What it would look like if GM didnt kill Geo Saturn Hummer Oldsmobile Pontiac After 1997,2004 and 2010
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Personally, I think GMC, which isn't a whole lot different from Chevy should've gotten the ax.
What it would look like if GM didnt Geo Saturn Hummer Oldsmobile Pontiac After 1997,2004 and 2010
The Pod would have to be late 70's or early 80's to save Olds or Pontiac I feel. also personally as someone who family always drove Buick's I think them getting rid of the Skylark brand made them more generic. I agree on the Chevy part.
The Pod would have to be late 70's or early 80's to save Olds or Pontiac I feel. also personally as someone who family always drove Buick's I think them getting rid of the Skylark brand made them more generic. I agree on the Chevy part.
GMC is hideously profitable, since they're charging $3k more for a Chevy with a nicer interior that doesn't look like shit, and then there's the Denali packages. It'd be nice if they got some exclusive vehicles in the US, instead of just being rebadged Chevrolets. But Chevrolet is probably the worst thing that ever happened to GM organizationally since the bankruptcy, since everything not made by Adam Opel AG, or intended as a Cadillac, must be sold in some incarnation as a Chevy. It's really quite detrimental to the company as a whole.
Hummer was a brand that just no longer had products that were en vogue, which is why it got killed. Same as Geo maybe eleven years earlier. Incidentally, both of them only ever produced one good vehicle each. (The H3 truck and the Geo Storm.)
Saturn and Pontiac's memorable products at the end were basically just rebadged Opel and Holden vehicles, plus the Kappa twins. Keeping them wouldn't have been hard, but would've basically killed Buick, which was the exact same thing in China.
I’m still driving around a 2007 Saturn Vue. Mechanics often comment that they have a considerable amount of staying power despite being out of production for so long - I find that to be true because you can find so many on the road still. If they had just kept the brand for a couple more years through the worst of the recession they probably could’ve become poor man’s Subaru or something to that effect