When Details first appeared in US Honda showrooms at the end of 1999, the era of gasoline-electric production crossbreed on our street officially begins. That car is so cramped and silly looking, despite being a 60 mpg masterpiece with a fuel-efficient design, few people notice it… but then Prius is here about a year later. The Prius looks and drives like a pretty normal car, but it’s unbelievable energy saving. Competitors have taken notice, and more and more production hybrid models are hitting the market. GM jumped in pretty early, with semi-hybrid package on Silverado 2004but that’s not a real hybrid (where an electric motor powers the wheels). After Ford introduced Escape Hybrid for 2005The general is busy and growing Green line Saturn Vue with a genuine petrol-electric powertrain. First launched in the 2007 model year, the Vue Green Line didn’t sell very well but has taken General Motors into the hybrid-electric big leagues. This is one of the first year machines, found recently at a Denver bone shop.
GM’s Saturn Division Starts Selling high performance “Red Line” version belong to ion and Vue for the 2004 model, followed by Sky Red Line when that car debuted in the 2007 model year. The cars of Red Line have nice red horizontal striped square badgeand so it makes sense to create a green that badge version for Vue Green Line.
I have managed to find just a red line of Saturn After all these years of recording automotive history as seen in the scrap yard, so I’m happy to add a Saturn Green Line. Naturally, both Green Line and Red Line badges adorn my garage wall.
It appears that Saturn dropped the Green Line name and badge for Vue after 2008, with the Vue Hybrid name being used in 2009-2010 (at which point GM self-closing Saturn).
Vue’s hybrid powertrain is not very strongwith a 5-horsepower/48-pound-foot belt-driven electric motor that replaces the starter and alternator while providing a little more engine power plus regenerative power brake. The the battery the pack used old fashioned NiMH chemicals and only produced 36 volts.
The ’07 Green Line has a 2.4-liter Ecotec engine that makes 170 hp, slightly better than the base 2.2-liter version of the Vue and 144 hp. Front-wheel drive and a four-speed automatic transmission are required. The powertrain setup leads to fuel economy 23 city / 29 highway mpgcompared to 19/25 mpg for the base Vue ’07 with 2.2 and auto (with a five-speed manualwith almost no Vue shoppers considerbase range of the non-hybrid Vue is improved to 20/27 mpg).
Green and white color The diagram of this shows that it spent its whole life as an automobile of some kind, perhaps a taxi or a shuttle.
The cheapest Vue ’07 (with 2.2 engine, front-wheel drive, and five-speed manual transmission) has a suggested retail price of $17,995 (about $26,495 in 2022 dollars), while the ’07 Vue Green Line is available listed at $22,995 ($33,855 today). That’s a lot of money for not being too impressed energy savingbut trouble for GM in 2007 bad and soon get much, much worse rather than a single semi-slow hybrid model.
As always. More than ever. Three years later, Saturn will be gone.
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