Is nobody mourning the loss of the L300?

I read that the car is being discontinued at the end of this month? Tis
sad since the L300-1 seemed like a bargain fully equipped and will ALL
the safety items standard.

I don't even see anybody in this group even commenting on this. Was the
car that bad? Saturn said that it was a car with no buyers.

Dave

IMHO, Saturn REALLY Goofed up on this one. I hope the future upcoming models
make up for the loss of the L Series. It is a great car that rivaled the top
line imports (Acura, Lexus, Infinity etc.) for half the price. I guess
Saturn just doesn't like to "toot thier own horn" when they have something
good and for that they lost many sales. That's why they discontinued the
L300, what a shame.

The '04 models were the last ones to have leather interiors, the '05's are
the last of the batch and will be cloth and V6 only.

marx404

marx404 wrote:

> IMHO, Saturn REALLY Goofed up on this one. I hope the future upcoming models
> make up for the loss of the L Series. It is a great car that rivaled the top
> line imports (Acura, Lexus, Infinity etc.) for half the price. I guess
> Saturn just doesn't like to "toot thier own horn" when they have something
> good and for that they lost many sales. That's why they discontinued the
> L300, what a shame.
>

The last of "Tooting your own horn" may have a bit to do with it. I
can't recall a single tv, radio or print advertisement in the past few
years.

The nameplate was already changed from an Opel IIRC. Hopefully whatever
Saturn has coming next will have a "manual transmission" option.

In article m>,
says...
> Don't know if I would buy one new but the '01 lw300 I bought this past
> January with 40k miles on it is great (for the most part at least). I got a
> really good vehicle with a lot of extras for not a lot of $$.
> Who knows, it might not really be going away. The way things are going, the
> same design may just be re-introduced with a new nameplate on it from a
> different GM division.
>
> Oppie

amen to that.
we opted for a manual transmission and had to take the LW200 to do so.
Mind we love it and don't regret the decision at all. The money saved
went towards leather interior and some other options.

and the 4 cyclinder 5-speed has plenty of power.... enough for me to get
nailed at a pretty good clip above the double nickel. <g>

To be totally honest, we REALLY loved the SW2 we had previously. The
additional room and easier entry/exit of the LW200 is nice - but the
smaller wagon was pretty perfect.

Worst part of them discontinuing,
1) resale values are plummeting
2) harder to get good service (recently had air in the clutch line and
took several techs to properly diagnose and do the 5 minute bleed).



Blah blah > wrote in
:

> The nameplate was already changed from an Opel IIRC. Hopefully
> whatever Saturn has coming next will have a "manual transmission"
> option.
>
> In article m>,
> says...
>> Don't know if I would buy one new but the '01 lw300 I bought this
>> past January with 40k miles on it is great (for the most part at
>> least). I got a really good vehicle with a lot of extras for not a
>> lot of $$. Who knows, it might not really be going away. The way
>> things are going, the same design may just be re-introduced with a
>> new nameplate on it from a different GM division.
>>
>> Oppie
>

>Jonnie Santos

>It always bugged me (irrationally so) because it was not made at Springhill
>and it seemed to be thrown together from the GM world parts bins of Opel,
>etc. I thought it was Springhill or nothing...

Remember "SaturnGuru " and the guy who worked at the Delaware plant arguing how
they were "real" Saturns ?

I remember when the very first L's arrived. I remeber them hiding them in the
back behind a few wrecked cars so noone would see them. I remember the big
unveiling party the dealer had ...turn out was extremely disappointing ,
especially for a car they hyped so much. Then came all the recalls. I
personally remember the extremely poor quality of assembly when we would do the
predelivery inspections. Reminded me of GM when we would see parts missing from
cars, Firebirds with 1 Camaro seat in them, Sunbirds with Cavalier wheel covers
on one side etc...

Its sad the L never caught on. Was actually a pretty nice car.

....I'm trying to remember what they built at the Delaware before the L - I
started searching in Google and found NG posts back to 1995 (cool)... Wow
the years go by fast.

"Blue87T" > wrote in message
...
> >Jonnie Santos
>
> >It always bugged me (irrationally so) because it was not made at
Springhill
> >and it seemed to be thrown together from the GM world parts bins of Opel,
> >etc. I thought it was Springhill or nothing...
>
> Remember "SaturnGuru " and the guy who worked at the Delaware plant
arguing how
> they were "real" Saturns ?
>
> I remember when the very first L's arrived. I remeber them hiding them in
the
> back behind a few wrecked cars so noone would see them. I remember the big
> unveiling party the dealer had ...turn out was extremely disappointing ,
> especially for a car they hyped so much. Then came all the recalls. I
> personally remember the extremely poor quality of assembly when we would
do the
> predelivery inspections. Reminded me of GM when we would see parts missing
from
> cars, Firebirds with 1 Camaro seat in them, Sunbirds with Cavalier wheel
covers
> on one side etc...
>
> Its sad the L never caught on. Was actually a pretty nice car.