On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:33:10 -0700, SMS >
wrote:

>The problem is that they didn't lure nearly enough people away from the
>Japanese products (most of which are not even imports any more). The
>reliability turned out to be a myth, the crashworthiness wasn't there,
>and the prices, while okay in terms of comparative MSRPs, were high
>compared to actual street prices. Saturn got a bad reputation for
>reliability with the oil burning and cracked head issues on the S
>series. It's hard to overcome all this.


Part of the reason for the lack of lure was GM np haggle price that
chased away a lot of sales. They had a interesting concept but lacked
the guts to follow it through. Saturn prior to about 2000 were pretty
well built overall and there is a lot of high mileage mid 90's ones
out there. Now Saturn are getting to be just like other GM cars with
just a different label on them but the same quality and parts under
the skin which will kill Saturn long term. Dumping the plastic body
parts that were a corner stone for its rust resitance. durabilty and
there resitance to bumps and dings will hasen its fall because it will
no longer be different than any other GM car other than styling.
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