Ding Dong, The Wicked Hummer is Dead!

[boulder_bum]

Denver Car Gear Examiner: R.I.P. Saturn & Hummer and in intensive care Saab & Pontiac

GM is looking for a buyer for the brand and if it doesn't sell in a month and a half, it's apparently dead! Woo hoo!

Also, GM and Chrysler need another bagillion dollars to stay in business.

[PriuStorm]

If we, the taxpayers, are going to be thinking about handing out another bagillion dollars to anyone, I hope we give it to companies like Aptera, Tesla, Phoenix Motorcars, etc.... companies starting with a clean slate, who can learn from the egregious errors of the GM way.

[hootowlroad]

Amen

[hyo silver]

Reinvestment in public transportation would be a good idea, too.

[Boo]

No tears here for Hummer or Saturn.

A couple of tears of nostalgia for Pontiac if it goes.

Many more tears for Saab if the Swedish government doesn't buy it. Personally, I'd like to see ownership of Saab and/or Volvo returned to the Swedes. I think we could use more of that Swedish sensibility in autos that was demonstrated for decades in the safety advances made by Saab and Volvo.

[PriuStorm]

Originally Posted by Boo

Many more tears for Saab if the Swedish government doesn't buy it. Personally, I'd like to see ownership of Saab and/or Volvo returned to the Swedes. I think we could use more of that Swedish sensibility in autos that was demonstrated for decades in the safety advances made by Saab and Volvo.

Hear, hear. I always thought it was a mistake to dilute the strong Volvo name by selling it to Ford.

[emeticmedic]

Originally Posted by Boo;

Many more tears for Saab if the Swedish government doesn't buy it. Personally, I'd like to see ownership of Saab and/or Volvo returned to the Swedes. I think we could use more of that Swedish sensibility in autos that was demonstrated for decades in the safety advances made by Saab and Volvo.

I agree. I'm in the process of selling a '94 Saab 900s now that I FINALLY found my Prius. I can't complain because it was a great car for me over the course of the 8 years and 80,000 miles that I put on it, but I definitely think GM did a huge disservice to the brand.

After I watched Who Killed The Electric Car it made me never want to by a GM product again. And after my wife was broadsided by a Chevy Tahoe that demolished her car, it makes my blood boil to see these behemoths on the road. Good riddance to them all. That's the only silver lining of this economy, is that it's the only thing that will get people to change their habits.

[ceric]

Ex-Acer CEO said to a reporter in an interview on Taiwan's attempt to bail out its DRAM companies in trouble ...
"Any company that has no technology superiority and competitiveness is not worth saving..."

[Prius 07]

"Hummer dead" - I thought along those lines too but look what is at the current Auto Show in Toronto ...
http://priuschat.com/forums/2010-toy...-feb-14th.html
HMMM - not so dead ... GM: "Green by Design"

[patsparks]

Yeah, I thought that was pretty funny.