GM will lose just over a quarter of its hybrid sales when the ailing Detroit automaker ends production of the brand with the 2009 model year lineup along with Saturn. According from the source, GM will have a tough time keeping a decent corporate average fuel-economy with the end of Saturn.
Saturn is the most fuel-efficient North American division of GM even Saturn does not offer V8 engines, pickups or body-on-frame SUVs.
Chevrolet was no.1 with a total of 5,838 hybrid sold while the Vue Hybrid and the Aura Hybrid helped Saturn bring in the second highest hybrid sales among GM divisions.
In this summer, the brand has plans to add a more advanced hybrid version of the Vue. Eventhough, with the brand, the advanced Vue Hybrid, along with the plug-in version of the Vue due in 2010, is now dead.
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