Saturn S-series
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| Saturn S-series SL/SW/SC | |
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| Manufacturer: | General Motors |
| Production: | 1990–2002 |
| Successor: | Saturn ION |
| Class: | Compact car |
| Body styles: | 2-door coupe 3-door coupe 4-door sedan 5-door station wagon |
| Platform: | FF Z-body |
| Engines: | 1.9 L Saturn I4 |
The S-series is a family of compact cars from the Saturn automobile company. This was the first series of Saturn vehicles. The automobile platform used, Z-Body, was developed entirely in-house at Saturn and shared very little with the rest of the General Motors product line.
The original S series was marketed from the fall of 1990 through the end of the 2002 model year, with a redesign in 1996.
The S-series line-up included sedans (SL, SL1, SL2), coupes (SC, SC1, SC2) and wagons (SW1, SW2). Two engines, unique to Saturn, were available. They were SOHC and DOHC inline four-cylinders, each 1.9 liters in displacement. Per the standard of the day, both manual and automatic transmissions were available. Manually-equipped coupes and sedans were among the most fuel-efficient cars available at the time, reaching 40 miles per gallon (17 km/L or 5.9 L/100km) in EPA highway tests.
In the late 1990s right hand-drive versions were exported to Japan. A change partway through the 1999 model year gave the SC a small suicide door.
The S-series was replaced with the larger Saturn ION in 2003.