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How Saturn became major player in GM galaxy

From left: GM President Bob Stempel, UAW President Owen Bieber, GM Chairman Roger Smith and Skip LeFauve, Saturn's president, in 1990 with the first Saturn
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By:
Lindsay Chappell
September 14, 2008 05:00 AM
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.

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