Key Saturn events
1990: Saturn entered market
1995-98: Saturn topped industry in J.D. Power measure of customer sales satisfaction
1999: Saturn expanded into mid-sized car market with second factory in Wilmington, Del.
2002: Saturn ranked No. 1 in industry customer satisfaction for service, according to J.D. Power
2007: Original Spring Hill plant ceased Saturn production
With the mammoth Saturn project, General Motors set out in the 1980s to find a new way to manufacture cars in America.