Automobile Magazine's take..

[Lodro]

from their capsule reivews of 05 new cars.

"Saab appears to have gone about the job of making the Trailblazer its own with typical Swedish thoroughness..."

so far so good

"...there's something about a Saabified truck that makes us think GM is unwittingly turning this company into a kind of Euro-Oldsmobile"


Ouch!

[valbowski1980]

Sadly Saab was doing a good job of that even before GM.

[fabric]

Oldsmobile's last model cars were getting consistenyly good reviews. Excellent engines, nice drives. There V8 was basically a smaller northstar. Everytime I see an Aurora, I think it's a sharp looking car.

Sales weren't good, but that wasn't because the products were bad.

[Lodro]

Originally Posted by fabric

Oldsmobile's last model cars were getting consistenyly good reviews. Excellent engines, nice drives. There V8 was basically a smaller northstar. Everytime I see an Aurora, I think it's a sharp looking car.

Sales weren't good, but that wasn't because the products were bad.

Sales weren't bad, but that wasn't because their products were any good. :-D

Seriously, they had good volume, but they had no success shifting into demographics that GM had targetted them for. I think they weren't bad looking cars -- I actually think the Bravada is not bad looking -- but in no way shape or form were they competition for 'real' cars. Remember reading a review that the Aurora was crappy in a lot of real-world ways. They were living on their past and eventually ran out of that.