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    General Motors is throwing together its viability report for the feds before the automaker's homework is due on February 17th, and a large part of the plan is to eliminate its most unprofitable brands. GM execs have said on more than one occasion that the automaker's core brands – Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC – are the vehicles (pun intended) to bring the General back from the brink, but where does that leave HUMMER, Pontiac, Saab and Saturn?


    What's going to happen to Saturn... next week?
    by Damon Lavrinc on Feb 9th, 2009 at 4:00PM



    General Motors is throwing together its viability report for the feds before the automaker's homework is due on February 17th, and a large part of the plan is to eliminate its most unprofitable brands. GM execs have said on more than one occasion that the automaker's core brands – Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC – are the vehicles (pun intended) to bring the General back from the brink, but where does that leave HUMMER, Pontiac, Saab and Saturn?

    According to a report from Automotive News, Saturn dealers are well aware that their brand hasn't made the cut and that after a two-day meeting last week between GM and the Saturn Franchise Operation Team, a handful of options are on the table. GM's marketing chief, Mark LaNeve, said that the options include, "everything from a new dualing pattern to a spinoff to a partnership to an outright sale." LaNeve goes on to say, "Everything is fluid. You can't commit to any option... I'll say this: You don't need four options to kill a brand."

    Saturn's uncertain future is apparently apparent on the showroom floor, with customers reportedly voicing their concerns about the brand's future and the availability of parts and service.

    Hopefully, once GM files its viability plan on the 17th, all of the details about the automaker's brands will be disclosed. Dealers don't seem too optimistic, including Todd Ingersoll, a member of the franchise team and the owner of Saturn of Danbury and Watertown in Connecticut. He thinks after the report is filed, GM's decision on Saturn will be disclosed "within hours."

    [Source: Automotive News – Sub. Req.]
    I see Joe posting a lot in this one....

    Anyhoo this basically just says the final decision on Saturn will be made within 24 hours or so, whether or not it will live on, be sold, axed, etc.

    On another note. The Saturn dealership in Watertown is about 10-15 miles from me! (?) That was actually the first dealership we went to to look at cars the summer after I turned 16. (It was the only one open past 5pm ). On that road there's a Saab, Audi, BMW, Nissan, Hummer, and one other dealership besides the Saturn one.

    I will update this thread with new info as it comes out. I made it a sticky. I will edit the title as well.
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    My progression thread
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        Re: Saturns Fate will be set in Next few Days

        By saturns fate, do you mean Joe's fate?

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        • #5
          Re: Saturns Fate will be set in Next few Days

          Originally posted by newbiestyle
          By saturns fate, do you mean Joe's fate?
          unfortunately yes. Joe i hope you've been looking around man. beat everyone to the available jobs.

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            Re: Saturns Fate will be set in Next few Days

            Originally posted by newbiestyle
            By saturns fate, do you mean Joe's fate?
            Not necisarily. GM could choose to sell it, and they also commited to funding it till 2012.
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                keybor not orkin to talk.
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                  Re: Saturns Fate will be set in Next few Days

                  Originally posted by jedi3
                  keybor not orkin to talk.
                  Go get a new one
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                  2009 G8 GT SRM Premium Package, 6000K LED + HID Lows, Factory Bluetooth Retrofit, Atari Gauges, Factory iPod Control, 93 Octane Diablew Tune, Vararam Intake, MBR Strut Bar, Corsa Catback, DBA 4000SX Slotted + Drilled Rotors, Hawk Ceramic Pads.

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                  • #10
                    Re: Saturns Fate will be set in Next few Days

                    I'm biased against Saturn... still think they were the main reason Oldsmobile had to die.

                    So I better shut my mouth.
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                      Re: Saturns Fate will be set in Next few Days

                      Originally posted by ToniCipriani
                      I'm biased against Saturn... still think they were the main reason Oldsmobile had to die.

                      So I better shut my mouth.
                      too late!!!!


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                        Re: Saturns Fate will be set in Next few Days

                        I just got to work and was given this, also Saturn will be speaking to us this week!

                        ps
                        GM see how saturn does things! they will be talking to us first before makeing it offical!!!!!

                        Breaking News: Saturn to be Spun Off from General Motors, Brand to Return to Its Roots as a Different Kind of Car Company

                        http://www.saturnfans.com/company/break ... car-compan

                        Originally posted by saturnfans.com
                        Hot on the heels of Rick Wagoner's announcement yesterday evening that Saturn faces an uncertain future at General Motors, comes news that plans have already been set in motion to separate the import-fighting brand from the faltering auto giant. The resulting entity will be a new, independent car company that's able to source cars from other automakers built to Saturn's specifications.

                        A reliable source tells SaturnFans.com that a small subcommittee, operating under the Saturn Franchise Operations Team (FOT), has been created to guide the formation of Saturn Distribution Corporation and its separation from GM. An outside consultant has reportedly been hired to work with investors and retail store owners to take Saturn private. Saturn's customer-friendly, consumer-focused, and right-sized retail network is attractive to outside financiers who are interested in helping return Saturn to it's former glory as a "different kind of company." As Wagoner confirmed during a news conference Monday evening outlining GM's updated restructuring plan, the newly independent Saturn will continue to sell GM-sourced vehicles until 2011.

                        In the meantime, SaturnFans.com has learned that one of the brand's first orders of business will be to add a new small car to the Saturn fleet. Additional vehicles will be added to the lineup before the current GM-built models reach their end-of-life. A letter and video has been sent to Saturn retail store owners describing the new plan.

                        This most recent turn of events caps more than two months of uncertainty surrounding the Saturn brand. During that time, several thousand fans signed SaturnFans.com's "Save Saturn" petition, pleading GM to keep the company. While that scenario didn't exactly play out, we now have a situation that presents even more promise and opportunity: Saturn's lineup will no longer be a function of whatever other GM brands are selling. This new development opens a new chapter in Saturn's history with a renewed focus on the mission and values originally put in place by the company's founders. Retailers' vested interest in the success of the new company means that they'll continue to take care of customers in the same award-winning way that the original Saturn used to revolutionize the auto industry almost twenty years ago.
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                          Re: Saturns Fate will be set in Next few Days

                          Just please done import cheap cars from china or India and rebadge them as saturns please no!!

                          My progression thread
                          Car: Black 2007 G6 V6 Sedan
                          Done: Debadged, 20% tint, Stage 3/4 CRAB Intake, 08 radio w/aux, leather wheel and radio controls, DDM Tuning 6K HID's
                          In Process (waiting on the install): Black Window Trim, GTP rims, Red painted Calipers
                          Near Future: Red Angel Eyes, Cquence rotors, color matched headlights, LED tails+3rd brake light
                          Down the Road: WAMS tune

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                          • #14
                            Re: Saturns Fate will be set in Next few Days

                            Does this mean you'll keep your job there Joe? Or you don't really know yet?


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                            • #15
                              Re: Saturns Fate will be set in Next few Days

                              That's somewhat good news to hear! I hope this pans out they want it too. How funny would it be if saturn makes a tremendous come back after gm sells it... and makes GM look like fools.

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