At Geneva in March this year the Chevrolet brand unveiled the Captiva SUV, two months later Opel presented the Antara and now Saturn is debuting the Vue in LA. They are all the same car bar minor design differences, the most obvious for the new Vue being the grille and lamp inserts.

General Motors are clearly reaping as much value from this mainstream compact SUV design as they can. It will be an important volume model for Saturn just as it is for the other two brands, and their strategy of using marginal design differentiation for each brand is hard to fault commercially.