Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:45:23 +0100 From: Nel Frikandel <nelfrikandelnospamail.com> Subject: Re: Just Do It GM-Change SAAB into "GMW"...dichotomoy
I read on the dutch aotoweek site that GM are thinking to kill another one of their "classic" US brands... After Oldsmobile now Buick or Pontiac might be terminated... http://www.autoweek.nl/newsdisp.php?cache=no&ID=3475 (in dutch) On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:36:24 +0100, Nel Frikandel <nelfrikandelnospamail.com> wrote: >On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:38:52 GMT, dxyzcnospamam.com wrote: >> >>I am in the latter group as well. Face the facts: platform sharing is >>here to stay. Ever car maker is doing it. But making the next 9-3 in >>Germany with the Vectra is going a bit far. > >About a s crazy as making the new Cadillac BLS in Sweden... >However I saw some pic's and the car didn't look half as bad as I >feared, I doubt if the Cadillac brand will be a success here, even >with this "local" product. The Cimarron of the 80's was no big success >on either side of the big puddle. That also was a plain 4 Cyl Opel >rebadged to GM's luxury brand. > >I wonder what's gonna happen now since they renamed DAEWOO to >Chevrolet in Europe, the association of the brandname Chevrolet from >"Big American" and "V8" will change into "Cheap Korean"...