Saturn News

Well, what is General Motors going to do with Saturn? That's the multi-billion dollar question, isn't it? There’s been talk of spinning the company off and letting it work independently. Others surmise that GM intends to kill it. But now comes word that GM has hired Morgan Stanley to analyze ...    Read more

General Motors is making some very hard decisions. It has already decided to drop or sell many of its brands including Saab and Saturn. Now comes word that it also intends to spin off part of its stake in its European brand Opel and the British company Vauxhall. The plan ...    Read more

What will General Motors do with Saturn?It’s been a question for a while. The recent talk is that the GM division would be killed or spun off. But there are pundits who are saying that it might be best for GM to sell it and they also say that it ...    Read more

As reports surface that General Motors intends to kill Saturn, word coming from Saturn itself is that the company will spin off into an independent marketing and distribution company.Boy, this auto recession and the way the mainstream media is reporting it is making things more confusing by the day. Still, ...    Read more

One would think that the person who led a company during one of its worst times in its history would be criticized by many as the time of his retirement approaches. This is the position of one Bob Lutz of General Motors.The company is on the brink of bankruptcy and ...    Read more

General Motors, facing economic pressures and Uncle Sam, has been forced to make some very difficult decisions. One of those decisions, according to General Motors vice chairman Robert Lutz, is to hand Saturn over to the grim reaper. That’s right. It is expected that GM will kill Saturn. All of ...    Read more

We expect that owners of Saturn dealerships are somewhat nervous. Rumors are strong that General Motors intends to do something with its Saturn brand. There is talks that the company will either sell the division, spin it off, create a partnership, or create a new dualing pattern. Of course, the ...    Read more

Speculation about various brands of the General Motors stable have been swirling in the auto industry press. It is well known that General Motors needs capital. Thus, there has been a lot of talk that the company will be selling more of its nameplates or even take the more drastic ...    Read more

From Nissan attending the 2009 Chicago Auto Show (though not the Detroit Auto Show), a recall on the Saturn Vue, to the price of the all-new 2009 Suzuki Equator pickup truck, here’s some of the latest news found in the autosphere: ...    Read more

As they say, hindsight is always twenty/twenty. Or in the case of a new Saturn SUV recall, hindsight always gives you the clearest Vue, a Vue of an incredibly dangerous build quality issue for these pint-sized SUVs, that is. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently announced a huge recall ...    Read more

Greeting cards from Pictures of Hope – A Linda Solomon Project are now available at various locations. The greeting cards feature photos taken by at-risk children who participated in photography workshops at six different organizations around the country. One-hundred percent of the card sales will ...    Read more

When you are out of money and you need cash to survive, what do you do? You sell your assets, that’s what you do. And in the case of General Motors another one of its assets that it is considering selling is Saturn. The company is already said to be ...    Read more

How GM is positioning Saturn brand to avoid BanGeneral Motors, apparently wanting to increase its presence in the small car market 18 years ago, unveiled a new brand -- Saturn. The foundation of the new company were smaller cars made of dent-resistant bodies that were fuel efficient and affordable. ...    Read more

GM is recalling over 42,000 Saturn Vue crossovers in North America and an additional 6,500 Chevrolet Captiva Crossovers in Mexico.The problem is a loose nut on the power steering line which could lead to a flammable fluid leak causing engine fire. The model years affected is 2008-2009. So far only ...    Read more

While we here the US await eagerly the arrival of the Chevy Volt, the Brits seem to already have some insider info.Apparently, the prototypes will be Opel Astra-based. There's even the possibility of the Volt itself even being spun off the platform. Weight distribution is said to be a sports ...    Read more

There is a lot of talk swirling around that General Motors, desperate to save cash, may be dropping Saturn. On the other hand, Jill Lajdziak, the managing director of Saturn, is pushing back with insistence that the brand is doing quite well. Her evidence? Well, Saturn reached a 20 percent ...    Read more

DETROIT - While Jon Bon Jovi is used to bringing down the house, today he announced the building of five homes in the MorningSide community on Detroit's East Side. On behalf of his Philadelphia Soul Charitable Foundation, Bon Jovi joined Saturn General Manager Jill Lajdziak, Detroit-area Saturn retailers and Habitat ...    Read more

Left to languish in mediocrity after a successful debut, Saturn is once again becoming the Japanese fighting brand that General Motors hoped it would be.It is an odd twist of fate then, that the homegrown rival to Japanese domination of the smaller car categories would base its whole product lineup ...    Read more

It’s funny, but some of us were just thinking that we could get great fuel efficiency with our regular gasoline-powered cars by simply convert them to electric ones.Well, seems like people heard us. Advanced Mechanical Products (AMP) of Cincinnati, Ohio, has come out with a way to convert the Saturn ...    Read more

DETROIT, Mich. – The all-new 2008 Saturn Vue crossover SUV and the 2008 Saturn Sky roadster, which have helped lead Saturn’s aggressive product renaissance, have won their respective segments in the 2008 Auto Pacific Vehicle Satisfaction Awards (VSAs). The Vue, totally redesigned for 2008, placed first in the Mid-Size Crossover ...    Read more

General Motors continues to showcase its HCCI system the world's press. For those of you who are not familiar with the system, HCCI, which stands for "Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition," allows a conventional motor to work as both a conventional gas motor, with a spark plug working in conjunction with ...    Read more

Saturn isn't the first to launch a social networking site based around its products, but it certainly seems to have the loyal consumer base to support their latest venture.Joining automakers like Ford and Pontiac in an ambitious attempt to reconnect their audiences -- as well as build up networks of ...    Read more

One could say that the General Motors division known as Saturn offered so-so vehicles since its inception. The cars were okay. But they just didn’t attract a lot of attention. Things appear to be different today. Perhaps because it has a “young” fleet -- its oldest model is only two ...    Read more

DETROIT - Consumers who want to use their GM Card or GM Flexible Earnings Card toward the purchase of an eligible, new GM vehicle now have the option to purchase or lease a new Saturn under expanded program guidelines. The GM Card and the GM Flexible Earnings Card allows Cardmembers ...    Read more

General Motors' Saturn division has received numerous accolades, including North American Car of the Year for the Aura sedan, with its decision to start selling rebadged European Opels.Latest in this string of Euro-Saturns is the stylish new Astra coupe and four door. As replacements for the hopelessly dowdy Ion, they ...    Read more