Notice the tow bar up front there. EDIT: this statement is false: "Some of those miles are for sure from being flat towed" I used to see these Saturns towed all the time behind big motor homes, I bet this one was too. btw, this one has the DOHC engine 
IndyJoe wrote: 1996 MANUAL tranny - $850
They are for sure not from being flat towed. All Saturns had electronic odometers, mileage didn't go up with the ignition off. This was a selling point at Saturn as these cars were marketed to the RV community.
That 1996 model still had the mechanical Odometer: (I'm pretty sure with a manual tranny that rolled while being towed. I'll check mine with the ignition switched off while driving home tonight)
Later years had the electronic ones:
Just because it has numbers on a dial doesn't mean an electronic VSS isn't sending it the signal to spin. Most early-mid 90's gm stuff is like that, electronic signal feeds small motor on odometer and it spins, versus being driven by cable
Exactly, Saturns were always electronic. The ones with mechanical odometers were driven by an electric motor.
The WTF is, GM standard is 4000 pulses per mile. Or from a historical perspective, four pulses per speedo cable rotation.
Not Saturn, they had to be Different. 7000 pulses per mile. Why not?
I loves me some Saturn but they did some things different just for the sake of being different, and no better reason than that. (Like the bellhousing. It's SO CLOSE to Corporate FWD/60 Degree that it isn't funny... but it isn't. Because Different.)
Okay, I stand corrected. I got the Saturn up to speed on the way home tonight, shut ignition completely off: Odometer did NOT roll forward. It is electronic, despite having the appearance of mechanical Odometer. I will edit the original post.
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