Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 15:03:11 -0500 From: tom reingold <tlr244nopsamnline.net> Subject: Re: GM plans Saab Restructuring
Kenneth S. wrote: > I think most Jaguar owners would agree that the Ford acquisition of the > company has been beneficial -- except for those owners who (according to > a Wall Street Journal story a while back) were deprived of > conversational opportunities arising from colorful stories about their > Jaguar breakdowns. > > The same may happen with the GM ownership of Saab. Speaking as the > owner of a 1996 900 SE, I think that would be good, although it comes > too late for me. I hope, however, that GM will rethink the decision to > abandon hatchbacks. They may be getting out of that market just as > other manufacturers are getting back into it for the U.S. Yeah, what's the deal with hatchbacks? I don't so much blame the manufacturers as much as the buying public. In the US, hatchbacks have fallen completely out of style. Station wagons, though, are coming back, and if you think about it, are almost the same thing, marketed differently. I visited Paris in July 2002. Almost every car there is a hatchback. Only the expensive ones have trunks. Actually, that still confuses me. Why are hatchbacks associated with lower priced cars? Hatchbacks are just better in every respect, as far as I can tell. And Americans just don't seem to get it. -- Tom Reingold Noo Joizy
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