I was looking at saturn ion's and L300's before I bought my SE. I don't think they are bad looking cars by any means. I even looked into a hyundai elantra GT hatch which I liked alot and felt was the poor man's saab. I was like..."people are gonna make fun of me if I drive a hyundai elantra" and then I realized that I'm driving a ford contour and while I love it, it's no better than the other's as far as "street cred"