"The foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back."
To: Kartographer
I will guess that Government Motors tried to extort more from Penske than Saturn was worth....
hh
2 posted on
09/30/2009 2:10:29 PM PDT by
hoosier hick
(Note to RINOs: We need a choice, not an echo....Barry Goldwater)
To: Kartographer
That’s too bad. Just when Saturn was getting cool.
Oh, well.
3 posted on
09/30/2009 2:10:40 PM PDT by
al_c
(http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
To: Kartographer
That sucks. I’ve been a loyal Saturn driver since 1999.
4 posted on
09/30/2009 2:13:34 PM PDT by
Xenalyte
(Don't threaten me with a good time.)
To: Kartographer
5 posted on
09/30/2009 2:14:11 PM PDT by
kromike
To: Kartographer
6 posted on
09/30/2009 2:14:16 PM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Kartographer
Eliminating the competitors. . . IMHO
7 posted on
09/30/2009 2:15:21 PM PDT by
RatRipper
(I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
To: Kartographer
Shame but it’s got to go if we are too be a non-auto producing country, soon we can be like just Kenya.
9 posted on
09/30/2009 2:18:45 PM PDT by
Cheetahcat
(Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
To: Kartographer
I guess I’m going to assume, since GM is ran by the unions now, that the sale was contingent on the labor agreement, and the attending lack of any kind of profitability, coming along with the factory. After all, why set up a competitor that automatically has an advantage?
11 posted on
09/30/2009 2:24:12 PM PDT by
SoDak
(bitter clinger)
To: Kartographer
gosh, what a shame!
suicide by unions.
hmmm.
22 posted on
09/30/2009 2:40:12 PM PDT by
ken21
(i am not voting for a rino-progressive.)
To: Kartographer
Bought a 98’SC2. After 40 some odd thousand miles the under-speced valve body in the auto trans did what penny pinched under speced crap valvebodys do...it warped and died.
Any new company trying to win drivers over, that doesn’t understand that a drive train has got to be bullet-proof, is too stupid to live. Goodby Saturn, can’t say it’s been fun. You built crap.
26 posted on
09/30/2009 2:45:53 PM PDT by
TalBlack
To: Kartographer
Production workers, dealers, mechanics and many other support jobs gone away for good.
Obama you just lost another 50,000 jobs, what are you going to do now?
Obama: "I'm going to Copenhagen."
27 posted on
09/30/2009 2:50:24 PM PDT by
Harley
(Life is Tough, But It's a Lot Tougher When You're a Liberal. Stop Global Whining Now.)
To: Kartographer
My 1994 Saturn SL2 just got a brake job. It has about 110,000 miles on it. Still running fine. Too bad Saturn is going away.
28 posted on
09/30/2009 2:51:16 PM PDT by
Myrddin
To: Kartographer
That is a real shame. I had hoped that Penske would have been able to save at least this. Nice going, GM, you’re done.
30 posted on
09/30/2009 2:55:08 PM PDT by
SueRae
To: Kartographer
I don't think Saturn made a dime from day one. The real prize here is the dealer network, which features the cream of GM dealers. If I were a dollar-rich Chicom automaker, I'd pick up the entire package and start funneling my cars through it.
32 posted on
09/30/2009 3:07:03 PM PDT by
Jagman
(They comport, We deride!)
To: Kartographer
No great loss, those were pretty weak cars.
Back in Dec 2000, I was hit in the rear of my Suburban by a Saturn while I was stopped for a red light. The result was $298.00 in damage to the Suburbans ear bumper and over $3,000.00 to the front end of the Saturn which was pretty much totally demolished.
38 posted on
09/30/2009 3:38:35 PM PDT by
dglang
To: Kartographer
I have had a little insite into GMs management practices lately. GM deserves to die.
To: Kartographer
Gee! And I thought Penske would repackage the Saturn as a COT for NASCAR....
43 posted on
09/30/2009 4:39:52 PM PDT by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: Kartographer
Ironic that Saturn was all about trying to break out of the UAW mold of building cars.
44 posted on
09/30/2009 4:44:05 PM PDT by
CodeToad
(If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
To: Kartographer
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?
50 posted on
10/05/2009 9:28:09 AM PDT by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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