 OT: Saab filed for bankruptcy, Sign of the times. |
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| Mark Henry |
 Dec 19 2011, 11:47 AM
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that's what I do!  Group: Members Posts: 20,065 Joined: 27-December 02 From: Port Hope, Ontario Member No.: 26 Region Association: Canada  |
Swedish carmaker's Chinese investors fail to take over former GM company. Too bad, nice car at one time (Saab 99), but they couldn't compete. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/12...bankruptcy.html |
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| Steve |
Dec 21 2011, 06:51 PM
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I have worked in manufacturing, but I have never worked for a union. The sad part is our lovely media only has bad news and there are countless stories about finding beer bottles and poor construction in American cars and airplanes. Sad to say I have only bought one American car and it was a Ford Expedition. I guess that's considered a truck, but it ejected a spark plug out of the head. It had an extended warranty but Ford wouldn't cover it since it wasn't a moving part.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007...park_plugs.html Because of my experience with Ford and the nasty media, I will be very paranoid to ever trust an American car again. I forgot to mention that it was a 2003 Expedition with about 70k on the odometer. The spark plugs were installed by the factory. You only change them every 100k. There was another funny article that said the spark plugs change themselves!! A local mechanic said that Ford corrected the problem with a later model head, but since we were so unhappy with Ford not standing behind there product, we just had a helicoil put in and took it over to the Toyota dealer and traded it in on a Sequoia. Our Sequoia has over 200k miles on it and has never left my wife and kids stranded on the side of the road like the Expedition did on several occasions. Its hard to put a price on your family's safety. |
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Mark Henry OT: Saab filed for bankruptcy Dec 19 2011, 11:47 AM
flipb Been hoping against hope that they'd somehow s... Dec 19 2011, 12:00 PM SirAndy Saab filed for bankruptcy
What a surprise, didn... Dec 19 2011, 12:02 PM
Mark Henry
Saab filed for bankruptcy
What a surprise, didn... Dec 19 2011, 12:16 PM zymurgist Saab will be missed. Saab and Porsche both looked... Dec 19 2011, 12:02 PM r_towle I am kind of curious.
What happens to the new cars... Dec 19 2011, 12:48 PM minnesota loon I have 2008 2.0 turbo sport combi. I love it fast ... Dec 19 2011, 01:29 PM rick 918-S This is what should have happened to GM and Chrysl... Dec 19 2011, 01:38 PM Elliot Cannon
This is what should have happened to GM and Chrys... Dec 19 2011, 03:45 PM DBCooper
This is what should have happened to GM and Chry... Dec 19 2011, 05:06 PM rick 918-S
[quote name='Elliot Cannon' post='1591490' date='... Dec 19 2011, 08:11 PM DBCooper I started with Saab in a Type 96 and loved that ca... Dec 20 2011, 05:49 PM eric914
[quote name='Elliot Cannon' post='1591490' date='... Dec 22 2011, 09:03 AM DBCooper
With that thinking our government should never le... Dec 22 2011, 01:20 PM Vacca Rabite I'm closing this up.
If you have beef, you kno... Dec 22 2011, 04:01 PM 76-914 Yep, fine car. My wife and I had a 95 9000CSE Aero... Dec 19 2011, 02:19 PM eric9144 I'm surprised, that you guys are surprised...
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Saab has always been an "odd" make tha... Dec 19 2011, 05:55 PM zymurgist ILBT :popcorn: Dec 19 2011, 03:04 PM rick 918-S I'm spectulating here but I can only imagine t... Dec 19 2011, 03:30 PM RobW Cool cars back in the day. A maintenance nightmare... Dec 19 2011, 06:09 PM championgt1 :agree: Well said Rick. Dec 19 2011, 09:46 PM veltror Perhaps you guys need to read what happened to BLM... Dec 20 2011, 01:06 PM rick 918-S Just another Saab story. Same old thing. Save me, ... Dec 20 2011, 08:56 PM DBCooper How about the innocent stock holders. The investor... Dec 21 2011, 11:46 AM maf914 I had read that GM blocked the sale of SAAB to the... Dec 21 2011, 08:59 AM Elliot Cannon :agree: If you let a large company like GM go un... Dec 21 2011, 12:50 PM rick 918-S That's ok, you as an employee can loose as muc... Dec 21 2011, 02:36 PM Elliot Cannon
That's ok, you as an employee can loose as mu... Dec 21 2011, 05:12 PM 02loftsmoor Goverment Morors is the ones that ran SAAB into th... Dec 21 2011, 02:42 PM Scott Schroeder Rick -
You are not heartless - you are a realist t... Dec 21 2011, 06:16 PM Smitty911 Well we have come half circle from "Ask not w... Dec 21 2011, 06:25 PM rick 918-S I'm not sayin all union workers are slackers b... Dec 21 2011, 07:12 PM Elliot Cannon
I'm not sayin all union workers are slackers ... Dec 22 2011, 12:10 AM eric914
[quote name='rick 918-S' post='1592890' date... Dec 22 2011, 09:21 AM J P Stein
Cant argue with a certain % of any group being ba... Dec 22 2011, 09:55 AM DBCooper
On you dime. Like that? You and me bailed out the... Dec 22 2011, 07:30 AM flipb GM is simply better at finding investors than your... Dec 21 2011, 08:45 PM somd914 But will anything really change in the long run? ... Dec 21 2011, 09:01 PM rick 918-S Come on.. Ford? They were in trouble. They chose t... Dec 22 2011, 08:24 AM brp986s
And you certainly don't borrow money from som... Dec 22 2011, 11:41 AM |
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