Re: [Amc-list] [BaadAssGremlins] Re: a few more dealerships

[Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Personaly I always have considered GM to be like some of the dealers and other businedd owners out and about.
They start out making a few items or doing a few things and it works. They start to branch out.
Making or offering more and more items. Instead of securing there nitch they go for it ALL.

They over extend and get to big and lose sight of their origins.
They want everything, every market covered.

I have seen it local quite a few times now! 
Dealer goes from used cars to new cars, then they start gathering up every brand they can snag!
They get ever progressively larger, then seemingly overnight the brands dissapear and soon they are selling one or two lines, or none.

The difference in the outcome seems to be many years longer for GM than the smaller outfits.
But if they are not careful may be exactly the same.

Mark Price
Morgantown, WV 26508
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
"I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens!"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor the Cleaner" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 5:34:14 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Amc-list] [BaadAssGremlins] Re: a few more dealerships

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 05:25:18PM -0500, Matt Haas wrote:
 
> Pontiac (and Saturn to a certain extent) is pretty much suffering the 
> same fate Olds did. There wasn't enough product differentiation for 
> people to spend more on them than another comparable GM (or other 
> manufacturer) car. In Olds's case, they mostly competed against Buick 
> and Buick had more sales so Olds was given the ax. Also, introducing 
> something like the Aztek and how they botched the GTO re-introduction 
> builds a pretty good case for how mis-managed they were.

Y'think?  I mean, what did the Firebird and Camaro ever compete against
besides each other?

jl

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