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What Car Company Do You Wish Still Built Cars?

Signage remains on the sales lot of the closed Saturn of Colma dealership September 30, 2009 in Colma, California. General Motors announced today that they will close its Saturn brand after negotiations with Penske Automotive to sell the brand fell apart.
Signage remains on the sales lot of the closed Saturn of Colma dealership September 30, 2009 in Colma, California. General Motors announced today that they will close its Saturn brand after negotiations with Penske Automotive to sell the brand fell apart.

Some car buyers are simply looking for a way to stay in their comfort zone when going from dealership to dealership, and a few manufacturers are still coasting on reputations that they no longer deserve to drive sales. However, the models and manufacturers we might feel most at home with could no longer exist despite the quality vehicles they produced in the past.

What car company do you wish still built cars? My pick has to be Saturn. The now-defunct General Motors brand initially produced forward-looking cars aimed at younger customers. However, Saturn eventually became the medium for GM to distribute badge-engineered European models across the United States. The brand was culled as a part of GM’s bailout from the federal government during the Great Recession in the late 2010s. Penske Automotive Group attempted to buy Saturn, but the deal collapsed.

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