Saturn L200 and L300 Sedan Dropped Last Month Due to Slow Sales
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| GM has confirmed the new midsize Saturn will be built on the same architecture as the new Chevrolet Malibu and Pontiac G6 (shown). (Photo: General Motors of Canada) |
Saturn won't have to wait as long as some analysts predicted for a new midsize replacement for its now deceased L-series sedan, a so reported The Detroit News yesterday, Monday, August 9, 2004.
GM directors confirmed plans to develop and produce its new midsize Saturn on the same architecture as the new Chevrolet Malibu and Pontiac G6. Targeting 2005 as the year to launch the 2006 model year vehicle, Saturn will be without a midsize sedan, the most popular and most competitive market segment in the U.S. auto industry, for at least a year. Midsize cars do
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| The new Saturn will most likely be built in GM's Fairfax, Kansas facility, which currently builds the Malibu and Malibu MAXX. (Photo: General Motors of Canada) |
The new Saturn will be built in GM's Fairfax, Kansas facility, pending negotiations with the local government for tax incentives, which now produces the Malibu and Malibu MAXX, the latter a 5-door liftback version of the midsize Chevy. The Pontiac G6 plant in Orion, Michigan may also be available for Saturn production providing volume levels require expansion, but with G6 sales expecting to be strong, and sedan, coupe and hardtop convertible variants of the car expected, the plant could be fully utilized building the Pontiac alone.