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Automotive News & Views Can GM make Cadillac the standard of the world Again?
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Replying to: sls002 (Nov 27, 2006 11:01 am)  Rocky |
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Replying to: sls002 (Nov 27, 2006 10:39 am)
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Replying to: lemko (Nov 27, 2006 11:45 am) Rocky |
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I was reading in the 07' Navigator forum of how some tried to justify why they traded in their 07' Escalade for a 07' Navigator.  I'm scratching my head and can only come up with this conclusion. They are chronic car buyers. They were trying to justify their car purchase because the Escalade didn't have power running boards. Well the Navigator, doesn't have a rear view camera, so what gives. The Navigator, also doesn't have the interior quality and materials of the Slade, either.  I guess if you want to get worse gas mileage, lose 103 hp. and not have a refined machine like the slade, then perhaps the swap can be justified by the few options the slade doesn't have for the many the Navigator doesn't have. Rocky
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Replying to: rockylee (Nov 27, 2006 12:51 pm) |
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"Standard of the World" implies leadership and something that everyone else (i.e., the competition) aspires to equal. Given GM's record for the past 30+ years, I find it impossible to believe that its corporate culture is capable of conceiving of, much less producing, anything that is the "standard of the world." Neither the UAW - or the beancounters - would ever stand for it. GM aspires to mediocrity, nothing more. It is a rental car producer, in slow decline due to union expense and featherbedding coupled with short-sighted management.
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Replying to: lemko (Nov 27, 2006 11:45 am)
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Replying to: thomasw (Nov 27, 2006 1:25 pm) |
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Replying to: thomasw (Nov 27, 2006 1:25 pm) Could your negative attitude have something to do with a bad experience with Saabs?
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Nov 27, 2006 1:34 pm) My terrible experience with a post-GM SAAB 2003 9-3 - an experience confirmed by Consumer Reports and others - did not create my poor opinion of GM, merely confirmed it. I worked for a multi-franchise car dealer from 1971-1996. Among their franchises (since the lates 1980's) was Cadillac / Oldsmobile and Chevrolet. What I saw was indifferent design, sloppy execution, sloppy assembly, cheesy interiors and "luck of the draw" reliability. In other words, vehicles clearly subject to beancounter final word and assembled by UAW hacks who couldn't care less, because they didn't think they had to (cheerfully oblivious as their numbers kept shrinking, their jobs being displaced by nonunion plants in the South). My experience with the 9-5 prompted me to take a chance, with some trepidation, on the 9-3 / Malibu / G-6. That experience taught me that not much has changed with GM since 1996, notwithstanding their current spin that they've "caught up" in quality. Any quick perusal of the black dots in Consumer Reports tells the real story ...
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