GM's Saturn Suffers Growing Pains

From: The Journal Record | Date: March 30, 1994| Author: James Bennet | Copyright information

DETROIT _ Saturn Corp., the upstart automaker created to revive its parent, General Motors Corp., is having a tough time growing up.

After a dazzling start, Saturn is grappling with too many unsold cars, a three-year old design and some new, attractive competitors entering the small-car market.

At the same time, it must solve a related and even more difficult puzzle: How to fit in with the often fractious, often cash-short GM family of automobile divisions ranging from Cad...

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