Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 19:06:28 GMT From: joshuanopsamess.net (Joshua Landess) Subject: Re: SAAB depreciation? / Reliability of late models
On Tue, 02 Jun 1998 11:42:11 -0700, RED <davharnopsamnet.net> wrote: > >I've leased 3 SAABs now and have concluded that there is just too much >depreciation in the SAAB for me to consider leasing another.=20 Yes, I think this is the heart of your matter. Why should you throw that much money away? >I think that if SAAB is going to be more successful in the US market, >they'll HAVE to do something to make leases more attractive. Those on >the NG who take pride in their 84 900s with 250 000 miles probably don't >understand people like me who just want to lease a new car that's >technologically interesting and fun to drive, but don't want to keep it >for years, and who prefer to drive cars that are under warranty. Still, >there won't be any of those old SAABs in the future if the company can't >move new ones today. Seems as if SAAB could produce a neverewnding >supply of 15- year-old cars, they'd be a sales success. > >PS: No animosity is meant to those who like to tinker and get lots of >miles out of old cars, I've been there too. > >PPS: I read in the Sunday paper that SAAB executives have a profile of >the typical SAAB customers as "east-coast liberals" (their words, not >mine) who buy cars with the expectation of keeping them for years tyo >get everything possible out of them. Boy, does that miss me by several >miles! > I read somewhere once a discussion of Saab's earliest forays here in the states, and why they're disproporationately found on the East Coast. Wonder if they're actually committing to a broader strategy or not. JL