Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 12:40:20 GMT From: SnoMan <adminnospaman.com> Subject: Re: Re: GM's excess baggage - Buick, Pontiac, Saab, Hummer
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. There is no easy fix here and they may have to go bankrupt before they figure it all out from top to bottom. Also, I agree that this all started in the 70's to save money and boost profit but rather than putting those increased profit into research and developement it went to bonuses, acuasiitions that later failed and bigger payouts for stock holders. They are reaping today what they sowed years ago. ----------------- TheSnoMan.com
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