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Reality check!
Posted by Noel [Email] (more from Noel) on Sun, 4 Jan 2009 13:42:57
In Reply to: Betrayal by GM, Chris Hansel, Fri, 2 Jan 2009 12:20:17
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GM is huge company that, like most huge companies, has long since fallen into the trap of not caring about its customers. After all, the feeling goes, if you lose one customer there are lots more to take his/her place. An illusion of course, but it's one that's worked for a long time, even as market share contracted and former customers went away. Arrogance, not caring, taking dumb pills, whatever.
So even if every Saab owner in the country wrote to Rick Wagoner and said, "We're gone forever if you kill Saab," he'd say, "So? And your point is?" Megadollar companies don't make decisions based on feelings of the owners of an unprofitable brand.
IMO, GM already has the engineering and other IP they wanted from Saab and see little reason to continue the brand under its corporate umbrella. I sincerely hope they will sell it to someone who can do maintain the brand, but it will never be the Saab of days gone by when being unique was sufficient for success.
Posts in this Thread:
- Betrayal by GM, Chris Hansel, Fri, 2 Jan 2009 12:20:17
- Reality check!, Noel, Sun, 4 Jan 2009 13:42:57 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: Betrayal by GM, TML , Sun, 4 Jan 2009 09:00:18
- Reality of the matter in 2009, TG, Sat, 3 Jan 2009 13:18:55
- The answer is, as it has always been, Benji, Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:21:06
- Re: Betrayal by GM-we new Saab buyers are toast, anthonySF, Fri, 2 Jan 2009 20:40:57
- I'm with you, man, B Millar , Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:21:26
- Re: I'm with you, man, KevinM, Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:50:58
- Re: I'm with you, man, B Millar , Fri, 2 Jan 2009 17:12:06
- Re: I'm with you, man, TG, Sat, 3 Jan 2009 07:39:38
- B Millar, Recovering Volvophile, Sat, 3 Jan 2009 06:37:55
- Re: I'm with you, man, burlybryan, Fri, 2 Jan 2009 22:06:03
- Re: Betrayal by GM, KevinM, Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:57:50
- No Saab? I'll buy a Subaru. n/m, Aero~0657, Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:02:59
- Re: Betrayal by GM, Recovering Volvophile, Fri, 2 Jan 2009 14:03:15
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