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Originally Posted by martinafan
When Saturn was being developed, it was to be GM's answer to all its problem, not only it would compete with the Japs but it would "teach" GM how to make cars more efficiently and with higher quality and this would be used in all other divisions. Well I don't need to recount how they royally screwed this up just like they have screwed up everything else they've done. Now the VOlt is the new Messiah, pleeeze, why on earth would any rational being put down $40k for an unproven,questionable experimental machine when you have other fuel-sipping hybrids available with proven technology at approx half the cost? I suppose they'll be a few treehuggers with $ to spare who might go for it, (look at the Smart) But it wont do anything to take GM out of this mess. http://forum.ecomodder.com/images/icons/icon13.gif |
Good point(s): From my perspective, I was a young kid when Saturn was started and my father along with many other UAW workers were asked to come on down south to work. But most of the workers quickly figured out they had a much better deal staying right where they were. I think part of the problem was they should of got a better deal with the union that might would allowed fresh workers from the street to of been hired in- because the way they did it they tried building a revolutionary plant but they staffed it with the same UAW workers they had back in Michigan... I suspect this might of stiffed some of their creativity in building a newly designed car. It was supposed to of been a car built like the plants in Japan built cars, but I sense it never really fully achieved it's goals.