{"id":14599,"date":"2009-06-15T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14599"},"modified":"2009-06-15T14:00:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T21:00:32","slug":"automobile-misc-penske-expected-to-return-brand-to-its-innovative-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14599","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Misc. &#8211; Penske expected to return Saturn brand to its innovative roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mike Rowand, facility manager at Saturn of Jackson, said if anyone can save the Saturn automobile brand, it&#8217;s Roger Penske.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"aa\">On June 5, Penske entered into a memorandum of understanding with General Motors to purchase the Saturn name, its dealerships and certain assets from the bankrupt automaker. If finalized, the agreement will put the Saturn automobile line under one of the world&#8217;s most successful car dealers and parts suppliers in automotive history. Penske owns Detroit Diesel, and the largest car distributorship in the United Kingdom. He is also the same Penske that owns NASCAR and Indy car racing teams.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"aa\">Still, Penske faces an uphill battle to save Saturn.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"aa\">Saturn originally was developed as its own entity when it debuted in 1990&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonsun.com\/article\/20090614\/BUSINESS\/906140304\/Penske-expected-to-return-brand-to-its-innovative-roots\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3701093?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Rowand, facility manager at Saturn of Jackson, said if anyone can save the Saturn automobile brand, it&#8217;s Roger Penske. On June 5, Penske entered into a memorandum of understanding with General Motors to purchase the Saturn name, its dealerships and certain assets from the bankrupt automaker. If finalized, the agreement will put the Saturn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,21,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-nascar","category-new-automobile-products-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14646,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599\/revisions\/14646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}