Subaruvanagoneers might be interested... Looks like USA is going to get Subarus with Saab badges. GM wants the Impreza WRX to badge "Saab 9-2"; Subaru thought it meant the pain-jane Impreza, and refuses to let GM use its WRX. The Legacy may also end up with Saab badges in USA. Smacks of GM buying Toyota Corollas and marketing them as Chevrolet Novas, Geo Storms, Holden Apollos... It is possible that Subaru might supply floorpans for Saab to add its own bodies too, but if the Saab version of the GM Trailblazer is anything to go by, I'd bet on its buying the whole car and just screwing its badges onto them. Who agrees that such badge-engineering stinks? Well, if Subaru (in which GM is a very minor shareholder) was given control of Saab, it might mean that AT LAST Saab can make good cars, not the Opel-based dungers it presently makes (its own home-grown efforts were pretty awful too). -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin, New Zealand 64 (3) 473-8863 <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Fossil preparator Seashell, Macintosh & VW/Toyota van nut |
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