Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 09:54:00 -0400 From: "Mike Hunter" <mikehunt2nospamcity.com> Subject: Re: Re: GM's excess baggage - Buick, Pontiac, Saab, Hummer
"SnoMan" <adminnospaman.com> wrote in message news:3ilj33p1ghcbu9gfrg8j5dihp3ros4e610nospamcom... > On Thu, 03 May 2007 01:19:24 GMT, still me <wheeledBobnospamo.com> > wrote: > >>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. > > > I mostly like your logic and comment. GM has two big problems that is > killing it. One is upper management or think tanks that trys to set > their product designs and course (and poorly too at times) and the > other is general labor costs that drives them to use more "common" > parts built by cheapest third party bidder and build several > model/brands on same line. <snip> > ----------------- > TheSnoMan.com
