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kap17 - don't know if this applies, but mine was a '97 and Phil is talking about a '99.

In the '90s, Saturn ran a lot of their own show, and they did well. Happy customers - so happy some of them formed a club (no, I'm not quite that geeky.)

However, between then and now, GM (which owned Saturn but had a loose relationship with hit) moved it and started running it like ...well, like GM. Hence the POS you test-drove.

Again - this is pure opinion, I can't pull any numbers to support what I'm saying.

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The second seems to indicate it was production problems around the turn of the century that really caused Saturn's slippage - whether GM was a cause or a result is probably hard to tell.

People who drove early Saturns are likely to blame GM, though, as they were so pleased with those early Saturn days.

Does this have anything to do with the topic? I'm not sure...