and cargo capacity -- with favored traits of a tightly constructed sedan, like the easy-of-entry to comfortable seats and an easy-to-drive personality. For locomotion, Vue pitches the EcoTec four-cylinder engine and a powerful new V6 option. The dual-cam four achieves 143 hp, while the new 3.5-liter V6 runs to 250 hp.

Entry point occurs with Vue in front-wheel-drive (FWD) format toting the four-cylinder engine and a manual five-speed transmission. Next comes Vue with all-wheel-drive (AWD) traction and a continuously variable transmission (CVT), followed by the V6 Vue keyed to a new five-speed electronically-controlled automatic with grade logic control. The Vue Red Line special edition gets its suspension dropped and ground effects added around the body plus special 18-inch wheels on tap, and it stocks the 250-hp V6.

More entertainment options apply to all Vue models in 2004, such as an optional DVD-based rear-seat entertainment system and new audio kits with MP3 capability.