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buying a foreign US car is always risky
Posted by Harry (more from Harry) on Wed, 5 Oct 2005 08:16:31
In Reply to: Wow...GM is selling its stake in Subaru to Toyota!, Brian, Wed, 5 Oct 2005 05:04:18
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I consider a foreign US car a low volume foreign car sold in the US under a US name. Examples include Mercury Capri, Merkur Scorpio, Merkur XR4Ti, Pontiac GTO, Opel Kadett at Buick dealers, etc. The 9-2X almost qualifies (except SAAB is not a traditional US name).
These kind of cars are always suspect of being yanked. True, the car you buy will be supported for a couple of years. However, if you want to drive the car for 15 years, it's not as nice to have the car discontinued and not sold in the US.
If the 9-2X sold well, I wouldn't be surprised if Toyota and GM would market the car for 2007 and 2008 and maybe a year or two longer. However, since the 9-2X isn't selling well, I would expect either an early death or just plodding along until there is some change to the WRX, at which time, the 9-2X dies.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Wow...GM is selling its stake in Subaru to Toyota!, Brian, Wed, 5 Oct 2005 05:04:18
- It is really ugly at the General...., MI-Roger
, Wed, 5 Oct 2005 08:30:33 - buying a foreign US car is always risky, Harry, Wed, 5 Oct 2005 08:16:31 <-- Viewing This Message
- The 9-6 is dead - reported in WSJ /nm, Nathaniel, Wed, 5 Oct 2005 05:53:47
- no more FHI based 9-2 in the future, that's for sure NM, Canadian_Saab, Wed, 5 Oct 2005 05:41:18
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