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This will likely get to be an extended thread!
Posted by Noel [Email] (more from Noel) on Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:12:44
In Reply to: Merry Christmas and Why I don't support a Saab boycott, Caarma [Profile/Gallery]
, Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:11:34
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I'm actually somewhat ambivalent about this. At the moment, if I was in the market for a car (and didn't buy a Saab), I wouldn't consider a GM product. But it has less to do with the corporate decision about Saab than it does with what GM has to sell. I think GM builds some decent mass-market cars, but I'm not a mass-market customer. They don't build anything I want to make payments on.
Some here won't like this, and I don't mean to offend, but although I appreciate the situation of the thousands of GM employees, they are (like Saab) the victims of both inept management. For many Michigan residents this poor management has been compounded by the actions of unions over time. There's plenty of blame to go around for their problems but few of them have much to do with Saab.
Altruism is fine virtue, but there are much better ways to do something positive --which are personally meaningful-- than prop up a company that makes products I don't like. If I do buy a GM product in the future, it is likely to be used, profit only the dealer from whom I buy it, with maybe some parts sales over time contributing a few bucks to GM. Absent Saab, the company simply fails to offer products I want.
And that's where the rubber meets the road.
Posts in this Thread:
- Merry Christmas and Why I don't support a Saab boycott, Caarma , Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:11:34
- We are at the point where..................., andym, Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:53:35
- I will NEVER buy a GM car as long as I breath.>>>, JackOSAAB , Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:03:42
- Re: Given the chance to buy a nice GMC vehicle..., Street, Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:19:33
- Re: Merry Christmas and Why I don't support a Saab boycott, AmsterSaab, Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:40:04
- After what I saw this weekend......, MI-Roger , Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:10:49
- Why I don't support a GM boycott, Caarma , Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:15:58
- If you think GM cars are worthless here's my challenge, NDS, Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:05:10
- Re: Why I will support a gm boycott, ehallii, Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:35:55
- Re: Merry Christmas and Why I don't support a Saab boycott, simul8guy, Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:30:29
- Re: Merry Christmas and Why I don't support Gm, LUKE, Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:56:18
- This will likely get to be an extended thread!, Noel, Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:12:44 <-- Viewing This Message
- buy a ford, fraero95, Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:46:10
- Why is it........., Herb Hirsch , Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:38:28
- Re: Merry Christmas and Why I don't support a Saab boycott, Tim, Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:18:54
- Re: Merry Christmas and Why I don't support a Saab boy, BAAB , Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:15:13
- Re: Merry Christmas and Why I don't support a Saab boycott, kkelley, Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:15:29
- Re: Merry Christmas and Why I don't support a Saab boy, rico567, Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:14:31
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