 being subsidized by the sale of a Cadillac." As if that were a sin. But, really, that's exactly how it SHOULD have been, given Cadillac was going down in flames and Saturn was rocketing into outer space. Saturn was an investment in the future, Cadillac was the dying cash cow that rightly ought to have been milked to fund that investment.
No, it was GM leadership's bruised egos & reputations, their thirst for power & control, that led to them to carve up an operation that was wildly successful from almost every angle … into just another failing duplicative (eg, Pontiac Solstice vs. Saturn Sky) GM car division. When GM already had more duplicative failing car divisions than it needed.
There's been plenty of times since then, including one bankruptcy, that GM leadership would have sold their grandmothers on eBay to have a car with American sales of 250,000 units/year, even if it only paid off the monthly rent and the light bill. Now even that point is moot, since GM leadership has lost so much of the American market share that they are pulling the plug on Detroit and moving to China.
The point of killing Saturn … as is the point of everything GM does … was to ensure its pin-head bean-counting executives remained a bunch of top-floor, do-nothing, know-nothing, country-club-dues-paid, 1% elitists.
If the reader has any doubt of the detachmment, incompetence and elitist mentality of GM leadership, give a quick flip-through to "On A Clear Day You Can See General Motors," John DeLorean's insider look at GM leadership in the 1970s.
Rip Hummer if our tax payer money is saving company’s they should of only saved Hummer instead of GM lmaooooo
Haha I don’t think it would of survived regardless if they never made a profit even though they sold a million cars, profit as in they made it out of the excess of the original cost to make the company
Let's not also forget they invented their own electric car that was lease only, and they recalled them all after realizing that they were unbreakable. The motor gear brakes for you, slowing you to a stop even though it had ABS, and that regenerated electricity. GM can suck dick.
Dont let anyone badmouth Saturn. I owned 1 and it was a beast. Nothing broke mechanical wise, but the interior was 90% plastic that looked like leather.
I miss my Saturn a lot. It was my first car. I got a job in outside sales, and my 185k mile SC1 coupe wasn’t going to cut it.
It was so easy to fix. My water pump went out, and it cost me $39 lol.
Still miss that little guy.
I'm a firm believer that our government created the oil crisis in the 70's because they were working on new and different trade deals that would benefit them and one of those in particular was the import car market gee how convenient, they not only managed to take away real good vehicles and neuter major automakers but they also created a monopoly on the automotive market thus making the foreign market cost for a smaller cheaper vehicle cost as much as a fully equipped America vehicle with far less quality and likability. Big brother government does not want you the working class people to be able to afford great things at a great price instead they mark up the costs so much an average basic vehicle cost more then it actually should thus working with the banks created the financing/leasing system.., hmm seems everything does exactly what I stated benefits government not you think about it
I had an SL. Little bastard was quick and survived an unoccupied trip down a wooded hill with barely a scratch.
Does anyone here in the comments have a Saturn coupe from 1991-1996 models, I do and I love it, I’ve had 3
The Up to Speed on Saturn that James won't do. Rebel Nolan, fight the power
I used to work at a Saturn Auto body dealership repair shop. Actually they are very well-built car the car can literally be taken apart with a few torx bit and a 10 mm socket
Nuts to Saturn. R.I.P. Pontiac.
Why didn't GM just make the astra a Saturn and used the 1.8 petrol and the main engine it's got some go and the gsi modles are super quick could've done really well in the us I reckon
sl1 was my first car and shes still going strong for 3 years now..... may have just deleted the muffler a week back tho
I drove the T/C Sky with a tune and downpipe. Thing pulled pretty damn well actually. Super fun car imo. I wouldn’t buy one myself though
Im surprised, a csr guy like me doesnt lmow this kar lol, probably because its american
Funny, the Vega and Chevette were also rebadged Opals.
Loved my 1992 Saturn SL1. Still have fond memories. Loved the dent resistant panels and the the exhaust system ( never needed replacing)
What about the sky?
I miss my Saturns (the first was a lease, the second one totaled out due to accident).
My brother and I race at a local clay durby track and the 95ish saturn sl2 stick shifts are almost the preferred car.
It's a myth that "American car makers paid no attention to gas mileage". What were the point of sale for the likes of Ramblers and Valiants? Answer: budget/economy cars.
Another myth U.S. Automakers "didn't care know how to make small cars". The fact is, they could not afford to make compacts because the profit margins were too small to build them to higher specifications.
The demands on autoworkers extensive and generous benefits accounts for a large portion of this handicap. Foreign makers do not have the associated exorbitant labor costs.
This same principle is why U.S. Automakers today are going as far as dropping all production of non-speciality/sport automobiles and are otherwise focusing exclusively on trucks, SUVs and vans. It's the only way they can make any profit.
The myth that 'American car companies don't know how to make small cars' are the kind of phrases that get repeated so much that "everybody knows it must be true", when it is not.
My 2007 Saturn Aura is amazing and super reliable the only things that went wrong were things i hapened to do
What is that background music in the beginning? I need that in my life!
I'd love so much for Pontiac to come back somehow. I loved their cars as a kid.
And they were Ugly as fuck.
I owned an SL1 drove it to 250,000 miles, then I bought a 2006 Saturn ion redline that car was awesome and I still own it to this day It has 180,000 miles and still running strong!
My first car when I got my drivers license in fall 2005 was a 1993 Saturn SC-2. It was a cool car, but even for an economy car the interior plastic felt cheap and rattled around a lot. I drove the car for less than a year before I had a low-speed crash with a parked car and messed up the front end and got rid of it. During the time I owned it, we had the alternator replaced THREE TIMES. Either we kept getting dud alternators, or something about the car kept eating up those alternators!
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