Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:13:23 +0000 From: Pooh Bear <rabbitsfriendsandrelationsnospamail.com> Subject: Re: Saab to be sold? ...GM Denies!
--------------7994E3BB5A7949AF0EA18139 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tex wrote: > Saab to be sold?... > > http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=7722723 > > The reasons laid out in the article make sense as a last ditch effort on the > part of GM to get some form of return on their Saab venture. However, the > article ignores the fact that GM is now much more intertwined with > Saab...namely through its model lineup: the Saabaru 92x, the upcoming > trailblazer/97x and cadillac BLS to be produced at Trollhattan. It wouldnt > be easy to disentangle themselves from all of that. Your post made me go Google the Cadillac BLS. If GM says Trollhattan's survival depends on that car then Trollhattan's finished ! They actually think that car will appeal specifically to the *European* market ? They're dreaming or on drugs or both. Looks like an undersize Escalade from the front. The ultimate bad taste 'bling' / gangster look vehicle. Saab would benefit from being detached from all those projects IMHO. > An hour later, GM denies... > > http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=7723756 > > Would a sale of Saab be good? It would certainly lose the marketing power > of GM. Thankfully it would also lose the apparent desire of GM to convert an attractively uniquely quirky and technically competent car manufacturer into some halfbreed shadow of its former self. 97x looks to me like Saab meets GMC ! > There'd be no guarantee that Trollhattan would remain open even with > a new buyer. Does Saab need its own manufacturing plant to _be_ Saab? > Would they not be better off spending money designing, engineering and > marketing cars, rather than actually building them? Or perhaps just build > the engines? Only so much is ever made on site anyway. Graham --------------7994E3BB5A7949AF0EA18139 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <p>Tex wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Saab to be sold?... <p> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=7722723">http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=7722723</a> <p>The reasons laid out in the article make sense as a last ditch effort on the <br>part of GM to get some form of return on their Saab venture. However, the <br>article ignores the fact that GM is now much more intertwined with <br>Saab...namely through its model lineup: the Saabaru 92x, the upcoming <br>trailblazer/97x and cadillac BLS to be produced at Trollhattan. It wouldnt <br>be easy to disentangle themselves from all of that.</blockquote> <p><br>Your post made me go Google the Cadillac BLS. <p>If GM says Trollhattan's survival depends on that car then Trollhattan's finished ! <p>They actually think that car will appeal specifically to the *European* market ? They're dreaming or on drugs or both. <p>Looks like an undersize Escalade from the front. The ultimate bad taste 'bling' / gangster look vehicle. <p>Saab would benefit from being detached from all those projects IMHO. <br> <br> <blockquote TYPE=CITE>An hour later, GM denies... <p> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=7723756">http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=7723756</a> <p>Would a sale of Saab be good? It would certainly lose the marketing power <br>of GM.</blockquote> Thankfully it would also lose the apparent desire of GM to convert an attractively uniquely quirky and technically competent car manufacturer into some halfbreed shadow of its former self. <p>97x looks to me like Saab meets GMC ! <br> <blockquote TYPE=CITE> There'd be no guarantee that Trollhattan would remain open even with <br>a new buyer. Does Saab need its own manufacturing plant to _be_ Saab? <br>Would they not be better off spending money designing, engineering and <br>marketing cars, rather than actually building them? Or perhaps just build <br>the engines?</blockquote> <p><br>Only so much is ever made on site anyway. <br> <p>Graham</html> --------------7994E3BB5A7949AF0EA18139--
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