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Obviously things are starting to take more shape as GM prepares it’s final plan in it’s restructuring.

Still, there has got to be questions.

Pontiac for instance. If it is going to be a niche brand in the Buick/Pontiac/GMC (BPG) channel, then it needs to set a definite image. If the products are going to be G8, Solstice, G5 and Vibe, then the image is very confused. You have two vehicles which set a sport tone in the G8 and Solstice, and two cheap economy cars in the Vibe and G5.

For Saturn, I would not write it off yet. With the stand alone dealership franchises, it would be extremely pricey to just axe it. I would think GM will be aggressive in finding a buyer if they truly do not intend to keep them. Killing Olds cost them billions to get rid of the stand alone dealerships.

Also, I cannot see the Solstice continuing and not the Sky, since Solstice sales and production alone are not enough to maintain a dedicated manufacturing plant.

Lets not fool ourselves here either. The Sol may stay for now, but GM has no product at Wilmington past 2012, and they have shelved engineering work on improvements and redesigns for kappa. By 2012, kappa will have been in production nearly 8 years, and chances are will be in need of such a redesign. Should that engineering work not begin rather soon, maybe within the next year or so, neither car is going to make it much past the first quarter of next decade.