October 4, 2009 Spring Hill, Columbia worry about life after GM By G. Chambers Williams III THE TENNESSEAN COLUMBIA, Tenn. — Tom Smith opened the Video Shoppe in north Columbia a year after General Motors announced it would build a new Saturn plant in nearby Spring Hill. To his delight, the automaker put a giant [...]
05 October 2009 RIP Saturn – You Could Have Saved GM GM could have been a very different company today. Unfortunately it missed, if not completely screwed up, the best opportunity almost any company could ask for. How often does a company get the chance to partner and learn from the world’s most successful [...]
October 5, 2009 Japanese automakers fear, admire South Korea’s Hyundai By SARAH A. WEBSTER FREE PRESS AUTOMOTIVE EDITOR If you didn’t notice by its 27% sales gain last month — when the industry toppled 23% — Hyundai is "awesome." http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/Hyundai-i10/243787/" target="_blank">So says Takanobu Ito, the CEO of Hyundai’s rival Honda, according to Autocar. Honda – [...]
Wind-down terms anger Saturn dealers Retailers weigh options in wake of collapsed deal; some to challenge GM’s cash Lindsay Chappell Saturn dealers woke up last Thursday morning to the grim reality that their brand was dead, Roger Penske was not going to save them and General Motors Co. planned to compensate them with [...]
Hudler’s postscript on Saturn: ‘I didn’t expect to finish this way’ Peter Brown At 75, Saturn megadealer Don Hudler figures he’s going to stick with the brand till the fat lady sings. "We’re diehards. We’ll probably go to the bitter end," Hudler, the former chairman of Saturn Corp., said last week [...]
GM ceases Saturn output Company plans to sell inventory in 4 months Jamie LaReau DETROIT — General Motors Co. has halted production of Saturn cars and crossovers and plans to sell the thousands of Saturn vehicles it has in stock within the next four months. Many of the vehicles were built to [...]
