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Originally Posted by Sean
No it's not, it's an Opel Vectra...totally different car.
Come on, people...
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The Aura was built on GM's Global Epsilon platform. It originated in Europe, but was redone in the states. I wouldn't call it the Vectra.
The Astra OTOH, is pretty much untouched from its European Opel Astra.
The Outlook is a rebadged Acadia.
The Vue is made by GM's Korean division Daewoo.
Sky is a Solstice rebadged.
Saturn lost its drive after 1998 when GM started to take it over.
Even though Saturn lost money each year, the money it lost was low in comparison to say GM's Cobalt or Ford's Focus. There is no OEM in the U.S that can engineer and manufacture a car under 15k and make a profit, without the aid of larger upscale vehicles. If you look at the Japanese cars, the cheap ones are predominantly made in foreign countries, whereas their trucks and midsize sedans here.
Saturn gave GM many many leading edge processes when it came to the dealership, service and parts aspect of the buisness. Saturn was the first to offer "Certified Used Cars", now used almost entirely by each OEM. Their Service Parts Operations and plant part on-time was the best in the industry in the 1990s. Their lean manufacturing and the use of the lost foam technology helped GM produce the variants of the 2.2 and 2.4L ECOTec.