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- THE WEEK, Page 18BUSINESSMaybe a Swan After All
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- GM's Saturn, once scorned, gets high marks for quality
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- For most of its bumpy, 10-year history, General Motors'
- Saturn project was derided by auto-industry critics as a $5
- billion ugly duckling -- an experimental, money-losing attempt
- to match the value and quality of import models. To ensure
- customer satisfaction, Saturn built cars at its all-new plant in
- Spring Hill, Tenn., with the crawly pace of a craft shop. It also
- gained something of a quirky reputation for recalling them at
- the tiniest hitch.
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- Saturn's diligence has finally paid off handsomely with a
- third-place finish in J.D. Power's highly regarded annual survey
- of car customer satisfaction. Not only was that the highest
- ranking achieved by any U.S. make in the respected survey, but
- at an average price of $12,500, Saturn was alone among luxury
- favorites such as Lexus, Infiniti and Acura, all with price tags
- three times as high.
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