Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 12:36:09 -0500 From: "Walt Kienzle" <wkienzlenospam.com> Subject: Re: GM's excess baggage - Buick, Pontiac, Saab, Hummer
"BoobooBear" <Boonospama.com> wrote in message news:4645d1a5$0$8448$822641b3nospam.adtechcomputers.com... > GM could actually keep all the brands if they knew how to make cars the > peeples wanted. There problem is styling. Most GM cars are now styless, gm > thinks they can compete by making all there cars look like every other > bland silver metalic car on the road. When they learn that they need to > begin building a car with nice contoured eye catching lines that makes the > customer step back and say "that be one nice looking car". But GM doesnt > get it, so hasta la vista. I think GM's problem is that they are making cars for their perceived target market: Rental Car companies. They don't care what the rest of us with our one-off purchases think. This comment is made a bit tongue-in-cheek, but what else explains the bland products they are making more of lately? Products only a rental car company would want. GM's misreading of what the general public wants goes back many years. When I bought my first new car in 1990, I ended up with a Ford Taurus even though my dad was a GM employee and UAW member. Back then, GM had survey results that said their customers didn't want front passenger airbags. So they installed seat belts attached to the doors as passive restraints. I didn't want airbags, but those stupid seatbelts were even less desirable. Today: I want a mid-sized or full sized sedan with a stick shift. What is available from GM? I couldn't find anything. I bought a 2.3L Ford Fusion that I will drive until Saab brings their BioPower equipped model to North America.
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