ZL-1
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1. The issue is very straightforward: GM doesn't know how to manage a brand like SAAB, as they wouldn't know how to manage a brand like MINI. GM's been all about volume and discounting. 2. For SAAB fans like myself it makes the part I bolded is almost funny, in a perverse way. I really hope SAAB is able to find a new owner soon, leaving GM's incompetence in managing it behind. For good!
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Over the weekend, an Aston Martin V8 Vantage Roadster =
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It'd be 5 sedans total: Aveo, Cruze, Malibu, Caprice, and RWD Impala... the 4 FWD sedan thing seems a bit too much, but Toyota does it with the Yaris, Corolla, Camry and Avalon, and ford will do it with the Fiesta, Focus, Fusion, and Taurus... if economically viable, I'd see the RWD Impala as a flagship in price, but smaller than the Caprice and parallel to the bread-and-butter 4 FWD-based sedans. I'd expect sales similar to the G8.Taking the Buick = Opel all the way: would a Buick roadster (a new Reatta) make sense to anyone?I'd only worry if they were f@#king rabbitsSo.... if I see a pig sneeze should I run away or check myself into a mental-health institution?SWB Ep2 = Malibu LWB Ep2 = Caprice Alpha sedan = Impala That could work.. wonder about the current Impala's fleet %, though... as I was writing my 1st reply to the thread I kept wondering if what's keeping the W-body Impala alive are fleet sales...Given what the Impala has become in recent years, I agree. Malibu could be the new SWB Ep2 sedan (NG Epica) and Impala will be LWB Ep2 like the new LaCrosse. Assuming offering 3 FWD sedans and one RWD sedan isn't sedan overkill, Chevrolet could dig up some other name from its history for its Commodore. Chevelle, maybe?Yay, no silly dealer installed pin stripes on this one!The Insignia is an excellent effort, especially in a segment with tons of company car sales and dominated by poverty spec 3-series and c-class mercedes (which are not offered in the US). Re the Astra, it would also have helped if you guys didn't get it so far into its life cycle, and if certification money had gone into the 180hp 1.6L turbo instead of the 140hp 1.8L engine.That's 2.5 years of soccer mom EXCITEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Routan is to be axed, apparently.A bit morbid, but that made meRusty Cage - Johnny CashEverything points that way. It will almost be a US Government-sponsored asset stripping: take the good assets out, regroup them as a new entity and let the bad pieces rot away. The potentially good pieces for which there is no space in the new structure (i.e., Saturn and SAAB) are sold off. Stuff like I what I read on saabsunited.com, about how people are now openly saying that it were GM corporate overhead charges that made both SAAB and Opel/Vauxhall lose money over all of these years, trully amaze me... apparently, removing GM's overhead charges and adding a fully independent structure would allow SAAB to have its breakeven point (earnings-wise) at around 130K units/year, a target SAAB could easily reach if the 9-5 wasn't as old as a dinossaur and the 9-3 wasn't based on a 10-year old Vectra... I wonder what performing the same exercise on top of Opel's accounts would yield...I find it funny too. My prediction is still that GME (w/o SAAB), GMDAT+Holden and good-GMNA (i.e., Chevrolet-Buick-Cadillac) will regroup as a new-GM.So... 1990's: Pontiac is Excitement 2000's: Pontiac is car 2010's: Pontiac is deadI'd do the same here in Lisbon, but the weather is cold and cloudy...
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