Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:29:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Craig's Saab C900 Site <c900nospam.apana.org.au> Subject: Re: "Born from Jets" ad campaign - Fact or Fantasy?
Nomen Nescio <nobodynospamm.com> writes: >Both Saab and G.M. have aircraft experience. GM's a bit dated, going back >to WWII, but certainly not irrelevant. >So, the Sixty-four Dollar question is this: Does the Saab automobile >feature any bona-fide aircraft engineering in it's design or is it >fundamentally no different than any other automobile, right down to the >cheapeast on the market? I would say that all of Saab's cars up to the classic 900's at least had aspects of aircraft design. It depends how many of the engineers at Saab at the time had worked on aircraft as well. Indeed Saab still makes aircraft but that part of Saab is totally unconnected now with the Saab car company we know of as part of GM since 1990. >GM you are headed to bankcrupcy and you have only yourselves to blame. >"Born from Jets" my ass. They're just trying to cash in on retro-trendyism after the car market has done a backflip and started designing vehicles that look like concept drawings of 1950's vehicles from the pre-WW2 era. I guess the US market is a bit weird because there it seems that car-mania makes anything 'retro' a Good Thing. I don't consider Saab's post-1980 'retro' yet but I suppose in 10+ years when there are a lot less C900's around they will start to get that title if retro-trendyism is still all the rage is social design circles. Craig. -- Craig's Saab C900 Page --> http://nospam/~c900 Sydney, NSW Australia Craig's Classic Saab Workshop -- For Saab 99/C900/9000 Enthusiasts world-wide! http://www.nospam.net http://www.nospam c900nospam.apana.org.au Come and explore our site, and check out our web-forums, mailing list, etc.
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