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The usual comment when most people see Saturn's new three-door coupe, touted as a world's first is, "Why didn't they do that before?" The idea is really an application of the third, and now the fourth doors, that have been available on extended cab pickup trucks for a couple of years.

Coupes have two doors. This one has three -- a rather wide passenger-side door, a driver-side door, and a narrow third door behind the driver's seat.

You would be hard-pressed to find a compact, economical station wagon with room for five passengers or almost 60 cubic feet of cargo that is more practical than Saturn's wagon. And its styling has flair.

GM's great Saturn experiment is almost 10 years old now. The bloom, as the saying goes, is off the rose and the honeymoon is over. Now that Saturn is one more nameplate out there scrambling to find buyers in a fiercely competitive segment of a tough market, how is it faring? Saturn the car is doing fine, according to our respondents.

Potential buyers of sporty coupes have something new to consider, thanks to the folks at Saturn. The issue is doors and just how many a person needs in a coupe. Are two sufficient, or do you need three?

Saturn shows its competition the door. When both Ford and General Motors introduced a third-door option on their full-size pickup trucks in 1996, the "door wars" had begun.