2008 Saturn VUE Pre-Production Testing in Arizona!

[JazzyChef]

Last wednesday I was on my way back home on the beeline highway in Payson, Arizona.. 3:07 PM on Wednesday september 27th

I had stopped off for some food at sonic when I saw a white SUV pull up to the traffic light to the left of me, the light turned green and the car took off into town. Leave it to the person in front of me to drive 5 miles an hour, I couldn't catch up to the vehicle in time. The SUV caught the main traffic light in town turned red just in time to catch the SUV, so as I was coming up behind it I thought it was a little bigger than a toyota rav4. The vehicle was white and had black tape covering the door panels, also covering the badging on the vehicle. As I pulled up to the side of it as I was turning I looked back and saw a bright chrome grill with the new saturn badge not covered! The headlights had a bright jewel background, and they looked strikingly similar to the Outlook although with a bit more of an angle that almost looked a lot like the antara concept. The the side mirrors on the vehicle is how I recognized the vehicle right away. There were 2 passengers in the vehicle that were looking at me as I was them. When the light turned green the guy gassed it and took off leaving me to look at the blue Michigan license plates.

It looked strikingly similar to...

http://www.autorevue.cz/Obrazky/2006/01leden/antara/02.jpg

[pd1601]

I saw one of these in Tempe last week. It looked as if the hood was a little dented up....... That coudl have been an optical illusion generated by the tape on teh vehicle. There was black tape over the emblem on the grille. The new Chrome Grille looks like it was taken from Vauxhall (in the UK).

[D C]

So that's not a pic of the one you saw, right? Whew. I was going to go :eek: if it's already snowing in AZ.

[pd1601]

Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon have both had cold weather (i.e. around freezing) in the past month - at around the same time Utah had snow.

[bad1chad]

That would be pretty neat to see. I like the tires on the in the picture above, but from what you can tell with all that tape, the tires are about all I would buy in that pic.

[Swizelman45]

Yea I saw them in Tempe last week too. Right off of Rural south of the 60. They were loading up the trucks behind the embassy suites. Testing those white VUEs and some Auras. So basically they are Antaras.