rhd saturn HUH!?

[99camaroSS]

ok guys i was driving to school today and i noticed that the car infront of me appeared to have no driver! then i realized that she was sitting on the other side and that the car was infact a RIGHT HAND DRIVE saturn. the car had absolutly no badges of any sort except for the back bumper that has saturn molded into it. Has anyone ever herd of a rhd saturn?

[Satty]

Japanese market Saturns and I'm pretty sure a few were kept in the states for mail carriers to use.

[Cadillacfan]

People can modify/order rhd versions of vehicles that are lhd for purposes such as mail/news paper delivery. Though it's rarely seen. I am assuming that's what the person bought or modifed the car for.

[99camaroSS]

this is what model it was

[daves87rs]

this is what model it was

[post="7274"][/post]

it's what I thought...an s-series mail wagon...they built quite a few on those
at spring hill...you can usually find them in rural areas...

I've seen quite a few in different colors...

[Satty]

Yeah, they sold like 14 cars in Japan back in 1995, nobody bought the rest so they sold them to post offices in the US. *Note: I'm not sure how much of that sentence is true. GM did try to sell Saturns in Japan, it didn't go over well.

[99camaroSS]

it was that exact color and i saw it in suburban st. louis and there was no way the owner was a mail carrier so she must have gotten it off of a used lot or something

[Satty]

I bet it went cheap, since I'm sure it is a huge pain in the ass. Unless the driver was a native of, or spent a lot of time in, one of those countries that drives on the wrong side of the road.

[daves87rs]

It's rare, but you can find one for sale around here.. after the post office is done with them, usually a pizza guy or someone simular would buy it.. Though I know I've seem one get riced out too..

[ImpalaPete]

Japanese market Saturns and I'm pretty sure a few were kept in the states for mail carriers to use.

[post="7236"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post]

Exactly. I see more than a few mail carriers driving RHD vehicles, various manufacturers and models. It definitely grabs your attention when you first notice it. One of my mail carriers drives an old RHD Chrysler K-car wagon.

[Satty]

I've seen a few old Subaru wagons, which really makes sense. They're already produced RHD, so there is no extra R&D costs, they already have cars coming over here, so shipping them was no biggie and they have AWD and a ton of room, both really helpful to mail carriers in crappy weather/road areas.