Re: [Amc-list] a few more dealerships

[Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>]

Camaro and Firebird competed some against each other, but they also 
competed against the Mustang. Putting the cars under two nameplates and 
giving them slight variations in theme and tune does get a few more 
customers, and the expensive stuff is shared, relatively inexpensive 
items differentiate the two. So there is some good reasoning behind 
sharing a body with maybe one other division. Ford does the same with 
the Ford Taurus/Mercury Sable (don't think they call the Merc Sable 
anymore though). The Merc is just a little plusher than a Taurus. In my 
mind the whole of GM has been mis-managed, along with (but to a lesser 
extent) Ford and Chrysler. Some of the top execs need to go for that! 
They have way too many execs, and their "golden parachute" contracts are 
ludicrous. They all need to declare bankruptcy so the contracts can be 
re-negotiated to something more reasonable, but I suspect that's EXACTLY 
why the execs don't want to go that route -- THEIR ludicrous contracts 
would be up doe renegotiation! They don't care about the company, mostly 
themselves. But that's just my opinion, and not based on any researched 
facts. -------- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:34:14 -0700 From: Victor the 
Cleaner <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxx> 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?

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