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And to think I almost bought a Saturn

Posted on June 7, 2009 | Comments Off on And to think I almost bought a Saturn

The Saturn was as close as I ever got to buying a GM product. Thank goodness I didn’t:

"…why Saturn flopped: The company had built a popular brand as a sort of feel-good anti-car–vaguely tractor-like, noisy, but made of semi-indestructible plastic by dedicated Tennessee workers and–unique in nearly all of GM–actually reliable. GM threw all this away and filled Saturn showrooms with cars designed to appeal to totally different buyers: rebadged mainstream Opels. They were OK, but creepily overstyled and not so reliable. End of explanation."

I drove a Ford pickup and a Jeep Cherokee, but otherwise have stuck to Volkswagens and Hondas. Whew.

Via Instapundit.

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Adios, Pontiac, et al

Posted on April 29, 2009 | Comments Off on Adios, Pontiac, et al

My memories of Pontiacs date back to the chrome behemoths of my childhood in the late ’50s, the ones with a choke on the dashboard, not the look-all-the-same, jelly-bean cars of the past few decades. Never bought one. Drove one once or twice as a rental.

Won’t miss ’em, or the Hummers mentioned here. Or the Saturns, which I considered buying but never did. Going to be amusing watching the bureaucrats and the autoworkers’ union leaders drive GM into the dumper. For philisophical or practical reasons their cars will be pariahs now. Course, wouldn’t be so amusing if I owned a Suburban, or a Tahoe, or one of their pickups. Fortunately, I have a Honda.

Via Instapundit.

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