Car shopping

I walked into an Audi dealer to look at the A3.
Manual transmission, of course.
The salesman's response: "Why?"
and I'm thinking "because the design looks interesting"
So he proceeded to try and sell me an A4.
His sales pitch:
"Look around, you'll see them everywhere."
Which makes me think:
"Thanks, but not so much...."
Seriously.
Do you want a car that everyone else drives?

Their ad campaigns don't help.
Yes, of course you are being "told" to drive a minivan,
or a Mercedes
or a Lexus
But what you really want is the car that's growing in sales faster than any of them.
And that's an Audi.
So you can be like everyone else.
And drive the same car like everyone else.
Black, of course.
Unless you're edgy and you buy red.

Whatever.
I guess I just don't like doing what everyone else does.
...which is why I twitter and blog (^_^)

GM kills Saab

GM deserves to be dead.

Their pulse was gone.

They were walking into the light.

Until the generosity of the American taxpayer

pulled them out of their death throes

and gave them mouth to mouth.

Now Ed Whitacre

the CEO of GM

is administering the coup de grace

to SAAB

with a bloodthirsty grin on his 

greedy face.

Never mind that offers are made

to save the car maker.

Yet GM claims they are not legitimate

and make excuses for why they can't sell.

Instead they will just kill a brand that has true followers

and is shown real love.

The simple truth:

Whitacre hates that none of his own homegrown brands:

Chevrolet

Cadillac

Buick

GMC

is ever shown such support.

"How can anyone support a foreign brand" he asks himself, sitting in his silk pajamas in his multimillion dollar mansion, "when we've got these homegrown brands."

Never mind that they are all dull, boring, and uninspired.

Underpowered automatics driven by brainless hillbillies.

No one ever puts a Calvin pissing on a Volvo logo on their Saab, do they?

Face it. Ed Whitacre is not homeless because at the moment of death, his company received a misguided transfusion of funds from the largesse of the American people vis a vis the US government.

But now he and his team are about to make 3400+ employees of Saab suffer the fate he was spared.