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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:06:15 -0500
From: "Walt Kienzle" <wkienzlenopsam.net>
Subject: Re: GM to increase SAAB lineup


I agree with everything you say, Pablo. While Saab is making their cars more "plain vanilla", I thought that Nissan was making themselves successful by making their cars uglier with each new generation. In the early '90s, I liked the Nissan NX2000 and the Maxima. The NX was discontinued and the Maxima was redesigned to look like it had been driven in reverse into a wall (they may have been doing a bad imitation of a Chrysler 300M). The next redesign of the Maxima had the front end looking like their bottom-of-the-line Sentra model, and the tail lights looked like a tacked on afterthought because someone forgot to include them in the original plans - or they broke off when backing into a wall a second time. The latest Maxima looks like an ugly Altima that has been overinflated. And then they revived the "Z" model as some grotesque characature of its former self. Walt Kienzle 1991 9000T "pablo" <pabloNOSPAMnopsammplyhombre.net> wrote in message news:v9bt0p44fdsm03nopsam.supernews.com... > > I think re-defining the "sports" aspect is key to Saab's future image. Look > at what is making Nissan successsful, and boosting the image. It annoys me > that a brand like Saab, which reached the pinnacle of its reputation with > cars that combines performance with practicality sees its salvation in a > plain vanilla approach and in volunteering for anonymity by simply going for > a "me too" approach. It needs something that refreshes its image. The small > hatch is a better bet to achieve that than the SUV, I think. Everybody and > their dog has an SUV, and no one will ever claim they buy an SUV because it > instills them with a sense of driving passion. > > Saab needs something special. A new generation Sonnet would be utterly cool, > but GM would find a way to base it on the Pontiac Sunfire or something. As > long as they don't base the SUV on the Aztec, though... > > ...pablo > > >

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