No one hated Saturn more than I. They came to Wilmington, took the GM sign down and put up the Saturn sign. They gutted the computer systems that GM used and at that time, tried to run an Assembly plant using Windows NT, I still laugh about that. It failed as expected. They told Wilmington assembly employees that even though Wilmington had been building cars for 50 years, they didn't know what they were doing. I still laugh about that too. I was in meetings with Saturn big wigs in Springhill where they actually thought they would transform GM into their own image. That was the 1st time I spoke up and told Saturn you will be assimilated by GM in the end, they all laughed and said that would never happen. But I saw signs, little ones at 1st and they became bigger as time went on, like a snowball rolling downhill, getting bigger and bigger. The 1st sign was that they moved Ralph Harding who was our plant manager to Springhill. GM then gave us Cynthia Trudell as our plant manager for a few years, soon she was being promoted to Vice President, and Chairman and President of Saturn Corporation, that's when I knew the assimilation had begun, the funny thing is, the same Saturn big wigs didn't notice it. That was a good thing, because by the time they did it was to late, Saturn had become just a shell within that shell, it was all GM, so much so, as of this date Springhill no longer builds Saturn vehicles, but GM vehicles, so assimilation is now complete!
Olds may be gone, but so is Saturn too really, all the old divisions are gone, It's really just GM selling different brands, playing a shell game as it were with the car brands and the consumer. All that's left now is to assimilate Holden and Opel and add them to the shell game too, that is underway, it's just a matter of time now. Resistance is futile, just ask Saturn.
Don't mourn for Olds, it's still there it's just called GM now. Notice all the cars and trucks have the GM Chicklet on them now? I wonder why?