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Old 04 Aug 2004, 07:15 pm
Bill
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Default Re: Honda Engine in a Saturn

In article <Jason-0408041544310001@pm4-broad-39.snlo.dialup.fix.net>,
Jason@nospam.com (Jason) wrote:

>I was reading the August 2004 of "MotorTrend" magazine and was shocked
>when I read about the "Saturn Vu AWD Red Line". Is a SUV. The article (on
>page 120-121) clearly says that it comes from the factory with a Honda V6
>engine. The Displacement is 211.8 / 3471.
>They compared it in their tests to three other SUVs. It was the fastest of
>the group but came in third place in the tests.
>
>The next time someone invades this group and says that American made cars
>are better than cars designed in Japan--I plan to ask them:
>If Japanese cars and engines are so bad then how come Suturn places a
>Honda engine in their SUV?


Because GM and Honda both own a piece of Isuzu. Honda buys Isuzu diesels
for some of their other markets. Seen some of those white diesel Isuzu
cargo trucks that look just like white diesel GM cargo trucks?
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