15 Used SUVs and Crossovers You Should Avoid Buying at All Costs

Saturn Vue CVT VTi

Years: 2002-2005

It died with the Saturn badge in 2010, but Vue should have been axed long before that. It’s almost forgotten now, although it wasn’t that long ago that it still rolled off the Spring Hill, Tennessee and Ramos Arizpe, Mexico plants. GM has long ago settled the class-action suit related to Vue’s extremely unreliable VTi continuously variable transmission. Extended warranty and covered repair costs don’t mean that the problem has magically gone away, however. There are still a lot of Vues out there, waiting for their next victim, and all of them are now officially out even of the extended 125,000 miles/8 years warranty. Plus, the CVT VTi itself was discontinued after 2005, so there’s the issue with the lack of replacement parts. Avoid it like the plague would be our recommendation.