General Motors Is Shutting Saturn Cars

GM has been trying to make a deal (buy the Saturn line) with Penske Automotive Group owned by a former race car driver and auto dealer magnate Roger Penske but the deal collapsed after Penske was unable to find a manufacturer to supply new vehicles when GM stops making Saturn vehicles. GM will still continue to build the Saturn Aura, Outlook and Vue cars until 2011 but after 2011 Saturn has to come up with its own new cars made by a different manufacturer. Absence of any manufacturer to make the new Saturn, Penske does not want to take the risk of acquiring Saturn.

Saturn started in Nov. 1983 but was not officially launched until 1990, to compete with the growing of Japanese cars in the U.S.