The Progress Group Saturn Coupe

Saturn wants you. You're young, educated and financially independent. You also have a consuming desire to buy a cheap car and dump loads of cash into it. To convince you Saturn produces a viable alternative to the more popular compact mounts, the company sent a few cars to some well-known tuners. One car landed in the very capable hands of The Progress Group.

First, the car was a test-bed for lowering springs and a strut tower brace, which will be manufactured by Progress and sold and installed through Saturn dealers. Progress also used the car to prototype a full coil-over kit using its new MacPherson strut coil-overs. Until now, Progress only had coil-overs available for double-wishbone Hondas and Acuras. While it was in its hands, Progress also fabricated new anti-roll bars, a roll cage, and later added other modifications.

As is evident by the choice of a Saturn, Progress plans to offer its new MacPherson strut coil-overs for many of the cars most often overlooked by the suspension aftermarket. When the car arrived at our tech center, it was fitted with everything but the go-fast goodies, which we spent the day installing and dyno testing. We tested everything but the nitrous system from Nitrous Express. The bottle of go-fast crack was conveniently and unfortunately empty.