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Vehicles That Drove GM to Bankruptcy

By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 1, 2009 5:45 PM CDT
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(Newser) – With the move finally official, Matt Hardigree, for Jalopnik, lists the 10 vehicles that bankrupted General Motors:

  • Chevrolet SSR: “Meant to capture the imagination of buyers. Unfortunately, few buyers were imagining an expensive, gas-guzzling convertible truck that …was basically unusable as a truck."
  • Saturn L-Series: Trying “to pass off an old Opel platform as the new Saturn … was a failure, much like the Saturn brand itself.”

  • Hummer H2: When gas prices started to rise the idea of spending $65,000 for a truck that gets 10 MPG seemed ridiculous and the Hummer brand came to represent everything wrong with US automakers.
  • Subaru 9-2x “Saabaru”: Slapping a Saab logo on Subaru’s WRX “was the representation of a company with an unclear mission.”
  • Cadillac Escalade EXT: Truck version of popular SUV was “based on a truck platform for luxury buyers, who never wanted or needed a truck in the first place.”
For the full list, click the link below.

Hummer H2.
Hummer H2.   (Flickr)
The Chevrolet SSR concept truck.
The Chevrolet SSR concept truck.   (Flickr)
Hummers lined up at an Ohio dealership.
Hummers lined up at an Ohio dealership.   (AP Photo)
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Observer
Jun 2, 2009 2:41 AM CDT
Why not go back and confiscate the homes and offshore accounts of the dumbf__k senior executives that approved these monstrosities. There was 25 years of poor leadership yet those dicks are partying in St. Tropez and Aspen drinking Dom from some whore's shoe. Real justice.

 
bankruptcy • General Motors • Saturn • Saab • Subaru • Chevrolet SSR • Hummer H2 • Cadillac Escalade EXT

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