R more car brands heading like OLDSMOBILE?

[Little6pack]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10617131/

There is a poll vote & Buick leads as the #1 canidate.

 

[smokin'6]

Its sad, soon there will be even less choices in an already slim pickings market. Cars now most all look the same, Ugly! I voted for Isuzu

 

[TR Custom Parts]

I would say Buick is on borrowed time.

 

[turbofish38]

Man, you guys need stop reading the dribble the leftest press is publishing these days. Here is a copy and paste from a speech Bob Lutz did back on 3-31-05 shortly after the leftest press misqouted him about possibly eliminating Buick and Pontiac.
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Honestly, some of this media coverage has been so bad it should be accompanied by parental warning labels…

I’m not saying we don’t deserve any criticism. We do. But I must say… some of it does feel like “piling on” of late.

So I’d like to take the opportunity here today to talk about the state of General Motors, address some of these issues, and show you some of our new products.

First of all, let me discuss the recent uproar about our brands. We are fervently supporting all our brands. We have robust future product plans for all our brands. We have rock-solid faith in all our brands.

Over the course of the past year or more, each member of GM’s senior management team has said time and time again that we are working to revamp and redefine our brands… all our brands.

And yet, as you may have heard, I gave an honest, straightforward answer to a very pointed, specific question last week, and suddenly we have all these unfortunate headlines.

If all you know about it is what you read in the papers and saw on TV… you’d think I was personally turning out the lights and padlocking the door at GM headquarters for good.

I said if a brand — any brand — consistently underperformed over many years and couldn’t turn itself around, we might find ourselves in a position where we’d have to look at a phase-out.

That’s all. I didn’t say it was inevitable, or that we had plans to do any such thing. I was speaking hypothetically.

In clear, non-hypothetical terms: We’re not discussing the elimination of any brand.

We’re investing more than ever in product and marketing programs to build all our brands, increase sales and improve the value of our dealer franchises. There is nothing wrong with any of our brands that excellent sustained sales performance won’t fix.

That said, the auto industry will report March sales results tomorrow. While I can’t get into real specifics, I can tell you we are closing a solid sales month today.


I'm taking that to mean as long as Buick is selling cars than the name will stay around.

 

[Little6pack]

Lutz speech is like a politican SMOKE & MIRRORS.

Anyway I voted for IZUZU too.. The poll doesn't lie it is like a market research.

 

[turbofish38]

Lutz speech is like a politican SMOKE & MIRRORS.

Anyway I voted for IZUZU too.. The poll doesn't lie it is like a market research.

Ya, but the point is made about anything coming out of Detriot is being twisted by the left wing press. Bob Lutz was not lying. Its not the automotive industry that is playing politics but the its the press that is making them a political issue.

Oh,jeez. Now I suppose this is going to get bumped to the political views forum.

If you believe in conspiracy theories than you would know that the ousting of Oldsmobile was just an expieriment to see how far GM could go before they lost money and market share. I would say they learned their lesson. And so did DCX when they offed Plymouth.

 

[turbofish38]

Anyway I voted for IZUZU too.. The poll doesn't lie it is like a market research.

Copy and Paste:After a dramatic drop in market share, rumor is Japan’s Isuzu is poised to withdraw from the U.S. market. It reportedly will cancel its seven-passenger Ascender SUV, shown here, when its investment partner GM closes an assembly plant in Oklahoma City this February. The Ascender, built at the GM plant, accounts for about a third of total U.S. sales.

That has to be worst poll ever posted. First look at the source, Rueters. Man that has to be a poll about one persons opinions, the writer. I'll use the Isuzu paragraph as an example. Lets see, you have one assembly line kicking out 5 brands of one model. WOW Isuzu's sales must be up to account for a third of OKC's production. Now I'm thinking something is screwy here so I go to check VINs at autotrader.com and guess what I find. About 10% or 1 in 10 Ascenders are built in OKC.The other 90% are built in Loraine Ohio. I'm telling you guys left wing dribble at is best. Maybe you should try one of the Detriot based automotive news only journals if you want to read about the truth instead of biased opinions and lies. Rant over. Its 6 o'clock and time for me to go home.