Geo allowed people who would never buy an asian car to get an asian car without having to have a Toyota or Suzuki.
My dad had a Chevy Tracker which was a re-badged Geo Tracker which was a re-badged Suzuki Grand Vitara. It was an EXCELLENT little truck, very good offroad and easy on gas. The Jeep Liberty that replaced it is NOT as good in any measurable way other than maybe its a little faster off the line. Until they screwed it up Saturn was a brilliant move, weird little cars that people loved in a no-pressure buying atmosphere. Saturn people loved Saturn, then they just made it like everything else at GM, same way they screwed up Saab. -Curt Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 11:51:35 -0600 From: Dieselhead <126die...@gmail.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] This is interesting Message-ID: <a062408f0cee76278f2a0@[192.168.1.52]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > > > >> What are you talking about? Nobody mentioned Saturn. The point was the >> hypocrisy of people in the '90s who said "Buy American" and then went to >> their Chevy dealer to buy a Geo (all of which were captive imports). >> > > Alex my thought has nothing to do with origin. I just never saw any need for the geo brand or the saturn brand. I think the industry consolidation lends credence to that view. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
