Hey, thanks for posting this. I loved it.
As for the article itself, I have a couple of bones to pick with the author...
“The Ion ... was the second-worst car of the millennium and was so bad it killed Saturn.”
I don’t think so. Saturn had a GREAT new re-designed lineup of vehicles the last two or three years it was alive, and would have done very well. I drive a 2008 Sky Redline roadster - GREAT CAR.
We all know who killed Saturn, and half the people in the country were stupid enough to vote for him. Saturn was murdered because it was not a union shop.
He killed Pontiac, too, not the Aztec. Pontiac survived many years after the introduction of that beast. The Solstice, G6 and G8 were good cars, and would have paved the way back.
GM management killed Saturn. They took away their independence.