Lower the damn price and sell it, you idiots.
I have had two Saturns and loved them. Stupid GM. Never again will I buy one of their products.
destroying America and her economy one piece at a time.
Penske knew a loser when he saw it.
Without throwing off the yoke of the UAW contract and legacy costs there was no way Roger was going to bite the bullet and take this on.
Even if the brand is today profitable and viable without stripping the union of its crippling power no one would buy any part of GM.
This sounds like Penske can’t find a factory to produce new Saturn models that Obama Motors won’t. In this day of sore unemployment, why is Penske having that trouble?
I wouldn’t buy one. I looked at a Saturn up on a lift at a garage, and was amazed at how flimsily it was constructed. I wouldn’t drive one of those things on a highway if you paid me.
Isn’t Saturn one of their most popular brands?
My wife’s 2003 Saturn is DOA, VTI trans went out and was quoted $4,500 to rebuild and only warranty work for 12,000 miles or 1-year.
Book value less than repairs. Will never run again.
Has been down for 5 months, this nails it shut.
I drive a Chevy Silverado Pickup and it will be my last.
Anyone know the timeline for shutting down the dealer network?
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Wasn't Saturn an experiment of NON-UAW at GM ?
If Penske wanted to buy a car company he should’ve bought Opel. And the Smart? Geez.
cheers
Jim
Another lousy Government Motors brand bites the dust.
(Note I did own a SC2 and it was a piece of work).
GM built a “greenfields” plant down in Tennessee, and did not even put their chop on the brand for several years. You had to search to even find the connection between GM and Saturn. Only when Oldsmobile begin to fall out the endgate was there much attention paid to Saturn as a brand.
Saturn NEVER turned a profit for GM. They were a cult vehicle, made to resemble something like the Volkswagen cult that swept America in the 1960’s and early 1970’s, until air-cooled engines became unpopular for ecological reasons. Saturn was a half-hearted attempt to build something engineered here in the US that could compete on a par with Toyota or Honda (they failed). Million-dollar ideas with fifty-cent executions. The engineering was always better than the finished product, but that is a common failing of many products. There was always the inclination to chisel on the quality of the finished product and do the “economical” thing, substituting an inferior (but cheaper) component, in the hopes the failure rate would not be too high.
Sometimes, all the failures came together on one example.
If they thought Saturns were hard to sell before...
A damn shame. The first car I ever bought outright was a 99 Saturn. GM should be flogged for running the brand into the ground.
I have a used Saturn that was made before the government got into the business — 1999. I am really sad to see this. Wish Ford would pick them up.
PS. I love the Saturn; good gas mileage, good handling, good everything. Insurance is less. Maintenance is less.
What to do?