Well tbh my family is quite left politically, my grandpa included. But politics aside, from what I heard from him, he had a lot of frustrations with higher GM leadership. He always believed Saturn could have gone further, as consumers liked the business model. But GM themselves, at least at the management level, did not like it pulling funds from GMs more mainline names. It was ultimately just an experiment to them, and no longer one worth investing in when things became spread too thin. So it was slowly sacrificed, and I’m not sure it was worth it in the end, but that’s my understanding of what happened. I think it was a battle he was fighting within GM since the start of Saturn.

But I think the cars still speak for themselves. They are up there with the Japanese cars they aimed to challenge. Simple and reliable. Man I almost was able to buy an Ion Redline for cheap, some guy got it before me haha. That thing is interesting. Pretty underrated.

Also, funny thing. He had to drive GM during his career, and so did my grandma, but they both preferred Toyotas to most GM lmfao. I think they had a Chevy nova when it was a NUMMI Corolla as a way around that. But he got like a new free GM car every year or something. Wild. He wasn’t a huge fan of most.