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Thread: GM to shut down saturn
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1st October 2009, 16:31 #1
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1st October 2009, 18:34 #2
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Will be interesting how this affects the Opel sale.
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2nd October 2009, 02:22 #3
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GM had to shut down Saturn, because Saturn sold the Astra. Just like GM also had to shut down Pontiac because they were selling the G8 and previously the GTO.
The American car industry has lagged behind the rest of the world in terms of innovation and quality build for years. When the General was shown that it's own subsidiaries were producing quality product that made their own domestic produce look like kaka, the managers at Detroit decided that they had to kill it all off.
I hope that Opel/Vauxhall is sold off, because they don't need to be dragging along the lumbering Detroit Dinosaur. If Opel were to sell cars to the US directly, they might make a killing.The Old Republic was a stupidly run organisation which deserved to be taken over. All Hail Palpatine!
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3rd October 2009, 20:56 #4
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Originally Posted by Rollo
The Astra and G8 are awesome cars...but no one in Detroit ever seemed to grasp that they could build those cars instead of some of the dreck they forced the company to build.
One of the greatest wastes of resources going GM was...."Water for my horses, beer for my men and mud for my turtle".
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