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...executives of General Motors thumbed through the December issue of Automobile Magazine, they found an unpleasant surprise. There, in a series of high-quality color photos, was GM's top-secret Saturn automobile, which the company has spent $3 billion to develop and plans to roll into showrooms late next year. What really sent the motor moguls into orbit were signs that the Saturn pictures, along with shots of the 1993 Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird in the same issue, had been leaked to the trade magazine by an employee in GM's design studios. Unlike the grainy, long-distance...
...company is particularly incensed because the Saturn, which will carry a sticker price of around $12,000, represents the biggest U.S. automotive gamble in years. Launched by Chairman Roger Smith in 1982, Saturn was designed to give GM a small car that would outsell imports from Japan. Said Smith in the mid-1980s: "We believe Saturn is the key to GM's long-term competitiveness, survival and success as a domestic producer...
...future looks oddly familiar. The purloined photos include shots of a two-door coupe that resembles Chevrolet's 1989 Geo Storm, as well as pictures of a four-door sedan that Automobile Magazine said "could fit right into Oldsmobile's lineup." The magazine added that Saturn's mechanical features, also leaked from within GM, were not "particularly innovative." With advance notices like that, GM might do well to devote as much energy to Saturn's continued improvement as to the search for the culprit who leaked its photos...
Local stations use satellites to expand their newscasts -- and their profits. GM is angry over leaked pictures of its top-secret Saturn. Sony and Warner strike a deal...
...underlying realities or throw them into greater relief. Because every patch of earth, no matter how remote, is littered with discarded film cans, cameras have to patrol the far edge of the solar system to find sights that still rank as exotic. Bring us the rings of Neptune. Saturn's we've already seen...