General Motors Will Begin Exporting Saturns to Taiwan

General Motors’ Saturn Corp. will start exporting cars to Taiwan this year, officials said Thursday.

General Motors of Taiwan will import Saturn’s 1992 SL1 and SL2 sedans and the SC coupe. The sales target is 3,000 to 5,000 cars annually, said Donald Hudler, vice president of sales, service and marketing for Saturn.

Hudler said Saturn’s target market will be buyers who own or intend to buy a non-GM product, especially a Japanese import.

“We are confident we can compete successfully with foreign auto makers in Asia,” he said.

The company plans to sell cars in Japan by the mid-1990s.

Bill Betts, a spokesman for Saturn in Spring Hill, Tenn., said he did not know when the exports will be shipped from the plant about 30 miles south of Nashville.

The company says U.S. retailers have delivered more than 86,000 Saturns through January. Canadian dealers have sold 2,500 cars the past four months, it says.