I totaled my Mercury Mariner Hybrid about a week and a half ago, and found a used Aura hybrid for a pretty good price (ie: it's in my budget of about $10,000).

I was hoping to hear about some reviews on this car.

Please LMK ASAP as I plan to test drive it today.

 

Unless I had a good local mechanic that was willing and able to work on Saturn hybrids I would personally steer clear of them as dealer support looks to be unavailable soon. I would also be concerned with potential parts issues.

My two cents...

 

Why would GM stop working on their cars?

 

Does anyone have a Owners Manual for the Acura Hybrid?

 

gm hybrid should have an 8 year/100k mile warranty for hybrid components.

 

I test drove one before the dealerships closed. Was very pokey, and sucked fuel hard when pushed. An average grocery-getter. The V-6 model had tons of power and was way more fun to drive.

 

Hi StMos. How did the story end?
Could you tell me more about this car? Year, mileage and so on?

The cheapest Aura i found is this Saturn Aura - 12K $ Transmission: Automatic
Mileage: 56,864

There aren't a lot of them.

 

Mike Fran: If I could go back in time and never buy this car, I would. It's been nothing but a headache.

I bought it for around $10k when it had about 40k miles.

I had to have the entire transmission rebuilt shortly after buying it. I had to have some cable replaced that was on national backorder (I don't even know the details on this one). Now I'm having warning lights go on: SERVICE AIR BAG, SERVICE TRACTION CONTROL, SERVICE HYBRID. The car is at 63k miles now. I just got the car back from the Chevy dealership yesterday and they told me they got a record of the errors, but they don't know what's causing them. They reset something and hoped that would fix it.

Well, it didn't. I was driving to work and the "SERVICE TRACTION CONTROL" message came up. It happens when I'm using the cruise control and accelerating going up a hill.

The light and message go away after a few minutes, and then "SERVICE HYBRID" lights up. When that happens, the car will not shut the RPMs off when at a stop light.

I don't know what to do. I hate this car. My mother gets better MPG out of a Honda CRV (not hybrid, and it's a bigger car).

I used to drive an old Ford Focus. Tiny thing, great gas mileage, and I never had a problem.

 

Wow.
Thanks for you answer!
I didn't know about those problems.