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- From: sahul@loading-zone.Stanford.EDU (Zakir H. Sahul)
- Subject: Re: saturn/OLDs speculation
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.003315.1025@EE.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: sahul@loading-zone (Zakir H. Sahul)
- Organization: Stanford University
- References: <1992Nov4.162124.26981@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 00:33:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov4.162124.26981@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, rjwade@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J. Wade) writes:
- |> automotive news reports that OLDsmobile management is heading down to
- |> saturn to learn the saturn way of doing business...OLDs sales have
- |> plumeted from over a million in 1986 to roughly 435k last year...
- |>
- |> i'd guess there is a good chance that saturn gets approval for building
- |> larger cars with new v6s etc and that OLDsmobile gets absorbed into
- |> saturn giving them the additional dealer network and manufacturing
- |> facilities they need for these new vehicles.
- |> anyone care to comment on this???
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- Most likely saturn will get absorbed into OLDs and there go all the strides
- saturn has made in producing a quality automobile. (I hope it does not happen
- though!)
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- These "absorption" things should be thought of as collisions of big planets with
- small planets. The big planets might get big dents in them but the small
- planets....well, let's just say MASS is not in their favor.
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