Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 01:19:24 GMT From: still me <wheeledBobnospamo.com> Subject: Re: GM's excess baggage - Buick, Pontiac, Saab, Hummer
On Wed, 02 May 2007 20:36:58 -0400, GlassVial <glassvialnospamAM.hotmail.com> wrote: >This article/link was already posted here earlier (at least to the GM >group) > >Agree with the Buick and Saab dumping, maybe Hummer, but not Pontiac. > >And even still, dumping those 2 brands won't completely turn the ship >around, there's a lot more work to do yet. GM doesn't have a clue. But neither does that writer. They continue to take brands with a loyal following and screw them up. Caddy has a core following - but instead of catering to it, GM continues to build Caddies that are not what the core caddy buyer wants. They did the same thing with Saab - a car with a loyal, almost cultish following. What do they do? They buy it and proceed to alienate the core buyers by pumping in lots of GM parts in lieu of Saab parts. Then, while speaking in the other direction, they re-label the POS Trailblazer as a Saab and rename a Subaru "Saab". While talking about establishing unique vehicles/brands, they continue to homogenize and lose core audiences. In the meantime, anyone who joins management and wants them to move past their moronic 1970's management and production model is quickly forced out. And the article writer says "keep Chevy". It may have a nice ring to it with some buyers, but it always has the worst reliability record of all the GM brands. All very amusing. They
