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Delta Township adds production on increased demand for the Enclave, Outlook and Acadia. Looks like the Tri-Lambda CUV's are actually selling. [Freep]
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GM's Momentum Maintenance: More On The Lambda Platform "Stop Sale"
I just got off of the phone with a PR staffer from the General, who provided me with a little bit more detail, but by no means the full story, on the General's decision to put a "stop sale" on the GMC Acadia and Saturn Outlook. According to Lynda Messina, the PR-anista in charge of manufacturing issues for GM's lambda-platformed crossover triplets, the "stop sale" occurred because "a couple of issues cropped up over the past few days...in a test fleet of vehicles." She also claimed the issues are "not safety-related" and "to our knowledge no one has received a vehicle yet...they are only on dealer lots...but I've no idea when they'll be able to start selling." Messina wasn't able to provide any detail on what the specific issues were, but we're told we'll have more information from the General when they see fit to provide it. One assumes it must have been important enough to require them to "maintain momentum" via a halt to sales. More »
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Breaking! GM Issues "Stop Sale" To Dealers On Saturn Outlook And GMC Acadia
Dealers received an immediate stop-action communique over the weekend from the home office at the RenCen of the General's decision to immediately halt sales of the two models in its threesome of Lambda-platform CUV's already on the market, the GMC Acadia and the Saturn Outlook. The communique, which appears to have been so hastily written it misspells "Attention," claims the need to stop sales"...in order to maintain our momentum and successful launch of these products, we are evaluating potential enhancement and inventory upgrade to the vehicles."Because nothing says "maintaining momentum" like a complete halt. Full copy of the alert below the jump. More »
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That's A Saturn? 2007 Outlook To Start At $27,990, AWD Pricing In At $29,990
Well, number two in the threesome of Lambda-platform CUV's — the General's answer to the Ford Edge / Lincoln MKX — has finally finished getting its makeup ready and is ready for the public. The Saturn Outlook joins its non-identical twin brother, the Acadia, in the ranks of "vehicles with price tags." Yes, we know — sometimes kids need encouragement, so sometimes you have to applaud the little things. In this case, we're applauding a price tag that sets it at a level $2,000 cheaper than its badge-engineered GMC sibling, and more than likely cheaper than Buick's Enclave in the woods. You know, the Outlook was always our favorite. Gallery via the link, full press release after the jump. More »
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GM Going Cross-Eyed On Marketing Crossovers?
I know I'm just about ready to smack the next person that calls a wagon a "CUV." I know it's the new hotness of marketing terms, but there's got to be a better way to define vehicles that clearly aren't sedans and yet, don't quite have that Jeep Grand Cherokee / Hummer / Explorer thing going for them. Yes — the technical definition of a unibody vehicle rather than an SUV built on a body-on-frame truck platform should suffice for most of the off-road wannabes — but I'm sorry Chrysler Pacifica, Subaru Outback and Dodge Magnum — y'all are wagons. Suck it up, take it as a loss, and move on. But, we do empathize with the General, who according to Automotive News, is having a bit of a problem trying to figure out what to call the new class of non-car, non-truck, non-suv vehicles they've got coming out over the next year. That'd be the threesome of the Saturn Outlook, GMC Acadia and Buick Enclave. The problem is, the General's already used the CUV classification to describe the Caddy SRX. So let's find out what y'all think. More »
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Ad Watch Exclusive: That's An Opel?
We've been asking that question since the New York Auto Show, when we got our first look at the Opelization of the Saturn brand. Take, for example, the PreVue (hint, hint) concept based on the Opel Antara, Sky Redline based on the Opel GT and new Aura sedan based on the Opel/Vauxhall Vectra. It would appear Saturn's San Francisco treat of an agency, Goodby, Silverstein and Partners, heard some other folks asking the same question. Whoever they heard, the commercial's the latest part of Saturn's "Like always. Like never before." advertising campaign — a blitz, er, one commerical seeking to reimagine the brand as something that doesn't evoke a vegan burrito. Making and selling the vehicles noted above is one way to start that process. More »
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Look Out, Outlook!: First Saturn Crossover Rolls off the Line
This GM Kool Aid sure is delicious. No, seriously, the more orthodox among us will consider the first Saturn Outlook crossover rolling off the line to be extremely newsworthy, while distrusting iconoclasts (you know who you are) will cry "press release"! They're both right. Sure it's a totally fed story, but the Outlook was one of the most promising vehicles we saw at the New York show, so it'd just be wrong not to mention its production has started (well, pre-started; huh?), not at the company's Spring Hill, Tenn plant, but at its new Delta Township plant in Lansing. Now, can we get an invite to the next Saturn-e-que? And will it be in Michigan now? More »
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Dude, What If S-A-T-U-R-N Really Spelled O-P-E-L?
