What took you so long? :P
Saturn exemplifies everything that was both good and bad about GM. By the mid-90's, it was the best selling small car in the country and beat the comparable Toyotas and Hondas on reliability, price, and customer rating. Then GM essentially walked away from the brand, because ultimately the blob wasn't interested in small cars. It was as if the attitude was, "ok, we've proved we can do it, now the stepchild should get lost." GM had a success in the showrooms and on the road, and it walked away.
Bob Lutz finally tried to reinvigorate the brand toward the end. The Aura and Outlook were back to back North American cars of the year. But GM's response to another success was to immediately give slightly upgraded clones to the other divisions and leave Saturn as the stepchild.
GM had problems beyond the UAW. That said, I would have stayed with GM through a legitimate bankruptcy. But when zero dumped $40 billion of taxpayer money to bail out the UAW while everyone else got drilled, never again. I just wish people would stop referring the a "GM bailout." There was no GM bailout; GM went bankrupt. There was a UAW bailout. The parasite killed the host, and Obama spent $40 billion to save the parasite.