Sports Car to Join Saturn Line-Up in 2006
01 März 2004 - 4:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
Sports Car to Join Saturn Line-Up in 2006 Saturn Portfolio to
Expand Significantly During Next Three Years DETROIT, March 1
/PRNewswire/ -- General Motors announced today that Saturn would
add a sports car to its vehicle line-up in early 2006. The product
will be built at its Wilmington, Del., manufacturing facility.
Wilmington is also the future production site of the Pontiac
Solstice. The Solstice and the new Saturn will be built on GM's new
small car "Kappa" architecture. "The future sportscar will serve as
a halo vehicle for Saturn," said Bob Lutz, GM Vice Chairman,
Product Development, Chairman GM North America and
Interim-President GM Europe. "This is a game-changer for Saturn. It
is the first vehicle of its type for the growing brand and
showcases a dramatic new styling direction." Saturn's portfolio is
expanding. In addition to the sports car, Saturn will introduce
three new products during the next 36 months, including RELAY -- a
crossover sport van -- due out this fall, a new midsize vehicle
based on GM's Epsilon architecture coming in 2006, followed by a
larger SUV. In addition, the brand recently introduced a group of
performance vehicles, the ION and VUE Red Lines. Saturn vehicles
are sold by 440 retailers nationwide,a group that leads the
industry in customer sales and service. DATASOURCE: Saturn CONTACT:
Sherrie Childers Arb of Saturn, +1-313-665-4229 Web site:
http://media.gm.com/ http://www.gm.com/
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