After billions spent, you still get a Jag, an Aston, a Disco or a Volvo (and at a premium price). Largely because these manufacturers kept their own unique designs and styles and the money went into updating manufacturing processes to increase quality and reliability. Ferrarri and Audi/Porsche had all that plus strong original family members influencing control of management, something SAAB lacks.

SAAB, however, scrapped its traditional unique designs and now discounts its price structure to get larger market shares. SAAB's engineers can't have a unique design for its 100,000 annual run (such as the hatchback or who knows, maybe the manual transmission is next to go) when it forces a higher cost on a companion 400,000 unit production run in Generic Motors due to mandatory sharing of its platforms/parts. So logic dictates that SAAB will be averaged down over time.

As far as SAAB execs (in GM USA) reading any of this and altering their current course, they don't care. They are not traditional car people, they are not SAAB people. Besides, why would a manufacturer care about a board discussion when the cult followers are people who buy used and hold on for ten years and perform all their own work? You can't make money off of a' holes like me that don't buy new every three years and won't pay a dealer $65 an hour just to rotate the floor mats.

Enjoy those used ones while you can. C900s will eventually be as rare as the original Beetles. Your optimism is entertaining, but to be fair, its just a car not the end of the world.

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• Food for thought... Saab, GM, & Ford (long rant), Allen K, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 00:22:32
  • One detail, Wes Miller, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:52:58
  • Re: Food for thought... Saab, GM, & Ford (long rant), jp, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:29:03
  • Long Counter (?) Rant, Justin VanAbrahams , Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:24:01
    • Good points, best, KB. n/m, KB88900T, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:44:34
    • Not sure about that --, Pete Saab 9-5, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:43:40
      • Re: Not sure about that --, RS , Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:05:51
      • Exactly..., Justin VanAbrahams , Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:36:43
  • GM and Saab, Dinger, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:39:31
    • It's a little like beer..., Noel, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:34:16
      • oh and...., Dinger, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:36:17
      • and at the same time it's nothing like beer..., Dinger, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:19:58
        • Re: nothing like beer--more like a commodity..., Noel, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:03:24
    • Ding, Ding, Dinger - we have a winner!, VP, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:02:57
      • "Don't know about running a business" ..., Eli5, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:48:52
    • Re: GM and Saab, Steve L, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:09:01
      • Thanks you for proving my point >>, Dinger, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:58:39
        • Re: Thanks you for proving my point >>, Steve L, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:33:25
          • Dinger & Bruce, don't you remember..., Greg Netzner, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:39:35
            • Re: Dinger & Bruce, don't you remember..., Steve L, Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:23:09
          • Excellent points! Best, KB. n/m, KB88900T, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:52:13
      • The C900 WAS a failure, Bruce, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:08:40
        • Re: The C900 WAS a failure, RS , Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:47:54
    • No, it is not hard to admit, Eli5, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:56:27
  • You miss the point..., pursang, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:28:59 <-- Viewing This Message
    • Shared platforms & engines, Pete Saab 9-5, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:50:37
    • You can still buy a Jag? Where?, Dinger, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:48:46
      • Thank You!, Brian, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:02:52
        • Uh, no, Justin VanAbrahams , Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:30:25
          • OK- my bad on the S-Type..., Brian, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:48:25
        • XJ and XK are still produced aren't they? n/m, Eli5, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:05:56
          • Yes..., Brian, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:24:21
  • The difference is, Eli5, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 08:40:11
  • nitpick... early 90's audis: gen 1 S4 and V8 amazing!, Martin, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 00:49:12
    • I'll second that (Audis)..., Eric Law, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:28:24
      • I'll second that again (Audis)..., Terraplanem, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:47:47

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