The question is why didn’t all the boy genius MBA’s realize they could roll Buick into Cadillac and sell them in the showroom as the mid-price entry point branded as Buick. The same as Lasalle used to be?

The answer is they were all too busy looking to protect their Good-Ole-Boy network and power and inventing scapegoats for the reason they bankrupted what was the world’s largest auto company. Once upon a time. They blame the Unions, dealers, the press, taxes, and the weather. Never do you hear that the people running the company were idiots. They are all still there doing the same old dance! More arrogant than ever and now “blessed” by the Government supplying a bottomless checkbook and running interference.

What the heck? How is it that the geniuses in charge with the monster paychecks failed to notice what apparently every outsider who got to see the Buick Vue called right off the bat? There is nothing new about GM putting a lot of time and money into a project only to suddenly cancel it. What a wasteful corporate culture. The question isn’t why was the Buick Vue canceled. The question is why it got that far in the first place.

I’m with GM on this. I’m certain that part of a Buick’s appeal in China is that it’s “American” just like a Buick over here. I’m quite certain that having “upscale” Buick US helps sell Buick China.

I’m no China expert but I did visit it this summer. There’s a lot of attraction for things and people American.

So the ideal would be to have two Buick’s in america (a riviera and park avenue type car to sell to whats left of thier market) that would allow them to keep the cache and sell to whats left of thier market in america. But those cars would step on Caddy and wouldn’t support GMC/Buick dealers.

It scares me that any corporation of this (or any) size (even one in need of such overhaul as GM)would make such desicions based on a source with the average intelligence level as the internet (even if you excluded that marvelous brainpower pool that is Twitter).”

Even an average intelligence is higher than the people in charge of GM.

Who cares? If China wants to buy Buicks, then keep the brand alive in China. There’s no reason to keep Buick in North America for China’s sake. You may as well say they need to sell Chevrolets and Cadillacs in Europe because the brands are somewhat popular in the US. Oh, wait…

On a serious note, can someone explain to me why whenever Buick is proposed for the axe, we justify it by saying it’s big in China? Is it’s being big in China really somehow predicated on it’s miserable existence on this continent?

I’ve always thought GM should get back to “standard” (Chevrolet) and “deluxe” (Cadillac). Convert the Chinese market to Cadillac.

“it didn’t fit the premium characteristics that customers have come to expect from Buick”

And more bullshit.

It’s this sort of delusion that led to GM’s problems. As in: The G6 competes head to head with the Accord, or Pontiac is poised to be a BMW challenger.

What a joke. They can do whatever they want with what’s left of the company. I’m afraid the writing is on the wall.

OK, does the Volt “fit the cost-effective characteristics that customers have come to expect from Chevrolet”? NO.

Will the Converj “fit the performance-luxury characteristics that customers have come to expect from Cadillac”? NO.

Hey, GM, if you want to show that you are truly “new”, then you’ll kill these crazy ideas right now.

Like, you know, shitcanning, for gross incompetence, everyone from Lutz and LaNeve on down?

if they were to make a rebadged srx/equinox/terrain buick there is no point making another compact cuv (vue).

but what buffles me is, why the hell did they introduce the srx/equinox/terrain when they already had a compact cuv (Saturn vue/opel antara/chevrolet captiva in europe)?

while the srx looks great, and (my personal opinion) the terrain isnt that bad, the equinox sux immensly, kinda fat ass mercedes ml (from behind) but retarded in growth so it looks heavy n sh1t, i think the vue/antara/captiva would be a better option.

GM would have been best served to go into total silence mode and instead of all of the concepts of the 20 somethingish cars they are going to come out with two years from now (maybe), they should have waited and at one time hold a press conference and display the models and when someone asked if they would actually be produced, say “There on the assembly line now”.

John

on a related note for those of you who want a taste of the junket life for the 2010 SRX rollout—–

http://www.cadillacofcrossovers.com/

register and get there early to avoid standing in line behind the 18 year olds and poseurs, lol.