Officially Official: Saturn's dead.

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Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - Goodspeed - 09-30-2009

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/30/penske-walks-away-from-saturn-deal-cant-gaurantee-future-produ/

Actually kinda saddened by this one. Given that they were essentially an experiment from the beginning, they were always kind of innovative, they taught GM how to sell cars and make a better product. Definitely not one of those "deserving" brands, IMO.

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - ScottyB - 10-01-2009

pour one out for the lunchbox.

some that i thought were neat:

[Image: 2006-saturn-ion-red-line-with-competitio...88x441.jpg]

[Image: 2006-saturn-ion-red-line-with-competitio...88x441.jpg]

[Image: 0610_z_2007_saturn_sky_redline+front.jpg]

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - BLINGMW - 10-01-2009

A completely unnecessary brand now IMHO. Saturns used to be fairly different than the rest of the line, now they're all just rebadged, reskinned versions of something else. A good call.

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - REED - 10-01-2009

BLINGMW Wrote:A completely unnecessary brand now IMHO. Saturns used to be fairly different than the rest of the line, now they're all just rebadged, reskinned versions of something else. A good call.

I was definitely an opponent of the GM "sell the same car under 4 brands" mindset, and I agree with you that Saturn's were "just rebadged, reskinned versions of something else" but at least recently some of them were rebadged versions of stuff we don't normally get HERE. I'm ok with GM rebadging a Vauxhall as a Saturn.

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - BLINGMW - 10-01-2009

REED Wrote:
BLINGMW Wrote:I'm ok with GM rebadging a Vauxhall as a Saturn.

Good point. But couldn't they just rebadge the same Vauxhall as a GM or one of their other brands if it's selling well? Then they don't have to drag around and promote another brand.

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - REED - 10-01-2009

yeah I see your point there - no need to have another entire brand just to import cars under.

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - .RJ - 10-01-2009

Damn. I want a turbo Sky Sad

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - JustinG - 10-01-2009

i was hoping they would have made a hardtop sky.....SEX

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - BLINGMW - 10-01-2009

white97dsm Wrote:i was hoping they would have made a hardtop sky.....SEX

....um, isn't that.... this?

[Image: pontiac-solstice-coupe-2009.jpg]

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - D_Eclipse9916 - 10-01-2009

Thats a targa Sky, not a hardtop.

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - ScottyB - 10-01-2009

targa solstice (the more you know...)

plus, they built like....8 of them. Sad

i was really hoping to scour the classifieds for one in a few years. they'll all be collectors cars now.

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - JustinG - 10-01-2009

and that thing is FUGLY IMO, sky is mo betta

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - Dave - 10-01-2009

white97dsm Wrote:and that thing is FUGLY IMO, sky is mo betta

I wouldn't go so far as to call the Solstic fugly, but Sky is definitely hawt.

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - fiveoh2go - 10-01-2009

ScottyB Wrote:they'll all be collectors cars now.

:lol:

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - ScottyB - 10-02-2009

fiveoh2go Wrote::lol:

rare, pretty decent sports car from defunct american brand? no? well, give it 30 years anyway....

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - Jake - 10-02-2009

ScottyB Wrote:
fiveoh2go Wrote::lol:

rare, pretty decent sports car from defunct american brand? no? well, give it 30 years anyway....

I mean, the interior is no 1993 Honda Civic DX, but... :wink:

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - .RJ - 10-02-2009

go lunchbox!

[Image: saturn-sky-red-line-002.jpg]

[Image: saturn-sky_red_line_2007_800x600_wallpaper_04.jpg]

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - BLINGMW - 10-02-2009

I dunno, the front of that sky never did anything for me, the Pontiac looks much cleaner. :dunno:

Anyway, they clearly made the right decision, obviously it didn't look nice enough that anyone here bought one Tongue

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - .RJ - 10-02-2009

^ Ban him.

Re: Officially Official: Saturn's dead. - JustinG - 10-02-2009

the solstice looks like a frog....and now that I have said that you will never be able to look at a solstice without seeing the face of a frog