GM Decides Not To Produce Vue Variant At Spring Hill GM has rejected Saturn's plans for a fourth new vehicle to be built at its Spring Hill plant. Saturn officials proposed building a derivative of the SUV as the fourth new vehicle, but GM, which is revising its production plans companywide, turned it down.
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GM Design Chief Focuses on Brand Character Ed Welburn, General Motors' global design chief, has created a team that reports directly to him to develop designs and character for each of the auto maker's eight brands. Led by Liz Wetzel, the team is sharpening the design philosophy for each brand and family of vehicles, he says.
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GM Design Chief Says New Products Have Strong Identities With less than a year to go before production kicks off at GM's plant in Delta Township, company officials are starting to talk about the vehicles that will be made there. Among them, the Buick Enclave, which was unveiled as a concept vehicle at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
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GM Likely to Give Sports Cars the Green Light General Motors, out to prove it can build an affordable sports car, will announce early next year that it will produce the Pontiac Solstice, a two-seater that won design awards as a concept vehicle earlier this year, company officials told Reuters. GM is also expected to build a Buick and a Saturn model derived from the small sports car, part of Vice Chairman Bob Lutz's efforts to add excitement to the company's car line-up, which has been criticized for being too bland.
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GM Looking to Make Saturn's Offerings Out-of-this-World Scientists were stunned last week at photos taken by the Huygens space probe that fueled speculation life may once have existed on the Saturn moon Titan. Meanwhile, journalists and Wall Street analysts attending the press previews of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit last week were shocked to see signs of life at GM's Saturn unit.
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GM Makes its Size Count in the Mid-Size Car Arena The all-new 2004 Chevy Malibu sedan is based on GM's 'Epsilon'global architecture and will be available in three trim levels: standard, LS and LT. Production is scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2003 at GM's Fairfax Assembly plant in Kansas City, Kansas.
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GM Plans to Boldly Go After Niche Markets General Motors plans to put three and probably four splashy auto-show cars into production, dropping the big automaker into the middle of hotly competitive niche markets that it has avoided. For consumers, it should mean lower prices and better selections among affordable sports cars and distinctive retro-style vehicles. GM likely will bore into those segments with low prices, high performance and fresh looks — and deep pockets to support its entries with rebates, if necessary.
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GM Releases Names Of New Crossover Sport Vans General Motors announced the names of its four new crossover sport van (CSV) entries that will debut as 2005 models. Delivering an optimal blend of mid-van versatility with SUV-like attributes, the new models take the segment in a new direction and help GM compete across a broader range of the highly competitive people and cargo-carrying marketplace.
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GM Sneak Preview Shows Some Signs-of-Life Vehicles Just about everything coming from Saturn should pleasantly surprise. The midsize Saturn Aura sedan and Sky roadster on the auto-show circuit this year were a hint at things to come as evidenced by the next-generation Vue SUV coming out in early calendar 2007 and the Ion sedan for the 2008 model year. Saturn also gets a new midsize front-wheel-/all-wheel-drive crossover on a new platform--as do GMC and Buick.
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GM to Launch Small Car Blitz General Motors focused in recent years on bolstering its pickup and sport-utility lineup, laid out plans Tuesday to become competitive again in the brutal entry-level car market.
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GM to Spend Billions to Revamp Midsize Lineup GM plans to introduce 10 new or redesigned midsized vehicles through 2005, including new versions of the Chevrolet Malibu, Pontiac Grand Am and Grand Prix, Saturn L-Series, and Buick Regal. Pontiac plans a convertible version of the Grand Am.
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GM Will Dump 'Mini' Moniker General Motors will drop the word minivan and give the Chevrolet Venture and Pontiac Montana a different look when they are replaced for the 2005 model year. Buick and Saturn will add versions for the 2006 model year.
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GM's 2004 Model Year Preview Entering the 2004 model year, General Motors is focused on rebuilding its historical strength in passenger cars while broadening its current strength in trucks.
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GM's Midsize-Car Future Built on Epsilon Platform After years of being trounced in the crucial midsize-car market by the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord, General Motors Corp. is launching an all-out assault with a line of cars that could revolutionize the automaker's lineup.
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Hybrid VUE Delayed General Motors recently revised its production plans for its much-touted series of hybrid electric vehicles. As a result, the Saturn VUE – which was to be the first hybrid SUV – will play a much smaller role in the company's plans.
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