Article: Inside Saturn: GM's radical new way to build cars. (Saturn Corp.)(includes driving impression of a Saturn prototype car)

INSIDE SATURN

A wary group of journalists gathered last fall at General Motors' Mesa, Ariz., proving grounds for its first close encounter with the car called Saturn. This group of auto writers, there to drive prototypes of the top secret GM import fighter slated for release late this year, had little reason to be optimistic. Collectively, they had seen Detroit auto makers fall short in one attempt after another at trying to outdo the Japanese in producing a high-quality, low-cost small car. "Sure, Detroit could build a car as good as the Honda Civic," went the gag among the pundits, "only who would buy it for $20,000?"

By the end of a long day driving ...

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