I’m speechless, but with 36,895 comments, I haven’t always been speechless.  This post is the best prize ever!  Thanks so much, Andrew!

What are the details of his severance package? If he gets a pile of cash and Boeing stock to soften his landing, has he really been punished for his failure of leadership? Which is what a firing would be. Otherwise this is face-saving by Boeing.

I wonder if they are going back to being an Engineering company or not?

Hey! This is exactly the sort of hard-hitting journalism I need to make it through my workday. You leave Torch alone, he’s doing God’s work.

Federalizing a new model type isn’t cheap and the RS6 Avant by itself doesn’t present a good enough business case but throw in the A6 Allroad, now you’ve got something.

Because more choices for wagons is a good thing?

As much as I love the RS6, there is a much better chance of me actually buying one of these. 

Because I might be able to afford a used one of these someday.

Sales of the A4 allroad were strong enough to justify certifying the A6 allroad here, from that point getting the RS6 certified here was easier, since the RS6 drivetrain is already to be used here in two models that were definitely coming stateside.

I have a V-Wagon. I love it. However, I recognize that SUVs and crossovers are currently the vehicles that print money. As long as Cadillac continues to make sedans and (please!) wagons that share platforms with the CUVs, I think they are going to make it.

80% of success is showing up. In this case, showing up means actually building vehicles in segments that are growing (premium crossovers) versus ones that are crowded and the number of buyers is shrinking (premium sedans).

They can’t improve that color though. Delicious.  

Exactly. 2002 was the tail end of the first recession of the 00s.

As a Gen Xer, people seem to forget that we have gone through 2-3 economic downturns in our adult lives. 

Somehow I missed this car completely. But I was paying particularly close attention to the Twinstar. It seemed far more intriguing than a mid-engine car at the time

Whoa, can I have some of those party pills you are taking?

2002 was the height of the dot com crash and one year following 9/11 — America was reeling from a terrorist attack and a huge financial sell-off. Consumer confidence was at an all time low.

I’m always shocked and a little sad when I see a saturn on the road and think to myself that it looks SHOCKINGLY good for a 90's car. I wish the plastic body panel thing held up in the market. They were a good idea lost to corporate poor planning.

The shortest answer is that Saturn was murdered by the inside politics of GM.