Graham S1

Wow, what do we make of this? According to this GM is cutting off a load of it's production. Bye bye to Saturn (not sold here?), Saab, Pontiac ( <-Genuine tears), Hummer ().

Well, the brands could survive, if bought out by someone. Swedish government buy Saab? Maybe the Chinese might buy a few brands to expand their empire?

http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/sm...ab-hummer.aspx

And this is after asking for MORE bailout money.

cossie604

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Mint, GM is selling off Pontiac but choosing to keep vauxhall....wait till I see my mate with the Transam later down pub, see how much I can wind him

Rhys

Is this where you get facts from? Its not certain that is going to happen yet

Though tbh i hate the fact these companies ask for bailouts, if any govt helps fund them. Then they take a share or even a loan that must be paid back with interest.

Graham S1

you obviously didn't read the article. is it a duff source?

OMFG it's a conspiracy!!!!!



Are you going to join in the discussion, on how maybe it might affect our favourite brand too, or continue to take the piss every time I post, because a few years ago, I had a small interest in a major event?

cossie604

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calm down dear

dojj

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what happens to the cars once they stop making them?
will they go the way of rover with values dropping through the floor and insurance companies writing them off when you get a wing mirror knocked off?

RC4

The swedish government aint bailing saab out,was on the news here,sweden,today
i,ve got a few mates who have just bought new saabs

Rhys

No i just read same type of article in other sources and said that this was on the table as options and not yet set in stone Imo scare mongering in some respect, as kinda above GM would love for Swedish Govt. to buy Saab to keep their workers in employment etc. And take a headache from GM. But good on Swedish govt for not playing these games.

Is though times for car makers atm. And tbh would anyone miss the above brands if they did go? Not really......

Pontiac was very cool back in the hey day, but omg they are shocking now imo.

mechanic28

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saturn is over in america!they had just released the saturn astra(H) over there in august!

Rhys

Yeah seen they was taken the Astra over.

Just looking at new Saabs now, and no wonder they are selling very well. Not exactley cheap Plus you hardly see any nowadays. Not surprising at the price, most people would go for German counterpart,

Twellsie

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i can see the american goverment doing something about Hummer, bearing in mind how much their army uses them

Psycho Warren

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The US army still mostly uses the early hummer not the commercial ones so theyd just buy out the plant if it came to it and ditch the on road side of hummer.

As long as ford survive, vauxhall can burn

Graham S1

What do they own they could/would get shod of though?

mechanic28

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cosworth


yes i do know the only own a small part of it

westus1

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dont realy think it'd be such a bad thing if saab went tbh
i used to work for a vauxhall/isuzu franchise,
then we ditched isuzu and brought in saab,
and i got told i was going into the saab team
fuck that i thought, time for a new job
started my new/current job a week later

jammy86

Not wat they said on the news earlier. Said they are selling Opel too.

JAmes.

dojj

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didn't the humvee start off as a military vehicle anyway?
arnie "governator" schwarzenegger made it a "car" so the original military thing would still be going ahead anyway

but with the "O" man wanting to end the bush's "war on trrrrrrrrr", what's going to happen to them vehicles?

can't they just blow them up in tf3?