Both my parents own saturns (98 and 2000), and they weren't too bad on the maintenance, except for the transmissions. My father swore he'd never buy another Saturn after transmission seals started going at like 36k. The dealership wanted like $1200 for the repairs, but he called the Saturn HQ and bargained them down to like $200. He's a little more favorable to them after that, but is still baffled about why that would happen at such low mileage.
Also, my mother's saturn had to have about $800 worth of work put in because the reverse gear wasn't working properly. When she would shift into reverse, the car would bang violently backwards (this is on an auto, so it can't be chalked up to crappy shifting habits). This happened at about 40k
