Question about GM

URtalking2CRASH · 09-07-2002, 01:50 AM

ok If GM is now stepping back into saturn's "LIFE" then why aren't saturns featured in GM's commercials????? They show Chevy, Pontiac, Cadillac, GMC, Buick, Olds, they KEEP forgetting saturns. GRRR

brettmeyers · 09-07-2002, 03:05 AM

I have seen a few commercials with Saturn, but the comercials you are prob. seeing are the ones on the rebates or 0% APR and such. And Saturn isn't offering these discounts.

URtalking2CRASH · 09-07-2002, 03:10 AM

actually saturn is offering their 0% financing on their 2002's and 2003 models. I saw a commercial for it. It just gets me that GM is taking control again over saturn in a way, but yet it hasn't made an effort to say to the public "HEY LOOK SATURN IS APART OF OUR GM FAMILY"

brettmeyers · 09-07-2002, 03:16 AM

I guess they still would just like to stay far enough away for now... its hard to understand why they do many things, like I don't really understand why they still make products with Toyota..

URtalking2CRASH · 09-07-2002, 03:25 AM

i guess so Brett, but i still think if GM is gonna "run" things then they should be Including Saturn in with the rest of the family. Funny thing. I went to the All GM Nationals at Carlisle and my car and Kevin's were there. I actually heard two guys walking by to judge the cars the one said to the other..."what is a saturn doing here, that's not a GM car." when his friend was quick to correct him said,"yeah it is a GM car and so is Saab." I just fin it funny. I've actually heard people who think Saturn is an Import. Now that one is really funny. Then you tell people GM and their like WTF?

CelticShadow · 09-07-2002, 03:29 AM

It doesn't make much sense to me either, especially now, since they gave Saturn corp, the entire amount of leftover money from Olds. They should recognize Saturn as a BIG part of the GM family. I mean, just about every Saturn owner, and a large number of people who don't own Saturns know that it's part of GM, so why not just advertise it?

URtalking2CRASH · 09-07-2002, 03:33 AM

exactly mikey, I don't understand why they still advertise Oldsmobile.... but apparently they are keeping the Alero cause that's the car in the advertisement....they should just make the Alero a Buick and be done with it.

URtalking2CRASH · 09-07-2002, 03:33 AM

I like the look of the alero alot, they should keep that one and get rid of the rest.

CelticShadow · 09-07-2002, 03:43 AM

I think by 2004 the Alero is gonna be either gone completely, or snatched up by either Pontiac or Buick.

monkeyracing · 09-07-2002, 03:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brettmeyers

...I don't really understand why they still make products with Toyota..

Probably because it saves them money doing joint engineering in product, and they end up getting a better car to sell. You can't discount Toyota's record on reliability.

Other companies parts you might find in a GM vehicle: Toyota, Saab, Audi, Suzuki, Isuzu, and more.

Other companies using GM or Delco parts: pretty much all of them. I've seen GM air conditioning systems in Audis, Chev brakes on Suzuki, and until recently GM supplied transmissons for Rolls Royce/Bentley, and Jaguar. I've even seen Ford and Chrysler product with GM bits.

Jim