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GM Daewoo to sell re-badged Saturn Sky

08/24/2007, 8:10 AM

By Drew Johnson

General Motors has announced it will sell a version of its Saturn Sky Red Line in Korea. The car, named the G2X for “Go to Extreme,” will be sold and badged under GM’s Korean arm, GM Daewoo. The G2X is scheduled to arrive in show rooms on September 1 with a price tag of 43.9 million won ($46,600 U.S.). GM also sells a version of the Saturn Sky in Europe under its Opel brand.

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08/24, 8:49 AM

posted by:

jdepould

How about they stick with G2X and just don’t tell anyone what it means, because that totally ruins it.

08/24, 8:51 AM

posted by:

A4

^i agree with that one, what a stupid xxxxin name

08/24, 9:46 AM

posted by:

jJayC08

The added asthetics only make the car look cheaper, such as the grill new grill insert…

I seriously wish some automanufacturer would come up with some aspiring names, not “MKZ” or “G2X”. Auto designers spend hundreds of hours perfecting their product, yet they seem to not be capable of agreeing on a design name that hasn’t been used yet, and has some provocative meaning other than letters…

08/24, 9:49 AM

posted by:

A4

you mean GO TO XTREME AHHHHHH isnt provocative?

08/24, 9:50 AM

posted by:

A4

and oh man i just realized how big of a douchebag that guy in the first picture looks like

08/24, 10:40 AM

posted by:

55amg

damn this was quite a while back wasnt it

08/24, 11:43 AM

posted by:

maximus

to the Extreme???!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! They should send the first one to Vanilla Ice…what a bunch of tools.

08/24, 12:12 PM

posted by:

LamborghiniZ

Haha this is ridiculous. GM made a decent car, the Solstice/Sky, and now they’re ruining it with so many rebadged versions. Opel has a version, the GT, and now DAEWOO HAS A VERSION?? And they named it the G2X?? AND IT COSTS ALMOST $50,000 USD? I’ll PASS.

08/24, 12:53 PM

posted by:

TOZO

And yet no Vauxhall version.

08/24, 1:17 PM

posted by:

CTS DRIVER

WTF GM, WHY NOT JUST REBADGE THE CORVETTE AS A DAEWOO OR OPAL ALSO, WAIT THATS RITE IT CHEAPENS THE BRAND….JUST WHEN YOU DO SOMETHING SMART YOU RUIN IT…..MORONS.

08/24, 1:49 PM

posted by:

NationsKappatol

they are only making a few hundred of them, selling in a non-competing market, and making a ton on them. The more they can sell wordwide for a ton of money, the better. Plus, it keeps the nice folks in Wilmington hard at work making these things. Doing this is good for the company’s bottom-line, good for the workers (thus the economy) and good for the platform, as they make back their investment on it. It costs them nothing to do this. None of us will ever see a G2X, so who cares?

08/24, 3:19 PM

posted by:

kosai03

I don’t get how this is “ruining it with rebadged version’s.” They’re selling the car under the marques they’re represented by in those countries. That’s like complaining about Honda selling the Honda Integra as the Acura RSX and the Honda Accord as the Acura TSX, or any of the other dozen examples of the exact same practice.

08/24, 4:25 PM

posted by:

Commodore

CTS – what are they supposed to do? Call it a Saturn? Who the **** knows what a Saturn is in Korea. For us, Daewoo is the gayest name in the world but for them it’s like ‘pontiac’ is to us.

08/24, 5:46 PM

posted by:

CTS DRIVER

daewoo is pretty darn bad, i didnt read the whole thing, but since i see daewoos driving around here i just figured we may see a third kappa, but the article does say korea only. my bad.

08/24, 5:53 PM

posted by:

CTS DRIVER

my old tv was a daewoo, won it in a raffle at work, it worked great until i was moving, my buddy picked it up while standing on the power cord and ripped its guts out.

08/24, 6:41 PM

posted by:

Fromes

wow 50,000 us dollars? that would mean a base vette would go for something like 95,000 us…whoa

08/24, 7:32 PM

posted by:

Deanster

50k for THAT?

I would rather buy the RR knockoff from a few posts ago

08/24, 10:10 PM

posted by:

Jimstar

LamboZ being a toolbag as usual. Its only going to be sold in korea…pay attention you test tube baby. This was news about a year ago.

08/26, 12:21 PM

posted by:

AMGoff

damn you all beat me to it… everyone knows Lambo is not only ignorant but evidently illiterate as well.

How the **** is a car that’s going to be sold in another country halfway around the world going to have any bearing on you whatsoever. We’re never going to see the car so what does it matter. Global platforms and badge engineering aren’t necessarily the same things.

08/26, 1:53 PM

posted by:

kayne001

I guess I gotta be the one to say this, nice babes!!!

Oh and the car too.

08/27, 11:53 AM

posted by:

jackjimturkey

Commodore: reminds me of the “Quarter pounder with cheese” explanation from “Pulp Fiction.”

The best “Daewoo” ever

 
 
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