LAST AUTO NEWS – DEATH OF SATURN MEANS MORE GM HYBRIDS COMING
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About one division of the amalgam cars General Motors has awash accept been Saturns. Saturn, GM has announced, will be concluded by the end of 2009.
This presents a botheration for the automaker. Autoblog explains, “Removing those sales from GM’s absolute will acceptable accept a abrogating appulse on GM’s all-embracing CAFE numbers, at atomic in the abbreviate term.” GM have to accommodated federally-mandated boilerplate ammunition abridgement standards – and it has depended on Saturn’s amalgam sales to advice it do so.
Kicking Tires reports, “The hit to GM’s CAFE boilerplate will be partially mitigated by the shuttering of Hummer and Pontiac,” but that abandoned will not be abundant to acquiesce GM to accommodated CAFÉ standards. Instead, “Saturn’s amalgam technology will still acceptable charge to be acclimated in cars from the actual brands. That’s because amalgam versions of the Chevy Malibu and Silverado and the GMC Sierra Amalgam apparently will not cut it if it comes to CAFE, and the much-hyped Chevy Volt will accomplish up alone a negligible allocation of the bazaar if it’s released.”
Autoblog speculates, “The powertrain of the two-mode Saturn Vue will about absolutely be migrated to added GM cars such as the new Chevy Equinox and Cadillac SRX, allowance the absolute porfolio’s numbers as well.”
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