[Main General Bulletin Board | BBFAQ | Prev by Date | Next by Date | Post Followup ] Member Login / Signup - Members see fewer ads. - Latest Member Gallery Photos I agree Like This Post: - Subscribe to Daily Digest for this Bulletin Board Posted by AdamB [Email] (#3) [Profile/Gallery] (more from AdamB) on Mon, 17 May 2004 22:04:10 In Reply to: Move Open to Interpretation (Rumbling), Dan W, Mon, 17 May 2004 18:17:29 Alert me when someone posts in this thread: Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup

When you're selling a product, you don't earn money by reducing spending at all costs. You do it by making a better product that can compete in the marketplace.

Just this quote makes me worry for Saab's future:

"Engineers at the company's Saab unit, for example, are "completely separate" from their counterparts at Opel, he said, developing separate wiring harnesses, air conditioning and suspension systems on vehicles "essentially based on the same architecture" as certain vehicles made at Opel.

Whether a Saab 9-3 has the same climate-control system as an Opel Vectra or a Vauxhall Vectra -- who cares?"

I care!

If Saabs start to have Opel suspension systems, Opel air conditioners etc AND use the same architecture, then it's basically an Opel disguised as a Saab. Now I don't think Americans realize how crappy Opels are, because they aren't sold in the States. Yes they are made in Germany, but they are still complete crap IMO.

I'm not against sharing some basic components like floor pans. But if Saab loses it's engineering section, and starts to have unaltered Opel parts, I doubt very much that Saab will survive as a brand. The Saab 9-3SS is a great car, because Saab's engineers had a significant say in it's design from the bottom up, not because it shares components with other GM cars.

Bob Lutz sounds like he has no idea what he is dealing with. He needs to realize you don't make a great product by just making it as cheap as possible. Or we'd all be driving Hyundais or Ladas.

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• GM Europe to Get a Major Tune-Up, Ian Glenday , Mon, 17 May 2004 12:07:03
  • GM learned its lesson from "badge enginnering", Pete Saab 9-5, Tue, 18 May 2004 09:58:22
  • SAAB has done part sharing for years, compaqted, Tue, 18 May 2004 09:15:25
  • Move Open to Interpretation (Rumbling), Dan W, Mon, 17 May 2004 18:17:29
    • I agree, AdamB , Mon, 17 May 2004 22:04:10 <-- Viewing This Message
    • I hear ya, but cheaper doesn't always equal cheap, Scott Paterson , Mon, 17 May 2004 21:56:10
  • Re: GM Europe to Get a Major Tune-Up, blockhead, Mon, 17 May 2004 14:02:48
    • Re: GM Europe to Get a Major Tune-Up, jp, Mon, 17 May 2004 14:41:44

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