Well Ogre, it seems like every auto journalist sittin' here in the media holding pen is askin' that question. The conversation seems to go something like this: More »
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The Tri-Lambdas Hit The Hotel Coral Essex: The 2007 Saturn Outlook
The first in the trilogy of GM's Lamda platform based vehicles takes the stage, and its the man on the mike we call "Outlook." The Outlooks's a three-row, eight-passenger CUV going into production for the 2007 model year. The other two known Lambda platform vehicles will be the Buick Enclave wagon and a GMC supposedly known as the Booger...err, we mean the Acadia. The Outlook's powered by a 3.6-liter V-6 with variable valve timing. It'll be showing up on the roads with either front-wheel or all-wheel drive with a six-speed auto tranny developed with FoMoCo and having nothing to do with Lamar. More »
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Saturns to Rise in New York: Obvious Astronomy References Continue to Dog Carmaker
Saturn's planning a kind of brand awakening for the New York show — an Opelification, if you will — with production versions of the Aura and Outlook crossover and a Red Line edition Sky roadster. The Sky is the equivalent performance edition to the Pontiac Solstice GXP, powered by the same turbocharged, 260-hp, 2.0-liter direct-injection engine. The Aura is its new, small sport sedan, similar to the Opel Vectra and the Outlook is the first among a spate of new GM crossovers. The company will also roll out a new design concept and show off the Aero-X it unveiled in Geneva. More »
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Spy Photos: 2007 Saturn Outlook
If these spy shots on World Car Fans have been correctly ID'd , it appears a rumor Saturn had shelved its Outlook crossover SUV has been debunked. Built on GM's Lambda platform — on which a range of similar vehicles will be based — the Outlook will be an eight-passenger family wagon, likely offered with a choice of V6 and V8 engines. We'll know more when launch time comes later this year. More »
7:03 AM on Tue Mar 14 2006
By Mike Spinelli
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Latest by rwcmick: The "shelved" Outlook story was a big hoax. You can read the full retraction by Cheers & Gears here: http://www.cheersandgears.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6... more »
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Is Saturn Shelving the Outlook Minivan?
We're stuck using a computer assembled by dyslexic tree frogs in 1938, so things are pretty creaky here, today. Posting more than 100 words at a time is like parsing Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" on an abacus. (Whoops, used up a whole bunch already.) Anyway, Saturn seems to have shelved its Outlook minivan, according to Cheers and Gears. Now pass me a madeleine. [Thanks to Carlos for the tip.] More »
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Oh, Saturn how you tease we lubberly schoolboys in our size-nine Pro Keds, flaunting the name of your new midsized crossover SUV in our faces, yet revealing only a fuzzy closeup on its badge. Your callow laughter is a white-hot ember on our souls. OK, maybe not white-hot, maybe more like "soupy." Either way, GM announced its new 2007 model will be called the Outlook, which the company says "features dynamic design and a refined, sophisticated interior.
As if such skirted language is enough to get us to hand over our juice box.
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Saturn's New Outlook for 2007
Oh, Saturn how you tease we lubberly schoolboys in our size-nine Pro Keds, flaunting the name of your new midsized crossover SUV in our faces, yet revealing only a fuzzy closeup on its badge. Your callow laughter is a white-hot ember on our souls. OK, maybe not white-hot, maybe more like "soupy." Either way, GM announced its new 2007 model will be called the Outlook, which the company says "features dynamic design and a refined, sophisticated interior.
As if such skirted language is enough to get us to hand over our juice box.
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